Value Engineering applicability in design of sustainable, energy efficient buildings

Aggregating Opinions to Design Energy-Efficient Buildings

In this research-in-progress paper we present a new real world domain for studying the aggregation of different opinions: early stage architectural design of buildings. This is an important real world application, not only because building design and construction is one of the world’s largest industries measured by global expenditures, but also because the early stage design decision making has...

VALUE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS IN EGYPT

General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building [1]. According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budg...

Building Information Modeling (bim)-based Design of Energy Efficient Buildings

With the increased awareness of energy consumption as well as the environmental impact of building operations, architects, designers and planners are required to place more consideration on sustainability and energy performance of the building. To ensure most of those considerations are reflected in the building performance, critical design decisions should be made by key stakeholders early dur...

Intelligent Optimized Control System for Energy and Comfort Management in Efficient and Sustainable Buildings

Building energy efficiency and management provides remarkable automation opportunities, which fulfills dwellers comfort index. The challenging issue of the building envelope is to save energy and achieve high comfortable environment simultaneously. In this study, control system behavioral model with its framework has been developed for smart buildings. The power consumption of the actuator syst...

Optimal Control of Energy Efficient Buildings