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Thermal Comfort Evaluation in Egyptian Residential Buildings: A Case Study to Determine the Problems of Excessive Electricity Consumption

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Civil and Architectural Engineering

Abstract

Residential buildings account for a large proportion of global energy consumption in both low- and high-income countries. This consumption creates a great burden on energy security as it is not proportional to the produced energy. Efficient planning to meet building energy needs requires accurate, high spatial resolution information on energy consumption. To justify the high energy consumption, this study focuses on evaluating the thermal performance of existing residential buildings. This evaluation was done using building performance simulation tools. The paper's research methodology follows the experimental approach. This approach utilizes energy simulation to evaluate the existing residential building's thermal performance. The evaluation is done by analyzing thermal comfort levels according to the acceptable ranges stated by the Housing and Building National Research Center. Residential buildings are built without taking appropriate design measures to protect the indoor environment from external weather conditions. researchs' importance is to study how this will affect indoor thermal comfort. The paper aim at finding the main reason for high levels of energy consumption in the residential sector.

DOI

10.21608/eijest.2022.105930.1162

Keywords

thermal comfort, Residential Buildings, Electricity Consumption, Energy Retrofitting Approach

Authors

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

sabbour

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Affiliation

Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

shimaasabbour@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-7047-9518

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

El Shihy

MiddleName

Ashraf

Affiliation

Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Newgiza University, Giza, Egypt

Email

elshihy@hotmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Omar

Last Name

Adel

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

omar.adel.abdelghaffar@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-4131-3794

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

AlShanwany

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

hshanawany@hotmail.com

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-

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Volume

42

Article Issue

1

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41988

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2022-06-15

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

29

Page End

37

Print ISSN

1687-8493

Online ISSN

2682-3640

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/article_269393.html

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1,348

Publication Type

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Publication Title

The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology

Publication Link

https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/

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Thermal Comfort Evaluation in Egyptian Residential Buildings: A Case Study to Determine the Problems of Excessive Electricity Consumption

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26 Dec 2024