Thermal Surface Analysis on Colonial Style’s Apartment Facades in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Thermal Surface Analysis on Modern Apartment’s Façade in Penang, Malaysia

“…The first one is the distance between the selected case studies, which caused about 10 minutes delay when taking the façade thermal images, while the second limitation is that the study is limited only to the afternoon and evening hours from 12:00 to 6:00 PM and that because the sunlight during these hours is more intense and cause more effect than the morning hours. In addition, there is a slight difference in the orientation of both buildings [15]. The façade thermal images of Halaman Kristal 2 and Mutiara Idaman 1 were captured on 15th March 2017 from 12:00 to 6:00 pm.…”

“…Penang Island which is considered as the second most important state in Malaysia was selected for this study with two if high-rose buildings on the eastern coast of the island, the island overall has been under huge development for the last 3 decades, and the first high-rise building in the Penang was constructed in the 1960s [2,3]. [14][15]2017 In order to design in a tropical country like Malaysia, a good and efficient façade design should be provided by having an excellent, sufficient, and suitable shading device which will help to minimize the unnecessary sunlight penetration to penetrate into the house and increase the façade shading area which will lead to decrease the exposure to the direct sunlight [4,5]. Exposing to the direct sunlight causes heat transfer problem from the external façade walls into the indoor atmosphere [6][7][8][9], as results; it produces an uncomfortable condition because of increasing of the temperature which is the reason of an extra usage of air-conditioning to regain the required thermal comfortable [10].…”

Thermal Surface Analysis of Multi-storey Apartment Buildings in Penang, Malaysia

“…This camera also is used for several purposes like, to recognise the hotspots of fires, to detect the overheating of power cables, to determine the heat leaks, to measure fever, to detect defects in buildings and to study the urban heat island (Balaras & Argiriou, 2002;Meola, 2013;Meola, Di Maio, Roberti, & Carlomagno, 2005). Besides, it is a tool for analysing thermal surfaces of building facades which indicate thermal surface performance (Arab, Hassan, & Qanaa, 2017& 2018Hassan & Arab, 2017a& 2017b. The objective of this research is to identify the results of thermal surface temperatures of two high-rise apartment buildings using comparative analysis, one with conventional and the other one with high-tech envelope design measured using a thermal imaging camera, Fluke Ti20.…”