For environmentally sustainable development
DeLCA refers to the project for “Development of Low-Carbon affordable Apartments in the hot-humid climate of Indonesia towards Paris Agreement 2030” (2020-2026). DeLCA is a five-year project under the program of SATREPS (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development). The SATREPS is structured as a collaboration between the Japan Science and Technology (JST), which provides competitive research funds for science and technology projects, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provides development assistance (ODA). Based on the needs of developing countries, the program aims to address global issues and lead to research outcomes of practical benefit to both local and global society. DeLCA is conducted jointly by 53 Japanese members and 59 Indonesian members, comprising 6 Japanese universities, 7 companies, and 4 Indonesian organisations and 7 universities.
The goal of DeLCA is to develop low-carbon affordable apartments and implement them across Indonesia to meet the GHG reduction target of the Paris Agreement for 2030. By the end of the project, we will complete the developments and implement them through actual constructions as well as the establishment of standards/guidelines such as SNIs (Standard National Indonesia). The project is structured by five output groups, namely urban climate, human, building, energy and implementation. The urban climate group will predict the future urban climate in major cities of Indonesia for 2030 onwards. The cities are projected to get hotter due to global warming as well as urban heat islands. We will develop a new TMY (standard weather data) for future climatic conditions. We will also standardise human thermal comfort in the human group. We develop a new thermal comfort standard considering the unique physiological characteristics of tropical people. Then, we develop comprehensive cooling techniques in the building group, focusing particularly on passive cooling techniques. We will propose several prototype apartments for respective climate zones. The energy group will assess (LCA) our proposed techniques in terms of energy consumption as well as CO2 emissions. The implementation group will construct one of the prototype apartments in the city of Tegal. Then, we incorporate all the research results into the existing design standards/guidelines for affordable apartments in Indonesia as alternative designs for low-carbon apartments.
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