Architectural Approach to Mitigate Energy Consumption for Lighting in Central Library of MITS College

We have entered an era of energy crisis with parallel increase in demands and consumption of same. Facts say that a large part of total energy consumption is credited to operations associated with construction and buildings and most of that is dedicated to the lighting systems. Necessity, demand, and advantage of design of buildings with energy efficiency co-operation, that too right from the planning stage is a major challenge for architects and construction expertise of building industry. This paper is a part of research linked with energy consumption in building and construction sector. The paper deals with architectural design suggestions and parameters to be followed and carried out at different stages of construction of building, in order to mitigate the consumption of energy for lighting of space. To understand the study with a better approach and comparison of contemporary and suggested design strategies a referential case study of library, MITS, Gwalior is used and synthesised as per research. With feasible design changes at brown field stage a comparison is made that how those design changes helped in mitigation of energy consumption.