Building energy performance simulation: a case study of modelling an existing residential building in Saudi Arabia

Alyami, Mana; Omer, Siddig

doi:10.1088/2634-4505/ac241e

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“…Advancing toward sustainability goals requires a combination of design and operational factors for reducing resource consumption throughout the built environment, including residential-scale energy consumption [15]. Understanding community context is particularly important for creating community-driven resource sustainability approaches [8].…”

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“…Different models have different applications, with many models supporting benchmarking and simulation of possible future scenarios. Various data gathering, handling (e.g., dimensionality reduction), and modeling approaches are represented in this focus issue, including regression [3] and other machine learning methods for classification [10,11], principal component analysis [12,13], participatory action research [8], differential equations representing underlying physical science [14], and other building-scale models [14][15][16]. Research models and analyses, combined with multi-scale digital applications [7], can translate impacts from large-scale infrastructure operations (e.g., CO 2 emissions from electricity generation) to the end-use scale [6,16], though there are often overlapping spatial scales for resources and governance.…”

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“…Understanding community context is particularly important for creating community-driven resource sustainability approaches [8]. For example, in the context of the residential sector in Saudi Arabia, building insulation is a strong energy efficiency approach, motivating policy change regarding new building codes and existing building retrofit [15]. These built environment design conditions can advance toward sustainability through enhanced efficiency.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding resource consumption and sustainability in the built environment

Stillwell¹,

Cominola²,

Beal³

2023

Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain.

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The built environment and the communities that contribute to its infrastructure, services, and systems are important aspects of human life. As urbanization increases, time spent indoors also increases, with urban residents spending most of their time indoors. This indoor lifestyle concentrates the effects of water, energy, and food consumption in the built environment, with local, regional, and global implications for interconnected resources and their supply chains. As such, resource consumption in the built environment has sustainability implications, especially with increasing populations and living standards. This focus issue, ‘Resource Consumption and Sustainability in the Built Environment’, examines infrastructure and sustainability from many perspectives. The articles investigate water, energy, and/or food consumption across various scales, ranging from a single household to nationwide supply chains to global climate models. Each paper in this issue considers essential elements of context, since water, energy, and food have local and global sustainability considerations, along with multi-sector dependencies within urban metabolism. Digital technologies, data, and modeling approaches are opening new opportunities for better monitoring and understanding of the built environment. In an uncertain future, understanding resource consumption in the built environment and its implications for the environment and society is a critical aspect of overall human health and well-being. In-depth knowledge of the dynamics shaping the built environment is paramount to supporting adaptive infrastructure planning and management, including supply and demand interventions to help cities and communities become climate neutral while increasing equity in access and affordability of resources and services.

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Understanding resource consumption and sustainability in the built environment

Stillwell¹,

Cominola²,

Beal³

2023

Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain.

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“…The reliability and appropriateness of database software have been highlighted, particular-ly in relation to structure performance investigations [22]. Moreover, it is a three-dimensional, all-encompassing platform created on the foundation of EnergyPlus.…”

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Energy-passive residential building design in Amman, Jordan

Albadaineh¹

2023

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In Jordan, the residential sector is responsible for 43% of all power use and 21% of total energy usage. The use of energy for space heating and cooling accounts for more than 60% of residential energy use. The computer-generated residence, a typical one-storey Jordanian home with a functional floor area of 186 m2, is located in Amman and was modelled to be more energy efficient by incorporating renovating techniques to lower heating and cooling demand, attain marginal energy demand, and produce a high-quality indoor living environment. To get at the idea of passive design houses as appropriately depicted in this paper, various passive design tactics and methodologies were employed. Using DesignBuilder simulation software, Revit modelling software, solar energy analysis software, and assessment of the total energy consumption before and after the deployment of passive design approaches, the effects of each retrofit method were evaluated. The results of this study show that the yearly energy savings for heating is about 78%, and the indoor air quality and temperature of the residence can be significantly enhanced compared to its original situation. The total employed energy in the virtual building was scaled down from 56.57 kWh/m2 to 15.25 kWh/m2 each year.

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“…Energy and environmental savings, achievable through the application of BPS, have been estimated by modeling a typical residential villa as a case study. Results of a study performed to propose potential energy-saving techniques for residential buildings in hot climates by critically examining existing and recent building types in KSA have been presented in [19]. In this paper, a model was designed using computer-based simulation software, DesignBuilder (DB), and the energy performance was then validated against the collected data.…”

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Building Performance Simulation for Energy Rationalization

Suliman

2023

Buildings

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The building sector consumes more than one-third of the electricity produced in many countries, mainly due to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning practice. This estimation is e even higher in countries geographically located in hot and arid regions because the need for air cooling is crucial. This is particularly true for Saudi Arabia, where the building sector’s share in electricity consumption has reached around 80% of the electricity produced. Hence, the influence of environmental factors on building energy consumption has been a topic of focus. This work investigates the effects of applying energy rationalization for a non-residential building in Saudi Arabia. As a case study, a laboratory room at King Khalid University College of Engineering Campus was modeled using Simulink as a typical educational building. The aim was to study all involved cooling loads to assess the amount and cost of the cooling energy required for the building and to search for the influence of selected procedures to rationalize it. Three categories of rationalization measures have been identified, and one measure from each category has been selected and applied. The results show the impact on energy consumption and cost when applying these measures both exclusively and mutually. The best energy rationalization performance reached for an individual action was 17.72%, while a total reduction of 28.38% in energy consumption and cost was obtained when all three selected measures were applied collectively.

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Building energy performance simulation: a case study of modelling an existing residential building in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding resource consumption and sustainability in the built environment

Understanding resource consumption and sustainability in the built environment

Energy-passive residential building design in Amman, Jordan

Building Performance Simulation for Energy Rationalization

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