TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme A: Connecting the Pearl River Delta RegionAccording to the Islamic architectural rules, these apartments cannot have anyview to the one-story houses, which are located in their neighborhood (Eastern andWestern parts of apartment). The face of these walls is not important, so oftencovered by a thin layer of Cement Mortar. Figure 1 shows a southeastern view ofan apartment in Mashad with very vast area of walls and windows in touch with air.In the cold regions, the building envelopes and especially their vast area of wallsand windows in touch with air have vital role on the energy consumption in thistype of residential apartments.Figure 1: An apartment in Mashad with vast western and eastern walls and vastnorthern and southern windows in touch with free air.In this study, the energy consumption in an assumed building in the Mashad(similar to the apartment, presented in Fig. 1) with different construction methodsof walls and windows are investigated. In addition, the energy consumption invarious stories are evaluated and compared.2. MATERIALS AND METHODSIn this study, the buildings were analyzed by DeST-H software, which is an annualdynamic energy simulation tool. This software is almost used in China and it cansimulate the hourly room temperature, loading of energy by the air conditioningsystem during a year and some other energy parameters related to the buildings.113