Climatic Classification of India for Building Design Using Data Analytics

• Published in: National Academy science letters Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 235 - 239
• Main Authors: Jain, Kshitij, Gupta, Gargi, Verma, Kamal Kant, Agarwal, Anurag
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.06.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Building codes; Building design; Buildings; Classification; climate classification; Climatic conditions; Climatic data; climatic factors; Climatic zones; Cluster analysis; data analysis; Design; Energy efficiency; History of Science; Humanities and Social Sciences; India; multidisciplinary; Multivariate analysis; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Short Communication; Thermal comfort; India; Data analysis; Climate classification; PCA
• ISSN: 0250-541X; 2250-1754
• DOI: 10.1007/s40009-022-01109-7

The buildings are designed to provide the thermal comfort to the occupants. The most important consideration for the design of building is the extent to which it exposed to climatic condition. Climatic classification helps to design comfortable and energy efficient buildings. For the energy efficient building design, zoning of climatic classification, for the country into different regions is essential to differentiate the climate region wise. This paper focuses on the study of climatic classification of India considering the latest climatic data of India using multivariate technique, factor–cluster analysis. The outcome of study gives additional sub-climatic regions for India as compared to present five major climatic zones, (i) hot-dry (ii) warm-humid (iii) cold (iv) temperate and (v) composite, as defined in the climatic data handbook of CBRI (Bureau of Indian Standards, SP -72: National Lighting Code, CSIR-CBRI, 2010) and also National Building Code 2016 (in National Building Code of India 1:1–1226, 2016).