THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE

AZHAR AYYUB & SHAHBAZ AFZAL

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE & EKISTICS
JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA
Guided By : Ar. Mushahid Anwar
 The Energy and resources institute
• The Energy and resources institute
earlier known as Tata Energy
Resources Institute.
Project details
• Site location : Haryana at GUAL PAHARI
• Site area : 36 hectares
• Climate : Composite
• Building type : Institutional
• Architects : Sanjay Prakash and Teri
• Year of start/completion :1997–2000

A powerful and effective combination of

modern science and traditional knowledge.
INTELLIGENT BUILDING CRITERIA
 FACTORS AFFECTING CRITERIAS OF INTELLIGENT
BUILDING
1) CR - Construction Requirement
• SLCM - Sourcing Local Construction Materials
• EUW - Efficient Use of Water
• WEL - Water Efficient Landscaping
• MT - Materials: ash bricks, aluminium , frames,
glass, Low VOC paint, and CRI certified Carpeting
2) EC - Environnent Control EC
• QUDL - Optimum Use of Day Light
• MAQ-Maintaining Air Quality
• NAF - Natural Air Flow
• HU - Handling Unit
ULCL - Use of LED and CFL Lighting ULCL
3) WM - Water Management
• RWH - Rain Water Harvesting
• WEPF - Water Efficient Plumbing and Fixtures
• WTR & MD - Water Treatment, Recycling &
Minimal Disposal
 CONTINUE
5) IBA - Intelligent Building Aspects
• EEBS - Energy Efficient Building Services
• IM - Information Management
• BAS - Building Automation System
• SI - System Integration
• CWS & ND - Communication Wiring System & Network Design
• FM - Facility Management
• IBT & D - Intelligent Building Technology & Design
• TM - Technology Management

6) IBM-Integrating Building Management

• EM - Energy Management
• AM - Alarm Monitoring
• HS - HVAC System
• PSS - PLC SCADA Software
• LC - Lighting Control
• LM - Lift Management
ELEMENT OF INTELLIGENT BUILDING
 GEOMETRY OF THE BLOCK
• The north block is made slightly concave
towards the front. South forms a hybrid
convex surface facing the winter sun.
• The point of the south block broadly falls on
the surface of large imaginary cones that
generated the slightly free geometry & this
allow the architecture to break away the grid
iron approach normally associated with solar
architecture.
 BASIC DESIGN VECTORS
• To integrate functionality of building with energy applications.

• To minimize energy demand in the building through architectural intervention. (eg. Passive
concepts such as solar radiation, lattice work for shading, insulation and landscaping).

• To meet the space conditioning and lighting demands through energy efficient system.

• To meet the electric energy demands using renewable energy sources.

 DESIGN FEATURES
• Roof insulated with vermiculite concrete and china
mosaic white finish.
• Insulated walls using expanded polystyrene
insulation.
• Shading devices and fenestration have been
designed to cut off summer sun & let in winter sun.
• Glare free day lights used through specially
designed skylights.
• Building designed as such wind direction can be
redirected.
• Deciduous trees used in the south to shade the
building in summers, in winters these shed their leaves
thus letting in winter sun
• Building oriented along east west
axis so as to have maximum
exposure along north-south.
• South side partially sunk into ground
to reduce heat gains and loses.
• East and west devoid of opening are
shaded.
 ENERGY EFFICIENT SYSTEM (EAT)
• Four tunnels of 70m long and
70cm diameter laid at a depth
of 4m.
• Four fans of 2 HP each force for
the air in and solar chimney
force the air out of the rooms.

• Temperature remains 26 deg. C

,4m deep in Gurgaon
throughout the year.

• Rooms cooled at 28 deg. C

when temperature is 40 degree
during daytime in summers.
• In winters temperature recorded
was 22 degree when the
ambient temperature was 10
deg. Celsius.
 ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTENING
• Uses energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps in the residential
quarters, corridors, lobby & toilets.
• The conference rooms enjoy glare free daylight through
skylights.
• Time based controls switch off lights at present time.

ROOT ZONE SYSTEM

• Waste water is recycled by ‘root
zone’ technique in which the roots
of Phragmites plants with special
capabilities of collecting the
waste at the roots are used to
clean the water which is used for
irrigation. It cleans 5metre cube
of water every day.

• Water harvesting and watershed

management are proposed in
entire
area.
 RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM
SOLAR HOT WATER PANELS
• 24 hot water panel forms a part of parapet
walls inclined at 70 degree instead of 45
degree.

• Fulfils the daily requirement of 2000 litres

daily at 65 degree celsius.

• In winters gas derived from burning twigs,

dry leaves etc. serves as a backup source to
heat the water. South view of the building solar water
BIOMASS GASIFIER SYSTEM heating panels and solar chimney
The biomass Gasifier is the main source of power during the day. Apart from fuel wood, the
Gasifier can also use straw, small twigs and branches, and other crop residue. To make such
fuel easy to handle, it is chopped into small pieces which are pressed together to form compact
cakes or briquettes. The 50-kilowatt gasifier runs a generator, whose diesel requirements have
been cut down to 30% after appropriate modifications; the rest of the fuel comes from the
gasifier in the form of producer gas. One unit of electricity produced needs 1 kg biomass and
90 ml of diesel.
 AMMONIA ABSORPTION CHILLERS
• A set of eco-friendly chillers run on LPG and require minimum energy 9kw.
• As LPG is non-renewable sources of energy so efforts are made to run the chillers on producer
gas generated by wood burning gasifires.
• For conference hall of 100 people temperature requires less than 25 degree Celsius which can
be attained by these chillers.

PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
• Solar water heater taps the suns energy
directly, a series of photovoltaic panels
capture the energy and store it by
charging a bank of batteries. A number
of panels, each measuring 1.1 by 1.2
metres, are joined and form an integral
part of the roof of the building. The
panels can generate up to 10.7 kilowatts
peak of energy, which is fed into a 900
ampere-hour/240 volt battery bank.
• Independent panels power most of the lights located
outside the building. Each such light has a pair of small
photovoltaic panels (roughly a metre wide and half a
metre tall) and is thus a self sufficient stand-alone unit.
The sun is the powering force of RETREAT, where solar
panels are used to form a 'solar roof'.

CONCLUSION
A great deal of thought and planning have gone into the construction of RETREAT, but
it is not just a facility: it is a concrete reaffirmation of TERI’s faith in its research and of
its commitment to sustainable development – it is TERI’s gift to humankind in the 21st
century.
THANK YOU