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USER PERSPECTIVE From the perspective of the user, the waiting time and the travel time form important performance measurement criteria. For comfortable travel, the horizontal and vertical accelerations are to be controlled and  limited to industry norms .   INDUSTRY TRENDS (ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS) The cost of the system increases with the speed and beyond certain speed the increase is exponential. Lift manufacturers make lift cars with their unique nonstandard sizes. This implies that the planning the lift brand has to be concluded before issue of GFC drawings for ground floor structure. This is a great schedule contradiction as the lift commissioning is the last activity. Big brands often force their contract conditions. Usually their representatives have least authority to deviate from company’s prescribed conditions. Service & Safety Issues: AMCs with the manufacturer is usual and safety and good services are provided by most of the reputed companies. ...

The paper coauthored with Anagh  has been published in the proceedings of National Level Symposium (Festival of Architecture & Built Environment-10th &11th Feb. 2012) organized by SRM University, Chennai.   (ISBN: 978-81-8424-755-8 Published by Allied publishers private Limited-Chennai)   Energy Saving By Optimizing Facade Elements with  Spread Sheet Model. Abstract: A major component of energy requirements for cooling and heating  comes through facade elements of a habitat. Bulk of this huge energy requirement can be  reduced through optimum orientation and detailing of building facade elements. The  graphical methods available for calculating the energy inputs are lengthy and cumbersome. Hourly heat ingress or loss quantification over the year makes such manual methods   impractical. The popular energy software are black boxes requiring inflexible and voluminous  data entries and are not suited for optimizing ind...

Paper published in The Journal of The Indian Institute of Architecture June 2008 THE ECONOMY OF ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE Akanksha Sharma, Abhijit Parashar, Ashutosh Pathak Akanksha Sharma ( sharma.akan@gmail.com ), B.Arch (JMI University, New Delhi), working with Ar.Shiraz Kidwai, Delhi Design Company Abhijit Parashar ( abhijitparashar2003@gmail.com ), B Tech (IIT Roorkee), NSE certified derivatives and capital markets dealer, currently working at Schlumberger Ashutosh Pathak PMP, ( pathak.ashutoshpathak@gmail. com ), M. Tech. Building Science & Construction Management (IIT Delhi), Microsoft certified Application Specialist for Office Excel® 2007, currently working as Director (works), PWD, Govt. of NCT Delhi. Author for correspondence: Akanksha Sharma( sharma.akan@gmail.com ) ABSTRACT A booming Indian economy and consumerism has lead to exponentially rising energy consumption in Urban Indian residential and commercial s...