Climate-Adaptable Building Envelope Materials

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Reham Eldessuky Hamed

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The appearance of a pandemic in contemporary years has created a fundamental shift in the architectural community. Building effectiveness, environmental considerations, passenger comfort, and the interior environment must all be upgraded, based on new solutions for energy-efficient building skins that should be developed in the construction community. The first protection mechanism for safeguarding users and seeking to manipulate the indoor environment is the construction of the outer surface. Building skin layers that are developed to be energy efficient provides performance improvement and occupant satisfaction. In terms of heating, cooling, venting, and lighting requirements, as well as safety and sustainability, this issue can be fixed by minimizing energy consumption as much as possible with thermal energy storage. On the other hand, the envelope layers of the construction necessitate environmentally friendly components that are limited in number and quality. Notwithstanding the hazardous nature of the material produced, it has environmental influences throughout its expected lifetime. Covering phase transformation materials for providing thermal approaches in the skin cross-section and developing and testing thermal solutions to provide a better environment and boost the quality of the environment, can all lead to practical solutions. Phase Change Material is a natural recyclable material that increases the comfort, safety, and efficiency of buildings, which leads to less energy consumption, minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, and causes a reduction in the redistributing energy usage to shift load time from peak to off-peak hours, reducing total energy consumption. The research on student accommodation at Beni Suef University (BSU) in New Beni Suef City is to determine how integrating different materials into the building envelope could result in a better inside environment. Then, by applying phase change materials with specific physical properties and reorienting the existing model to assess their impact on indoor environmental quality, particularly thermal comfort, and to calculate energy consumption and cost. Depending on the findings research findings, the most effective mechanism for building energy-efficient envelopes is integrating hanging materials with construction components in built-in envelope systems, internal walls, floor levels, ceiling layers, opening glazing, and rooftop modifications.

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