1. Importance of Energy Efficiency in Buildings
   1. Green House Effect and Global warming
   2. Who is responsible for Greenhouse Gases
   3. Cost curve
   4. Importance of Buildings on Energy Efficiency
2. Rating Tools and Incentives
   1. Do they help achieve truly sustainable design?
   2. Strength/ weakness & opportunities and threats
      1. Role of Building Professional
         1. Checklist based approach Vs performance based approach
            1. System based vs synergy based design
         2. operational carbon & future proofing
            1. Energy modelling - Limitations
         3. Innovation vs lack of exitement
         4. Head in the sand approach
         5. Credit priority
         6. knowledge of practitioners
3. Energy Efficiency in Buildings
   1. Renewable Sources
   2. Active Solutions
   3. Passive design strategies
   4. Passive assisted active solutions
   5. Comparison of Active , passive and passive assisted active solutions
4. Case study – Solaris
   1. Naturally ventilated Atriums
      1. context
      2. challenges
      3. Design
      4. Integration
   2. Solar Daylight shaft
   3. Cascading tropical ramp
   4. Climate responsive solar shaded facade
   5. Building integration