Comprehensive Rating System for Net Zero Building

The need for Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs) in India becomes increasingly important due to climate change, increasing energy prices, scarcity of fossil fuels. From 2020 new buildings, including hospital and university buildings have to fulfill more strict energy requirements. Besides that, also the energy requirements for existing buildings will become stricter to realize an energy neutral built environment in 2050. Net Zero Energy Buildings are recently in trends and few buildings are already constructed in India. The assessment tools available for NZEBs are working on CRISP basis. Due to this approach developers are discourage towards development of NZEBs. Therefore, there is a need to develop an assessment tool for Net Zero Energy Buildings which provides flexible scoring system so, that developers get attracted towards planning of NZEBs. This research is focused on developing an assessment system based on fuzzy logic. For new assessment parameters will be identified based on climate zones in India. A parametric suitability survey will be carried out to check the suitability of parameters. Final outcome of the research will be in form of a flexible assessment system for NZEBs.