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Climate Zone Solar Passive

Wipro Limited

General Information:

Client: Wipro Limited

City: Kolkata
Climate: Warm & Humid
Operational schedule –24 hours, 6 working days in a week
Area of the building : 11079.2m² (out of which 7621.0 m² - conditioned area, 3458.2 m² - Non- conditioned
area)

Green Building Design Features:

Building Design

Orientation

Tower 1 & 2: Longer axis N-S

Tower 3 & Cafeteria: E-W
Learning Center – N-E

The orientation of Towers 1 & 2 helps in reducing solar heat gains.

Orientation of window openings of Tower 1 & 2 on N-S helps in reducing cooling loads and reducing the

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overall air-conditioning requirement and hence saves energy.

The proper building orientation plays an important role with regard to solar radiation and wind.

Landscape

The three towers are planned around courtyards which are green spaces around the building blocks.

Maintains comfortable micro-climate and contribute towards energy conservation. Trees reduce direct solar
heat, provide shade and prevent heating up of building surfaces and heat island effect.

Also helps in maintaining a lower ambient temperature around the buildings and hence better microclimate.

Building Envelope

Walls

Walls of air-conditioned zones in all blocks - 230 mm brick with 12.5 mm plaster

Roof

Window

6 mm brown single windows

(SC – 0.52, U-value of Glass – 5.7

W/m2K) WWR – 11.1% Roof Towers 1,2,3, learning centre, and guest house
Tinted single glazed window helps in
reducing solar heat gain. Optimum WWR
which is less than ECBC standard (40%)
helps in reducing external solar heat gain.

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Building Lighting

Day light integration

Due to less window wall ratio, daylight integration has not been the focus in this building.

Small windows at the seating areas can reduce thermal discomfort.

The reduced percentage of window area to wall area helps in reducing the external heat gain into the
building.

Lighting system

6% of the total connected load for the building (273 kW of indoor lighting, 30 kW of outdoor lighting)
Luminaires used mostly – one efficient recessed type luminaires with twin 36 W CFLs
LPD – 6.9 W/m2

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The LPD (6.9 W/m2) is less than the maximum allowed LPD of ECBC (10.8 W/m2) which is very
good.
According to Energy Star, CFLs provide the same amount of light as ordinary bulb using 75% less
energy.
It also generates 75% less heat, reducing cooling costs.

HVAC system Design

Central plant with 4 chillers of 2 types with 1610 TR cooling capacity

Screw type chillers

Centrifugal chillers

Energy Performance of the Building

Lighting Energy Performance of the Building

Annual consumption (lighting) – 917501 kWh

Lighting Performance Index – 23 kWh/sq.mt/annum

Space Conditioning Energy Performance of the Building

Annual energy consumption due to
lighting & air conditioning (kWh): 445335

Energy Performance Index of the building

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(KWh/sq.mts of built up area/annum):

219

Energy Saving Potential

Impact of Low energy strategies:

Annual consumption (A/C) – 7798385 kWh

Operating cooling demand – 196 sq.ft/TR

Parameter Conventional Existing case (Low

comparison case energy strategies)
6% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
17% less than the
Cooling Load Base case
conventional case
5% less than the
EPI Base case
conventional case

Impact of ECBC envelope:

Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
5% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
13% less than the
Cooling Load Base case
conventional case
5% less than the
EPI Base case
conventional case

Impact of ECBC recommended LPD:

Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
12% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
9% less than the
Cooling Load Base case
conventional case
EPI Base case 13% less than the
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conventional case

Impact of ECBC recommended chiller efficiency:

Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
9% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
Cooling Load Base case No change
7% less than the
EPI Base case
conventional case

Impact of HVAC controls:

Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
16% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
Cooling Load Base case No change
16% less than the
EPI Base case conventional case

Impact of ECBC recommended energy conservation measures:

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Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
23% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
23% less than the
Cooling Load Base case
conventional case
21% less than the
EPI Base case conventional case

Impact of ECBC recommended energy conservation measures:

Parameter Conventional Existing case (ECBC

comparison case envelope)
38% less than the
Electrical load Base case
conventional case
30% less than the
Cooling Load Base case
conventional case
35% less than the
EPI Base case conventional case

Comparison of various parameters for solar passive building (Wipro) with conventional case:

Parameters Solar passive Case Conventional Case

Building design Building longer facades are 45 degree Building orientation was changed to longer
inclined to North facades facing East-West

No roof and wall shading No roof and wall shading

Building Envelope No insulation on wall and roof. No insulation on wall and roof.
U value for Wall -1.92 W/m2/K U value for Wall -1.92 W/m2/K
U Value for Roof-2.74 W/m2/K U Value for Roof-3.35 W/m2/K

Single Glazed windows( U value of glass Single Glazed windows( U value of glass
-5.7 W/m2/K and Shading coefficient- -6.14 W/m2/K and Shading coefficient-
0.52) 0.815)
Building Lighting Lighting power density is 6.9 W/m2 Lighting power density changed to 20
Power density W/m2

Building Chiller 2 water cooled screw type chillers having Air cooled screw chillers with COP of 3.2
a COP 2.6-2.9
2 water cooled Centrifugal water cooled
chiller having a COP 4.0-4.3
Energy performance 219 335
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Index (KWh/m2/yr)

Developed by TERI, supported by US Department of State and Bureau of Energy Efficiency, under the aegis
of Asia Pacific Partnership

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