Indoor air pollution is one of the human health threat problems in the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) countries. In these countries, due to unfavorable meteorological conditions …

Thermal comfort has always been an essential factor that affects students' productivity and
success. Students spend considerable time at their schools or universities more than any …

Thermal comfort preference in primary schools is quite crucial because of the difficulty of
young students to show and reflect their actual status of comfort: they may come with a jacket …

Global attention is currently focussed on developing techniques to improve the thermal
performance of buildings to provide indoor comfort with minimum reliance on energy load …

Building's window-to-wall ratio (WWR) plays a significant role for predicting energy
consumption in tropical climate because huge amount of solar heat gain occurs through the …

The solar collector's efficiency is directly depended upon the solar radiation intensity falling
on its surface. In order to increase the solar concentration over the collector, side reflectors …

This paper presents an experimental study to evaluate the effect of various percentages of
RAP on the properties of asphalt mixtures. Moreover, the thermal characteristics of using …

Italy has a huge cultural heritage, most of which consists of historical buildings that have
changed their original function and use over time. The complex question of building and …

This research work presents shading of building in hot and dry climate areas using rooftop
photovoltaic arrays. Electrical power generation using photovoltaic arrays helps in reducing …

The study presented an approach to accomplish the nearly zero-energy school building
through the assessment of energy and economic performance of the design solutions with …