Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), 2017
- Bureau of Energy Efficiency launched the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 to establish minimum energy performance standards for buildings in India. Buildings consume significant proportion of our energy resources and the ECBC is an essential regulatory tool to curb their energy footprint.
- ECBC 2017 is one of the first building energy codes to recognize beyond code performance.
- There are now three levels of energy performance standards in the code.
- In ascending order of efficiency, these are ECBC, ECBC Plus and Super ECBC.
- To be ECBC-compliant, the new buildings should be able to demonstrate minimum energy savings of 25%. Energy savings of ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Carbon Credit Trading in India
- 2 Methane Emissions: Sources, Impacts & Initiatives
- 3 Ozone Depleting Substances
- 4 Urban Heat Island: Causes, Effects and Solutions
- 5 Marine Heatwaves: Causes & Impacts
- 6 Biodiversity Conservation: Methods and Strategies
- 7 Biodiversity Hotspots in India: Endemic Species & Threats
- 8 Coral Bleaching: Causes & Effects
- 9 Compensatory Afforestation: Initiatives in India
- 10 Seaweeds: Characteristics, Habitat and Uses
Ecology & Environment
- 1 National Forest Policy
- 2 National Environment Policy
- 3 National Water Policy
- 4 Wildlife protection act 1972
- 5 Forest Conservation Act 1980
- 6 Scheduled Tribes And Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006
- 7 National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-System
- 8 Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules 2010
- 9 Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
- 10 Central Zoo Authority
