The effect of building envelope design on energy consumption
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Salim, Ynus Mahmud Muhammad
al-Jawadi, Miqdad Haydar
al-Jamil, Ali Haydar Sad
Jalal, Shawnim Rashid
University
Salahaddin University-Hawler
Faculty
College of Engineering
Department
Architectural Department
University Country
Iraq
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2010
English Abstract
Building envelope design has a considerable impact on energy consumption.
In Kurdistan region of Iraq and especially in Erbil city there is a rapid and wide buildings construction movement that uses different materials and technologies without any considerations to energy consumption and environment pollution.
The research mainly aims to reduce the embodied and operating energy.
The secondary aim is to reduce the pollution impact of materials during preparation and building construction. First of all, the research has used a historical review to discover methods of walls and roofs designing which built by ancient people to reduce energy consumption. It also has made a primary survey to discover and compare the energy consumed by modern vernacular architecture and traditional architecture in Erbil city.
The results of a roughly primary survey have showed that the old traditional architecture consumed less energy than the modern vernacular architecture in Erbil city.
The research has reviewed the main literature about building architecture envelope design and energy consumption.
Then, it has made a comparison between time lag and insulation strategies that are used in architecture.
The research presents previous studies in the world and in Iraq in order to show the knowledge gap pertinent to the problem.
The research has used the experimental method in a case study and has prepared a model of a modern vernacular architecture to be simulated by energy plus software program to examine the thermal efficiency.
The research has two independent variables : wall design and building orientations.
The wall design includes (66) cases of different materials that should be tested.
The second variable is the orientation which includes eight directions (South, North, East, West, South East, South West, North East and North West).The research has used four dependent variables: running cost (Rx) , price of units (X), (Z) value (Z = Rx + X) and space increment.
The research used descriptive statistics to analyze resulted running cost and price of units.
The results show clearly the role of thickness of materials, air gaps and insulating material in thermal efficiency of an envelope of a building .This refers to the reduction of using extra energy as fossil fuel and reduction of air pollution at the same time.
Main Subjects
Topics
No. of Pages
161
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Introduction.
Chapter One : historical literature of envelope’s design through ancient world.
Chapter Two : building envelope and energy.
Chapter Three : time lag and insulation strategies.
Chapter Four : thermal characteristics evaluation of materials through (energy plus) as energy measurement tool.
Chapter Five : results, discussion and recommendations.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mahmud, Muhammad Sadiq. (2010). The effect of building envelope design on energy consumption. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Salahaddin University-Hawler, Iraq
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-309902
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mahmud, Muhammad Sadiq. The effect of building envelope design on energy consumption. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Salahaddin University-Hawler. (2010).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-309902
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mahmud, Muhammad Sadiq. (2010). The effect of building envelope design on energy consumption. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Salahaddin University-Hawler, Iraq
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-309902
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-309902
