Tailoring a future overheating risk tool for existing building design practice in domestic and non-domestic sectors

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Gul ◽  
DP Jenkins ◽  
S Patidar ◽  
PFG Banfill ◽  
G Menzies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Existing Building

CFD Investigation of the Effect of Building Passive Design Strategy on Energy Efficiency and Wind Comfort in Extreme Weather Conditions in Astana, Kazakhstan

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 658-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serik Tokbolat ◽  
Raikhan Tokpatayeva ◽  
Sarim Al-Zubaidy
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Weather Extremes ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Passive Design ◽  
Low Energy Buildings ◽  
Wind Comfort

There is a distinct lack of building design literature specific to the Central Asian region. This perhaps, could be one of reasons for the only slight improvement of new building designs and construction. One does observe the highly glazed buildings are a particularly popular feature here in Astana, as like anywhere else in the world. However, excessively glazed surfaces combined with the weather extremes leads to adverse internal conditions and skyrocketing energy bills. The work presented in this paper is a part of continuing efforts to identify analyze and promote the design of ‘low energy, green and sustainable buildings with special reference to the Kazakhstan locality. In the present context, low energy buildings’ refers to buildings inherently low energy consuming by careful passive design, utilizing intelligent building technologies to automate building services and minimize wastage of energy and by incorporation of renewable technologies for its energy supply. Demonstration of improved environmental conditions and impact on energy savings will be outlined through a cause study incorporating application of passive design approach and detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis for an existing building complex. The results indicated that there is a considerable influence of passive design and orientation on energy efficiency, wind comfort and safety.

Evolution of seismic building design practice in Japan

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whittaker ◽  
Jack Moehle ◽  
Masahiko Higashino
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
Design Practice

scholarly journals Building Design Influence On The Energy Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Ligia Moga ◽  
I. Moga
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Climatic Regions ◽  
Energy Consumptions

Abstract Energy efficient design is a high priority in the national energy strategy of European countries considering the latest requirements of the European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings. The residential sector is responsible for a significant quantity of energy consumptions from the total amount of consumptions on a worldwide level. In residential building most of the energy consumptions are given mainly by heating, domestic hot water and lighting. Retrofitting the existing building stock offers great opportunities for reducing global energy consumptions and greenhouse gas emissions. The first part of the paper will address the need of thermal and energy retrofit of existing buildings. The second part will provide an overview on how various variables can influence the energy performance of a building that is placed in all four climatic zones from Romania. The paper is useful for specialist and designers from the construction field in understanding that buildings behave differently from the energy point of view in different climatic regions, even if the building characteristic remain the same.

scholarly journals Determination and Evaluation of the Cooling Load of a Building Made by Different Local Material of Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
AMADOU OUMAROU Fati ◽  
Ramchandra BHANDARI ◽  
MAMADOU Lewamy ◽  
KY Thierry S.M ◽  
OUEDRAOGO Souleymane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Local Material ◽  
Local Materials

This paper aims to describe a passive approach to reduce the energy demand for an existing building and can be made through an improvement of the design of the thermal envelope. The essential article goal is to simulate thermal construction responses in dependence on changing different materials of the construction of the building and also with less energy usage to design a more effective cooling system. In this approach, we simulate the building with different materials: three local materials (compressed earth, lateritic, and raw material) and one modern (Hollow cement) used in Burkina Faso and an energy analysis of the building has been carried out. The numerical optimization of the building design has been performed dynamically for these four materials using the COMSOL multiphysics simulation tool. The model treated is determining the internal temperature and cooling demand concerning a tertiary building in Burkina Faso like a classroom, which is located in a hot and dry climate to improve the indoor quality of the classroom knowing the importance of the thermal comfort in the room for socio-economic performance efficiency and well-being. The analysis result of these four materials shows that energy can be saved if we use local materials instead of the modern one because around 4KW of energy can be saving with local materials. The use of local materials in the building design can be an option for reducing the heat transfer into the room and at the same time the energy consumption.

scholarly journals Exploring Multiple Disciplines in Building Design Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Olaitan Awomolo
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Documented Information ◽  
Team Functioning

