The impact of building materials on the thermal comfort : case of hot and dry climate city of Biskra

Abstract EN

Building materials play an important role in the architecture by providing the protection requirements, comfort, and technical performance while promoting an architectural language and an image.

The impact of the building materials varies according to their properties: physical, chemical, mechanical and thermal.

Also, each material has certain behavior to the environmental factors heat, humidity.

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so materials interact with these factors through conductivity, resistance.

Therefore choosing the right building materials is a key factor in achieving a certain level of comfort inside the building.

In this study, we investigate the impact and the thermal behavior of different materials and the most used building materials traditional and modern under the climatic conditions of Biskra a hot and arid climate.

Also, we analyze the results of a different simulation using “ecotect5.

0” to performed thermal analysis and we used “opaque3.

0” and “u-wert” to figure some envelope proprieties in order to choose the best building material that ensures thermal comfort inside the building.

The results show that choosing local massive materials and thermal insulation can achieve that to a certain degree.