Energy-efficient envelope design for high-rise apartments
Abstract
The energy required to create a comfortable living environment in high-density cities in hot and humid climates usually demands a substantial electricity usage with an associated environmental burden. This paper describes an integrated passive design approach to reduce the cooling requirement for high-rise apartments through an improved building envelope design. The results show that a saving of 31.4% in annual required cooling energy and 36.8% in the peak cooling load for the BASECASE apartment can be achieved with this approach. However, all the passive strategies have marginal effect on latent cooling load, often less than 1%.
- Publication:
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Energy and Buildings
- Pub Date:
- January 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.enbuild.2004.05.002
- Bibcode:
- 2005EneBu..37...37C
- Keywords:
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- High-rise apartments;
- Hong Kong;
- BASECASE model;
- TRNSYS;
- Envelope design;
- Thermal simulation;
- Green architecture;
- Energy efficient building