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Ismaeel, W S E (2020) An Integrated Model for Energy-Efficient Building Opening Design. In: Scott, L and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 36th Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-8 September 2020, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 576-584.

  • Type: Conference Proceedings
  • Keywords: building commissioning, energy simulation, measurement and verification process, opening design, monitoring and control systems.
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-3-2
  • URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/f6a842a3b95f1560f7e7367683cdc601.pdf
  • Abstract:

    Housing problem in Egypt is escalating with the increasing number of population. This is why the government is taking serious actions to initiate national cooperative housing projects in new cities; nevertheless, this requires proper management of available natural resources. In this regard, site selection is considered the primary decision upon which many consequential decisions. It creates a corner stone with sustainable decisions on the urban and building levels. Hence, the proposed sustainable management framework (SCHMF) tackles the entire building process as well as individual practices for site selection; showing how it links with upper strategic levels of city planning and detailed levels of building design. Accordingly, the study has applied a sequence of steps; starting by the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) to investigate the effect of site selection on the urban level focusing on how real life problems and decisions of occupational location can be maintained through the integration of mapping and modeling techniques. Then, managerial science approaches are used to represent and simulate the feedback loops for proper site selection using guidelines from green building rating systems. This framework shows dominant and latent feedback loops with other sustainable categories-particularly energy efficiency. It is intended for institutional use to enable comprehensive assessment of the efficiency of housing projects on defined intervals as a sort of design, management and control procedure on both the building and urban levels.