Energy Audits for Achieving High Performance Buildings

Mathew George is a faculty member for the Urban Fellows Programme at IIHS, and teaches a course focused on building energy audits. He holds a PhD in Solar Energy from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a specialisation in Phase Change Materials (PCM). His expertise includes thermophysical properties of the PCM with the addition of nanomaterials, with potential applications in battery thermal management, building energy storage, photovoltaic panel thermal management and electronic cooling. Mathew has half a decade of experience as a faculty member at engineering institutions in Haryana, Kerala, and Karnataka. In addition to
teaching, he worked on a project with Atria Power to assess the feasibility of offshore wind energy along the Gulf of Mannar and the costing for data collection using the Wind LIDAR system. He has also worked in the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning domain, having worked for a year as a mechanical design engineer for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and service engineer troubleshooting Variable Refrigerant Flow systems. Mathew completed his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from LBS College of Engineering, Kasaragod, Kerala, and Master’s degree in Mechatronics from Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh.