Watch the past year’s webinars
Check out past webinars conducted on a range of technical subjects related to building science, net-zero and training on ways to optimize building performance using simulation tools. Webinars were also conducted on soft skills subjects such as communication, verbal presentation, writing better reports, and many more.
Technical webinars
Heat Transfer and your Building Envelope
The webinar covers the process for assessing building materials and assemblies for heat transfer control, how the benefits and costs need to be assessed, optimization and sensitivity analysis, thermal bridging and the sequence of building envelope layers and case studies of good/bad design related to building envelope heat transfer.
Passive Design and Shading
The webinar would cover the importance of passive design for net-zero energy, the process of climate analysis to identify appropriate passive strategies, a combination of passive and active strategies, and various case studies that have implemented passive cooling and heating strategies.
Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation
The webinar would cover the impact of air-conditioning on building design, the story of thermal comfort -from constant to adaptive, development of control systems for adaptive mixed mode, mechanical ventilation systems, and its application, filtration solutions to provide a healthy indoor environment, and case studies to understand the applicability of these concepts.
Natural Ventilation
The webinar would help you understand the design process, climate analysis, recognizing opportunity, sizing windows, network flow design and importance of shading and its interconnection with natural ventilation. The expert will also discuss case studies related to wind-pressure driven design, stack effect design and assisted flow design
Designing Rightsized HVAC with Load Calculations
The speaker discusses the approach to rightsizing and various strategies to do so. The speaker also discusses the cost impact of rightsizing and the interrelationships between different building systems and their impact of sizing for each other.
Water Sufficiency
The speaker has discussed the process of water cycle design to reach water sufficiency, case studies of building and community-scale projects with water sufficiency goals, various technologies, and its impact on construction cost and maintenance.
Mechanical HVAC and LEC
The speaker has discussed types of HVAC systems, alternative LEC (low energy cooling) systems, and how to select the appropriate HVAC system for your building.
Cost Estimation and Affordability
The speaker discusses approaches to achieving affordability, different ways of using cost estimation, and how to present your net-zero building design to overcome the barrier and the myth that these buildings are not affordable.
Resilient Design
The speaker will discuss strategies to achieve resilience and adaptation at a building, site, & community level, and case studies to address hazards in buildings.
Deep Dive into Cost Estimation
Estimating the cost of your project can be daunting and cumbersome. Through this webinar, the speaker will discuss the various parameters involved in the cost estimation of your project. The cost estimation spreadsheet has also been discussed in detail.
Software webinars
Simulation with Climate Studio
This webinar is a brief introduction to Climate Studio. In the first part of the webinar, the speakers show the features of Climate Studio that can be used for effective net-zero energy building design. In the second part, they discuss the process while using the software in the form of a simulation game that the attendees also participate in.
Simulation with DesignBuilder
The speaker has discussed the process of water cycle design to reach water sufficiency, case studies of building and community-scale projects with water sufficiency goals, various technologies, and its impact on construction cost and maintenance.
Climate Studio Masterclass
The speaker demonstrates the features of Climate Studio that can be used for effective net-zero energy building design. Through the Climate Studio interface, the speakers discuss the application of various energy conservation measures (ECMs) and understanding results to make effective design decisions.
DesignBuilder Masterclass
The speaker demonstrates the features of DesignBuilder that can be used for effective net-zero energy building design. Through the DesignBuilder interface, the speaker discusses the application of various energy conservation measures (ECMs) and understanding results to make effective design decisions.
Soft skill webinars
Alumni Masterclass
Solar Decathlon alumni present the work done by teams who participated in US Solar Decathlon. Through this webinar, you will get a deeper insight into various aspects like energy, passive design, HVAC, cost estimation, thermal comfort, etc. while designing an energy-efficient building. The presenters share their project details and how they used their industry partners effectively.
Ask Us Anything with TRGs
This is an Ask Me Anything session with the Technical Resource Group members. The attendees got the opportunity to ask the TRG members their queries related to their entry for the competition. TRG members from expertise areas related to Water, Whole Building Energy Simulation, HVAC + Control and Operations, Lean Construction & Structural detailing, and Renewable Energy were a part of the panel.
Writing Better Reports
Reports can be long, boring, jargon-filled, and sometimes scary. But they don’t have to be! In this webinar, you will learn how to write crisp and compelling reports. Essential sections of a report, Data/Tables/Images, Outlining/Structure and Good writing tips are also discussed in this webinar.
Easy Movie Making
Solar Decathlon India’s Deliverable 4 requires your team to make a movie that narrates your story. This webinar focuses on the basics of movie-making which involves storyboarding, software that can be used, and tips for making a compelling movie. Watch this webinar to learn more!
Overcoming Challenges with Multidisciplinary Teams
Working in a multidisciplinary team can be a complex process where people with different expertise, knowledge, and skills work together as a team aiming towards one outcome. Through this webinar, various challenges along with best practices to overcome them have been discussed.
How to get in the News?
You have gained a solid technical understanding, applied it in your work, and developed incredible solutions to complex problems. But how will you communicate this to others and scale up the impact of your work? How will you show your future employer that you are what they are looking for? Watch this webinar to find out how to get in the news and make waves.
Anyone can do a TED Talk
Learn how to tell your story to the jury to score a win. In this webinar, the speaker discusses what to include in your final presentation, who to select as presenters from within your team, how to prepare well, and make an impression on the jury. Our speaker is also one of the Divisional Jury Members. You have put in a lot of hard work for Solar Decathlon India, make it count!
