Environmental Engineering Reference
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Energy in B uildings
This chapter generally is devoted to defining energy-efficient buildings and
the relevant indoor environmental quality; it gives a brief account of rating
systems of energy-efficient buildings.
6.1 Energy-Efficient Buildings: A Challenging Era
The developing community in its path for rapid development is endeavour-
ing to make all necessary and appropriate measures to enhance the efficiency
of energy utilisation and to increase the beneficiation of the energy resources.
Throughout Egypt, energy resources are widely used and consumption rates
are in general exceeding the internationally accepted values. The use and
application of new and renewable energy sources can be harnessed to design,
construct, and to operate a solar building of moderate size for desert applica-
tions. This chapter demonstrates the importance of incorporating an energy
performance directive as a standard in our region; such a goal will aid energy
savings in large buildings and will set regulations for energy-efficient designs
that are based on standard calculation methods. The target is to develop stan-
dardised tools for the calculation of the energy performance of buildings, with
defined system boundaries for the different building categories and for differ-
ent cooling/heating systems. We endeavour to prepare models for express-
ing requirements of indoor air quality, thermal comfort in winter (and, when
appropriate, in summer), visual comfort and so on with a common procedure
for an 'energy performance certificate'.
6.1.1 Energy Declaration of Buildings
All countries around the globe have developed or are now undertaking the
development of the following specific codes with their compliance proce-
dures and measures:
1. Residential Energy: Building Codes
2. Commercial Energy: Building Codes
The implementation of such a project is hoped to be realised through
close cooperation and association with the Housing and Building National
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