Construction as an industry sector is responsible for around one-third of the total world-wide energy usage, and about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. The rise in number of buildings and floor space area for both residential and commercial purposes has imposed enormous pressure on existing sources of energy. Implementations like efficient usage of building energy systems, design measures, utilization of local energy resources, energy storage and renewable energy sources for meeting electricity demand are currently under development and deployment to improve the energy performance index. However, integrating all such measures and evaluation of developed nearly zero-energy and zero-emission buildings is yet to be explored.

In this book, different control techniques together with intelligent building technology used to improve the energy performance of buildings have been illustrated. Every building energy control system has a two-fold objective for energy and comfort requirements to achieve a high comfort index (for thermal, visual, air quality, humidity and various plug loads) and to increase the energy performance index. The most significant aspect of the design of buildings' energy control system is modelling. All the components, methodologies and processes involved in developing a renewable energy-driven building are covered in detail.

This book is intended for graduates and professionals working towards the development of sustainable built environment using renewable energy sources.

V.S.K.V. Harish is working as an Assistant Professor with the department of Electrical Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Gandhinagar. He had completed his M.E. (with Gold Medal) in Power Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2012 and PhD from IIT Roorkee in Feb 2017; both with MHRD fellowship. After his PhD, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi under Netherlands' government sponsored project on Smart grids for rural India. He has been nominated for the prestigious Young Energy Researcher Award in 2016 and in 2018 at World Sustainable Energy days, Austria. He was awarded Best paper Awards at Springer and IEEE International conferences, in Oct 2019. He was granted International travel support by DST in 2014 and 2018 and by Soft Computing Research Society, India in 2017. He has published several research papers in journals and conferences of international repute. He has previously published book chapters with CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. He is also member in various society and institutions like ASHARE, IEEE, SCRS, CIBSE, etc. His research interests include Building Energy systems and Power Systems analysis.

Amit Vilas Sant is working as an Assistant Professor with the department of Electrical Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India. He completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi India in 2013. Prior to this, he completed his Master of Technology in Power Apparatus and Systems (with Gold Medal) from Nirma University, Ahmedabad India in 2007. He has obtained his Bachelor of Technology (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Varodara, India. From April 2012 to September 2014, Dr. Amit was a post doctoral researcher at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has published several research papers in journals and conferences of international repute. Four of his research publications have received awards at different conferences. His research interests include Power Electronics, Electric Drives, Electric Vehicles, Power Quality Enhancement and Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Systems.

Arun Kumar is a Bachelors in civil engineering from IIT Roorkee, Masters in Civil Engineering from IISc Bengaluru and PhD from IIT Roorkee. He did Hydropower Diploma studies at NTH, Trondheim, Norway. Prof. Kumar is currently working as Professor of HRED, IIT Roorkee. He held MNRE Chair Professor from 2013 to 18 and headed department from 1998 to 2011 and served on Board of NHPC Ltd, Govt of India PSU during 2015-2019 as independent director. His research areas are Hydropower Development, Environmental Management of Water Bodies, Energy Economics and Policy. As far as teaching is concerned, Prof. Arun Kumar is Teaching various PG/UG courses in Alternate Hydro Energy Centre and students of other departments of the institute regularly. He has designed two M.Tech. Programmes at AHEC Alternate Hydro Energy Systems and Environmental Management of Rivers and Lakes. He aslo, has Designed 3 optional courses for UG students. He has Contributed significantly in the establishment of national and international recognition of Alternate Hydro Energy Centre. He has conceptualized and established national facilities for hydropower simulator, performance evaluation of hydro projects, hydraulic turbines, standards for SHP and environmental management of lakes and rivers, comprehensive use of solar energy at IIT Roorkee campus. Prof. Kumar has over 39 years of experience in the field of Hydropower and environmental management of river and lakes. He served CLA for Hydropower on SRREN for IPCC. He appraises project proposals for Government of India regularly. Prof. Kumar had received various awards and recognitions from CBIP, Institution of Engineers and Hydro Power Association.