Integrating user awareness and behavior into building and product design for India: Survey in eight giant cities in India

Doleschal, R and Pottgiesser, U and Akhilesh, KB and Kabre, C and König, K (2014) Integrating user awareness and behavior into building and product design for India: Survey in eight giant cities in India. In: 30th International on Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference - Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward, PLEA 2014, 16 December 2014 through 18 December 2014, Ahmedabad, pp. 191-198.

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Abstract

Is India on a sustainable road or not? Between April 2012 and January 2014 the authors have conducted a quantitative paper and online based user survey on energy awareness and attitudes in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. The survey was part of the project �Clime Related Energy Efficient Design - Product Solution (CREED-PS)� first funded under the aegis of Germany India Year 2011-2012 �Germany and India: Infinite Opportunities� with a focus on �City Spaces� and then as part of the project �DWIH Excellence on Tour. 2013-2014.� More than 2000 visitors were interviewed during the events about their individual energy consumption, their knowledge of selected energy issues and energy efficient building design and their sustainability attitudes. The majority of the visitors are part of the academic middle class group in India´s Megacities, as a limited group of India's society. One of the main results are that living in energy efficient residences is very important for most of the respondents, although two third don´t know exactly the energy consumption of their household. Yet, most of the respondents are willing to spend more money in energy efficient and energy saving building devices and household equipment. Summing up one can say that the interviewed middle class group (Shukla, 2005, Mawdsley, 2004) is on the sustainable road, although we have identified several inexplicable contradiction in knowledge and awareness as topics for further research work that are relevant for building and product design. This paper illustrates on the one hand the use of survey as part of an integrated design process and suggests on the other hand collaborative approaches to educating architecture and design students about sustainability in building and product design. © Copyright: CEPT University, Center for Advanced Research in Building Science & Energy, Ahmedabad First Published 2014.All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	30th International PLEA Conference: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward - Proceedings
Additional Information:	cited By 0; Conference of 30th International on Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference - Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward, PLEA 2014 ; Conference Date: 16 December 2014 Through 18 December 2014; Conference Code:159930
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Management Studies
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2024 10:06
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2024 10:06
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/66223

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