Architects set to share low-carbon building design expertise on India roadshow

The CREEDA roadshow is focusing on low carbon design and will stop in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai - Design experts set to visit New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai to share low-carbon, climate resilient building design ideas and tools University of Bath architecture experts will embark on a roadshow across three major Indian cities this week, sharing their knowledge on designing energy-efficient buildings that are resilient to climate change, and unveiling a new design manual made specifically for India. The CREEDA roadshow - the title is short for Climate Resilient Energy Efficient Design in Architecture - stops in New Delhi on Monday 13 March, Mumbai on Friday 17 March and Chennai on Monday 20 March. It aims to offer architects, engineers and designers a new way to learn how to design super-efficient, low carbon buildings using free tools and data created by Bath researchers. Attendees will be immersed in the process of designing buildings that are resilient to a changing climate and highly energy efficient. Professor Sukumar Natarajan , who is leading the delegation, says: -CREEDA's goal is to enable architects to engage with low energy and low carbon building design. In India, as in many parts of the world, architects -leave- this aspect to engineering colleagues who come in late in the design process, when most of the decisions that will influence the building's final performance have already been made. -CREEDA lowers the cost and skill barriers for architects in India through an easy-to-read manual that uses free tools and data developed at the University of Bath.