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Sustainable Building Material Technology as an Approach to Thermal Comfort in Low Income Housing in Hot Regions.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Architectural Engineering

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Due to increasing the demand for low income housing projects, the Egyptian Government has constructed a large number of identical residential units all over the country regardless the climatic condition of each location and the economic and environmental aspects in design and construction process. This has led to lack of thermal comfort in the indoor environment and increasing in energy consumption.  On the other hand, this problem can be solved by choosing the appropriate building material with respect to environmental design principles. It can greatly improve the thermal performance and reduce the negative impact of these projects on human and environment. The main aim of this research is to evaluate the thermal behavior of the current low income housing prototype (case study) and improve it using alternative sustainable building materials and techniques in order to reach human thermal comfort. It also provides an analytical study of global experiences on using friendly construction material in an environment friendly similar project. The performance of the case study evaluated using computer simulation program (design Builder). This research process led to a strategy of improving public housing projects in Egypt.

DOI

10.21608/bfemu.2020.94482

Keywords

Computer Simulation program, Low income housing projects, Sustainable building material, thermal comfort

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

ElSaied

MiddleName

Salah

Affiliation

Professor at Architectural Engineering Department, University of Mansoura, Egypt

Email

drsalah22222@hotmail.com

City

Mansoura

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

ELWazeer

MiddleName

Awad

Affiliation

Associate professor at Architectural Department, University of Mansoura, Egypt

Email

monaawad.74@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

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First Name

Yara

Last Name

ELFayoumy

MiddleName

Kamel

Affiliation

Demonstrator at delta higher institute for engineering and technology, Mansoura, Egypt

Email

yarakamel@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

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Volume

43

Article Issue

2

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14270

Issue Date

2018-06-01

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2018-02-20

Publish Date

2020-06-08

Page Start

12

Page End

21

Print ISSN

1110-0923

Online ISSN

2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 43_Issue 2_Pages 12-21.pdf

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Publication Title

MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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https://bfemu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Sustainable Building Material Technology as an Approach to Thermal Comfort in Low Income Housing in Hot Regions.

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22 Jan 2023