Passive Design Features for Energy-Efficient Residential Buildings : the context of Dhaka, Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9783659258138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str.

Tahmina Ahsan

Opis

This study by Tahmina Ahsan is her work and it aimed at identifying passive design features that can be incorporated in residential buildings to make them energy efficient. The findings from this study indicate that doubling the thickness of external walls on east and west, use of hollow clay tiles instead of weathering course for roofs and use of appropriate horizontal overhang ratios for all four orientations can reduce the cooling load of the case study building by 64% and hence reduce the total energy use of the building by 26%.

O autorze

Tahmina Ahsan is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, Australia and she has been awarded an ASI scholarship to pursue her PhD. She is an Assistant Professor at Stamford University Bangladesh. She was awarded the MKP scholarship in 2007 to carry out her MSc in Environmental Engineering & Sustainable Infrastructure at KTH, Sweden.