KRYOTECH - THE ASHRAE–INDIA STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION.

ARCHITECTURAL AND HVAC DESIGN COMPETITION FOR MULTI USE TYPE

COMMERCIAL COMPLEX

PREAMBLE: INDIA as a whole is witnessing un-precedent growth in construction of large

buildings in the Commercial and IT park domain. This development has put a lot of
stress on the scarce natural resources like power and clean water. India is fast reaching
a situation, where its buildings would account for 40% of total national electrical power
consumption and 20% of total fresh water consumption. Air Conditioning system for
these buildings consumes almost 50% of the total building electrical power (average for
round the year operation). With an objective to promote “Energy Efficient Building
Design – for a sustainable Future”, young engineers across the country are encouraged
to design the AC system for a typical multi use type commercial complex considering the
broad data furnished below. Engineers are encouraged to do a thorough analysis of the
yearly heat load profile, suggest systems and technologies with a single point agenda of
“minimum year round energy consumption for the building”.

INPUT CONDITIONS BASED ON WHICH THE AC SYSTEM HAS TO BE DESIGNED:

AREA TO BE AIR CONDITIONED: The building consists of 5 floors, each floor having area
(required to be conditioned) of 20,000 sq ft. Hence total area required to be conditioned
is 1,00,000 sq ft.

ORIENTATION: The 4 walls of the building are on a perfect North, South, East, West
orientation. Please consider a rectangular building having 200 ft length along the North
and South direction and 100 ft length along East and West direction. Consider a total
height of 14 feet for each floor (except Multiplex), of which 10 ft is below false ceiling
and 4 ft is above false ceiling. For multiplex floor, consider floor to floor height of 30 ft,
with false ceiling at 20 ft.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND HEAT LOAD PARAMETERS: All the exposed walls shall
be of standard 10 inch brick construction having ½ inch inside and outside plaster
resulting in an overall U factor of 0.36 BTU/Hr/Deg. F sq ft. Each of the exposed wall
area shall have 30% exposed glass (30% of wall area below false ceiling). Glass shall have
a U value of 0.5 BTU/Hr/ Deg. F sq. ft. and Solar Heat Gain Factor (SHGF) of 0.35.

For internal load profile, occupancy and other details, refer to Annexure – I

LOCATION & AMBIENT CONDITION FOR DESIGN (DEG. F): KOLKATA – West Bengal
India, 100 / 83 DBT / WBT for summer and 90 / 84 DBT / WBT for Monsoon. No separate
provision for heating / humidity control is required to be considered. In side conditions
to be maintained at 72 Deg. F DBT +/- 2 Deg. F and RH 55% (without any specific
control). For year round variation of weather data, please refer attached annexure.

ELECTRICITY TARIFF STRUCTURE: 2 options are available: a) Fixed tariff rate of Rs 5.00/-
KW Hr throughout the day b) Variable tariff rate of Rs 5.00/- from 6:00 to 17:00 hrs, Rs
7.5/- from 17:00 hrs to 22:00 hrs and Rs 3.5/- from 22:00 to 6:00 hrs.

It is important to note that only a single tariff structure a) or b) as mentioned above can
be considered for the entire building as a whole.

SERVICE WATER AVAILABILITY: Available in good quality and quantity.

Piped LPG or oil or waste heat is not available at site.

 ANNEXURE -I

Light Equipment.
APPLICATION AREA Occupancy Load Load Fresh Air
(6:00- (10:00- (18:00- (22:00- cfm /
Sq ft 10:00) 18:00) 22:00) 00:00) w/sq ft w/sq ft person

GROUND
FLOOR
HYPERMARKET 20000 0 30 50 0 3 1 10

FIRST FLOOR
RETAIL Shops 14000 0 30 50 0 5 1 10
Common Area 6000 0 50 50 0 2 0 10

SECOND
FLOOR
RETAIL Anchor Shop 10000 0 30 50 0 5 1 10
Common Area 5000 100 50 50 0 2 0 10
Health Club 5000 50 100 100 0 1 1 15

THIRD FLOOR
FOOD COURT Food Counters 3000 150 75 75 75 2 2 10
FRESH AIR & EXHAUST
Kitchen 6000 VENTILATION 1
Sitting Area 11000 100 50 50 50 3 0 10

FOURTH
FLOOR
MULTIPLEX Theatre - I 5000 0 30 15 30 0.5 0 10
Theatre - 2 5000 0 30 15 30 0.5 0 10
Theatre - 3 3000 0 30 15 30 0.5 0 10
Lobby 5000 0 60 30 60 2 0 7.5
Administration 2000 0 60 120 200 1 1 13

NOTES: 1) Occupancy figures indicated above are in sq ft/person

2) Kitchen shall be ventilated and not air conditioned.

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The above list is only a general guideline. Teams are encouraged to design their own
layouts with distribution of areas.

Content of the Preliminary report to be submitted by each group of engineers

participating in the contest:

a) Composition of team with institute name.

b) Whether an architecture student is involved and they will participate for the best
architectural layout prize or they will consider a building as per problem
statement only.
c) Heat load analysis(either at peak load or year round hourly load profile)
d) Different alternative type of AC system they would like to try out for analysis.
e) List of software they intend to use for this design work and their utility.
f) Any other specific information that they would like to highlight.

Content of the Final report to be submitted by each group of engineers

participating in the contest:

a) A brief report on how changes considered in floor layout (as compared to

application area distribution proposed in the problem statement) are beneficial.

b) Alternate building envelope (glass, wall, and roof) materials proposed. Summary
of heat load calculation for all floors with internal loadings worked out at peak
condition.
c) Estimated variation of cooling load for the building considering seasonal
variation, occupancy and internal load variation as per data furnished in the
problem statement.
d) Detailed description of the AC system considered for the building with capacities
and types of cooling system, pumping system and Air Handling system
considered. Logic for sizing & type of each equipment must be clearly spelt out.
e) Detailed analysis of year round energy consumption needs to be furnished with
as much back-up data as possible.
 f) Schematic layout of the AC system considered needs to be furnished.
g) A technical report on innovative ideas that have been considered in your design.

Contacts:

Somwrita Biswas
+91-9433726473
somwrita.biswas@ktj.in

For any clarification required, you may contact: Prateek Dutta Roy; mail:
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