The impact of the building envelope on the energy efficiency of residential tall buildings in Saudi Arabia

In this paper, the authors explored the hypothesis that the most common approach to improve a building’s energy efficiency in the hot climate of Saudi Arabia, which focuses on engineering parameters, is not sufficient and architectural design parameters should be adopted to reduce cooling loads. In...

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Main Authors: Ghabra, Noura, Rodrigues, Lucélia Taranto, Oldfield, Philip
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42958/