New designing techniques have been used recently in design phases of buildings to adapt human thermal comfort. Due wide range energy consumption within a building, it is impossible make proper decision about the impact different efficiency strategies without simulation tools. Architects need understand accuracy and precision software use them as valuable tools predict consumption. This research...

In this research, a combination of passive and active methods is used to design a nearly zero energy building in four major climatic regions of Iran, including cold, mild, dry-warm, and wet-warm ones. The annual energy consumption analysis is performed using DesignBuilder® software. The passive strategies include Trombe Wall, blue roof, and thermochromic windows, and the active methods are usin...

Sustainable building practices can considerably reduce building’s environmental impact in energy consumption. Covering a building envelope with green vegetation, such as green roof and green wall, is considered a sustainable construction practice, as green vegetation has a positive performance in energy savings. It reduces heat flux and solar reflectivity, generates evaporative cooling, increas...

Globally, a large proportion of building's energy is consumed to achieve thermal comfort, as promoting efficiency and environmental sustainability buildings an important global goal. Therefore, the new building regulations are geared explicitly toward energy-saving projects. However, there usually many competitive priorities, such maximizing use in office buildings, leading complex multi-object...

The design of a building can provide the highest thermal comfort in the interior without any mechanical equipment and save energy to a large extent. The roof of a building is an important part for thermal loss. This research studies the thermal performance of 14 conventional roof structures in Tehran city by using designbuilder 4.5. It is found that the polystyrene block performs best compared ...

An emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic affected rethinking of existing healthcare systems. The increased need for hospital beds appeared short after outbreak and solution was to adapt buildings, primarily public ones. Among all, sports i.e. halls were successfully used around globe conversion into hospitals. Topic paper investigate whether in Serbia, which also as temporary hospitals, are...

Building facades have evident effects on indoor thermal comfort. Hence, the basis of a multifunctional residential building in Sydney, Australia, this research uses DesignBuilder software to optimize passive system design facades. This also analyses influences changing window glazing type, adding additional shading devices and material exterior wall Results show that number uncomfortable hours ...

Heritage buildings are significant historical and architecture added value, which requires deep precise preliminary brainstorming when considering upgrading or retrofitting these valuable buildings. In this study, we opted to highlight some passive design interventions improve the thermal comfort required cooling energy for The Murabba Palace in Riyadh was selected as a case study. DesignBuilde...

In several countries, residential buildings are responsible for high energy consumption. The majority of is consumed on air conditioning to ensure maximum indoor comfort. Iraq, the demand electricity increases significantly, especially during summer cooling purposes. this paper, two technologies proposed reduce load. These approaches included use phase-changing materials (PCM) in different loca...