Recent advances in computing software have enabled the development of calibrated building energy simulations tools that allow retrofit-related analysis including optimization and energy-efficient design. However, to create a national climate plan, using these may imply great deal effort (time, cost, human resources) carry out for full set different types, construction, geometries, design parame...

Starting from the second half of 2022, energy market, in particular, European natural gas supply, passed through an eventful period. The sanctions imposed on Russia because Ukrainian war rearranged steadiness suppliers to continent, and major concerns arose regarding reduction primary consumption, particularly for heating cooling purposes. This study proposes a method mapping loads building as ...

In hot arid climates, air conditioning in the summer dominates energy use buildings. Kuwait, demand buildings is dominated by cooling, which also determines national peak electricity demand. Schools contribute significantly to cooling demand, but suffer from poor ventilation. This paper presents analysis of a ventilation and system for school classrooms using wind catcher natural evaporative co...

Building energy performance evaluation, as an important process in a sustainable building design, has consequences for global conservation and environmental protection. The traditional methods to perform this evaluation are usually time-consuming computationally complex, have high requirements designers’ professional knowledge on architectural physics software operation skills. To solve these p...

Power demand prediction for buildings at a large scale is required power grid operation. The bottom-up method using physics-based models popular, but has some limitations such as heavy workload on model creation and long computing time. Top-down methods based data driven are fast, less accurate. Considering the similarity of patterns single superiority generative adversarial network (GAN), this...

Traditionally, in building energy modeling (BEM) programs, occupancy inputs are deterministic and less indicative of real world scenarios, contributing to discrepancies between simulated and actual energy use in buildings. This paper presents an agent-based occupancy simulator, which models each occupant as an agent with specified movement events and statistics of space uses. To reduce the amou...

Vernacular architecture constitutes a rich source of information and ancestral knowledge could become key resource for sustainable development. Its passive design strategies effectively respond to local climatic weather conditions, using locally sourced materials the construction its supporting structures enveloping elements, as well spatial organization incorporation buffer area (courtyard) th...