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Design and Planning Strategies to Reduce the Impact of Rising Temperature on Micro Climate of University Campuses in India

Kriti Jain, Sumedha Dua

Abstract


Climate change is one of the issues that we are facing in this century. The impact of climate change can be seen significantly on the buildings and occupants. It can be seen in the form of rising temperature, excessive precipitation, flooding, droughts and rise in sea level. Among all these, the impact of rising temperature is going to affect the humans and buildings as well. India is soon going to face extreme heat waves in this century as predicted by World Bank. The university campuses are no exception. Rising temperature along with heat wave and urban heat island effect is affecting the universities and students’ activities. Since universities are kind of mini city within a city. The impact can be identified there and mitigation strategies can be proposed.
Rising temperature has numerous impact on universities such as the requirement of additional cooling measures, loss of vegetation, increase in heat gain from walls and roof, creating urban heat island effect. Such indicators are identified with the help of literature study. Accordingly design and planning strategies are identified through literature, secondary case studies and primary case studies which are already being implemented in some of the campuses and can be adopted in others. Three campuses are selected for doing the primary case study- IIT Delhi, AIIMS Delhi and Amity University, Noida. Along with this a secondary case study of IIT Roorkee is also conducted. These campuses are then compared on the basis of design and planning strategies implemented there and further recommendations are given for reducing the impact of rising temperature. After adopting these strategies, the micro climates of the campuses are assessed on the parameters of temperature, air quality index, wind speed and humidity. Results show that IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee have some variations in micro climate as compared to the surrounding climate of the city.

 


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