Most new housing designs in Saudi Arabia are created to meet the client’s needs with minimal regard for environmental or energy-related considerations, resulting buildings’ poor thermal performance and a growing reliance on artificial means. Polycarbonate windows have recently acquired popularity. Yet, there is rising interest combining polycarbonate nanomaterials reduce energy consumption, esp...

Energy conservation is recently the most important issue all over world, including in Egypt. Recently, built environment of Egypt has experienced a dramatic change its buildings’ typology, with more interest constructing high-rise buildings. This turn creates high demand for energy, as buildings are considered to be one energy-consuming types wide variety climatic conditions, seven different in...

Daylight in classrooms is a critical factor in school design, in terms of its impact on students’ health, learning and visual performance. Providing adequate amount of evenly distributed daylight and glare prevention are important challenges in classroom design. Window configuration significantly affects the intensity and uniformity of daylight. This paper aims to investigate the effect o...

This article analyses the actual, normative monthly and typical detailed climatic data for city of Kyiv. Data on actual outdoor air temperatures during 2014-2021 were compared with indicators in accordance Ukrainian regulations most common hourly climate files used building energy modeling: International Weather Energy Calculations (IWEC), Meteonorm, Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) from PVGIS...

In the climate-change period, all countries strived to design sustainable buildings. As environmental influenced contributes decisions, save energy and achieve development indicator according Egypt Vision 2030. This can be achieved by accessing maximum of daylight, consequently facade has a major impact on daylight performance.This paper aims evaluate performance using dynamic shading, in unive...

Any building’s design should sustain thermal comfort for occupants and promote less energy usage during its lifetime using accurate building retrofits to convert existing buildings into low-energy so that the heating cooling loads can be minimized. Regarding methodology adopted in this research, an model of educational located at German Jordanian University Jordan was constructed utilizing Desi...

Actualmente, las ciudades crecen por medio de procesos dispersión y concentración, los cuales representan diferentes problemáticas asociadas a la búsqueda sustentabilidad urbana. Uno estos aspectos es disponibilidad incorporar sistemas energías renovables en distintos sectores urbanos, que diferente para cada caso estudio. En efecto, cualquier ciudad persiga objetivos desarrollo sustentable dem...

The 2018/844 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU) has widened the scope appropriate design buildings from a pure energy performance and carbon emissions perspective to wider that includes indoor comfort, air quality among others. To this effect, external parameters, especially solar energy, have strong impact on in Mediterranean regions, which requires careful consideration when it co...

Thermal environment in sports facilities is probably one of the most important parameters, determining safety and performance athletes. Such facilities, due to required operating temperature physical activity users, are a serious challenge for both investors administrators, especially summer. The additional criterion low energy consumption extremely airtight well-insulated passive buildings oft...

Cities on the east Mediterranean coast, especially in Palestine, are struggling to move towards sustainability as they vulnerable climate change and lack natural resources, energy this situation is further aggravated by high prices. The problem building sector, which most challenging sector when it comes cities’ and, specifically, sustainability. In main consumer of but lacks efficiency measure...