While there are numerous benefits to working in teams comprising multiple disciplines, we do not have sufficient documented information on the functioning of multi-disciplinary teams in the building design context. As functioning impacts project outcomes, an understanding of the operation of building design teams comprising multiple disciplines is important. To contribute to the body of knowledge that addresses this gap, this paper examines literature on disciplinary types and team performance. Using an analytic framework identified in literature, this paper studies the organizational and social aspects of building design practice in order to shed light on the ways in which the multiple disciplines involved building design work together. Findings presented in this paper suggest that building design teams combine and integrate knowledge, skills and capabilities in a multidisciplinary manner. In addition, this paper discusses four social and organizational characteristics of multidisciplinary building design teams – the project delivery approach, disciplinary roles, preexisting social and professional relationships, and location and geographic proximity – and documents their impacts on team functioning.   

scholarly journals Developing sustainable school guidelines: the case of Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
S Harb ◽  
S M ElHaggar ◽  
H Sewilam
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
School Design ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
Education And Development

Educational reform has been a concerning matter to the Egyptian government since the 20th century. In order to address the educational problems, several initiatives have instigated a quantitative expansion approach, rather than a qualitative one. Existing building assessment methods convey sustainability principles to building design. However, they do not consider the school design as an active pedagogical tool for sustainable education and development. In addition they do not integrate other imperative parameters necessary for the effective learning and development of students. The developed guideline is divided into two school rating systems; new and existing. The guideline is further divided into three main sustainability categories: energy, water, and habitat. The directing parameters of the guideline are based on sustainable building assessment parameters, Egypt’s pressing social, economic and environmental concerns, pedagogy of educational environments, students’ social, psychological, and developmental needs, in order to develop a holistic framework.

Green Building Design Practices - Analysis of the Design of Leisure Office Center

2011 ◽  
Vol 90-93 ◽  
pp. 890-893
Author(s):  
Wei Feng ◽  
Hui Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Natural Ventilation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Sound Insulation ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Technical Measures

Through the design practice of the green Leisure office center building, the paper discusses the technical measures of ecological architecture, and makes an in-depth analysis of the use of solar energy, natural ventilation and daylighting technology, water conservation measures, material recycle technology, sound insulation technology and other energy saving technologies. In addition, the paper summarizes the technical measures suitable to China's national conditions, which can be regarded as a reference for other design practice so as to promote the development of green building.

scholarly journals Analysis of the scope of thermo-modernization for a residential building in order to transform it into a low-energy building

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Knapik
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Domestic Hot Water ◽  
Modernization Process

The article presents the problem of thermo-modernization and the reduction of energy demand for heating purposes in existing residential buildings. The thermo-modernization process has to adapt the existing building to the standard of a building with low energy demand and applicable regulations. Low-energy constructions are a result of introduction of new solutions in building design process. Their main objective is to achieve a significant reduction in demand for renewable primary energy, necessary to cover the needs of these buildings, mostly related to their heating, ventilation and domestic hot water. The article presents the results of the analysis and calculation of selected thermo-modernization variants. The results showed that thermo-modernization process of existing residential buildings is justified both energetically and economically.

scholarly journals Transcending disciplines in architecture, structural and building services engineering: a new multidisciplinary educational approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Oliveira ◽  
Luke Olsen ◽  
Liora Malki-Epshtein ◽  
Dejan Mumovic ◽  
Dina D’Ayala
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Mixed Data ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Multidisciplinary Education ◽  
Building Services Engineering ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis paper reflects upon the mechanisms that enable development of curricular approaches to multidisciplinary architecture/engineering higher education. Building upon recent calls for integrated multidisciplinary building design practice, academics at UCL, industry partners and respective professional bodies embarked upon developing a new course that challenged disciplinary boundaries and defined the needs of a new design professional. Whilst there have been attempts internationally to better integrate architecture as well as engineering education, efforts have largely been focused on bolt-on solutions based on pre-existing education programmes. In addition, there has been little discussion (empirical or theoretical) on practical measures associated with developing multidisciplinary education in the built environment. Drawing on mixed data including documentary evidence, semi structured interviews and observations, the study begins to shed light on the approaches underpinning the development of a multidisciplinary built environment MEng course at UCL that integrates architecture, building services and civil engineering. The paper’s contribution is threefold. First, the findings have implications for developing multidisciplinary built environment education curricula, through revealing key mechanisms including the need for shared attitudes and expectations. Second, the paper highlights the conditions that enable the negotiation of multidisciplinary curricula including institutional support, shared values and a collective need and willingness to explore new solutions. Third, the paper reflects upon the value of design studio learning as a critical integrative component to the delivery of multidisciplinary education in the built environment and STEM more widely.

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