Building Energy Efficiency Lead
USAID ECO-III Project
Sanyogita Manu is the Building Energy Efficiency Lead at the IRG-USAID ECO-III Project. She is a graduate from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and has completed her Masters in Interior Architecture and Design with specialization in Energy and Sustainability. She has worked as a Research Associate and Design consultant for many projects with CEPT. She has also taught design and history courses as a Visiting Faculty member.
Sanyogita has been involved in research in the field of Building Energy Efficiency and Simulation for over four years now. Her work was initiated with the objective of integrating energy efficiency with the subject matter of interior architecture. Working on these lines, she completed her under-graduate research thesis titled ‘Exploring the realm of energy and comfort in interiors: ‘experiments’ to understand thermal effects of furniture on interior environments’, later published by the SID Research Cell, CEPT University as a thesis monograph.
Focusing on the building simulation for thermal and daylighting analysis of buildings, Sanyogita undertook some independent studies as a part of her research association with CEPT University. She had the opportunity to work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California between March-April 2008. She also presented a paper based on her Masters dissertation at IBPSA 2009 Conference held in Glasgow.
As a member of the ECO-III Project Team, Sanyogita is working on energy simulation and analysis for both real and theoretical case studies towards understanding the impact of energy conservation measures as given in the Energy Conservation Building Code, aimed at Code enhancement and compliance guidance.
