The Adaptability of Passive Design Strategies for Public Buildings in Shenzhen

Abstract

In recent years, with increasing demands of improving public indoor environment for living in a more comfortable manner, a large number of mechanical equipment are applied to public buildings, making public buildings be major energy consumers in civil buildings. Passive technology is an effective way to design buildings of energy saving strategies. Therefore, this paper summarizes the overall energy consumption of public buildings in Shenzhen by collecting and analyzing statistical data through Shenzhen Statistical Yearbook over the years. Besides, using Ecotect’s sub-software “Weather tool” to analyze the local meteorological environment. Through the analysis of the psychrometric chart to get the different energy-saving potential used the specific six passive design strategies, the results have shown that the best combination of passive design strategies suitable for climate conditions are natural ventilation, passive solar heating, and thermal heating. Finally, these three passive design strategies are further analyzed and discussed to obtain the feasible schemes, which could provide constructive suggestions for passive energy-saving design of public buildings in Shenzhen.