Mysuru: A two-day Capacity Building Workshop on ‘Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) was conducted by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India in association with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) recently for government engineers, architects, industrial engineers and civil engineers in Mysuru.
Dr. H.N. Nagendara, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), University of Mysore (UoM), inaugurated the workshop by switching on a LED solar lantern. Speaking on the ocasion, he said, buildings are major consumers of energy in their construction, operation and maintenance phase. Hence, taking the utilisation of consumption into consideration, it is necessary to design a building focusing on energy conservation aspects.
