Proposed new administrative building for LUCKNOW INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ( LIDA ) at LUCKNOW aimed at a LEED-PLATINUM certification.


Located on the Lucknow Kanpur expressway, the new Lucknow Industrial Development Authority Building is a one of the state capitals most symbolically important projects. It expresses the transparency and accessibility of the democratic process and demonstrates the potential for a sustainable public building.

Aiming at a LEED -PLATINUM certification , the building boasts of using the GEO-EXCHANGE HVAC system along with a 500KW solar power-plant on the top, which together generates 60% of the buildings energy demands.The Geo-exchange HVAC system, a successful role model tried at some of the worlds latest architectural energy saving buildings,here itself saves about 30% of the total HVAC load bringing down the net energy demands drastically.

The site planning encompasses greater percentage of green public spaces at the lower levels allowing for the building to go high-rise using greater setbacks. Use of solar panels at inclined angles designed on ECOTECT help in trappping maximum solar energy to be transformed for building use.Use of double glazed glass,reduces the heat entrapped inside the building which further lowers the load on the buildings HVAC system.

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Sustainability is achieved by different means such as use of solar panels on the western facade so that maximum heat can be entrapped and is not allowed to enter inside since the facade is blanked.Eastern facade is designed in receeding floor slabs thereby getting aesthetically pleasing form in a curvilinear glass facade.In addition it has a a overhang canopy perched at the top which has photo-voltaic cells assisting in the total energy conservation system.
Rapid-wall construction coupled with shear walls,makes the construction efficient and cost effective.

Architects : STHAPATI ASSOCIATES, LUCKNOW
Project Lead by : Anuj Varshneya
Chief Architect: Vipul Varshneya, Associate Architect: Harsh Varshneya
CLIENT : LUCKNOW INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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