The building sector is one of the main energy-consuming sectors in Morocco.In fact,it accounts for 33%of the final consumption of energy and records a high increase in the annual consumption of energy caused by furthe...The building sector is one of the main energy-consuming sectors in Morocco.In fact,it accounts for 33%of the final consumption of energy and records a high increase in the annual consumption of energy caused by further planned large-scale projects.Indeed,the energy consumption of the building sector is experiencing a significant acceleration justified by the rapid need for the development of housing stock,wich is estimated at an average increase of 1,5%per year;furthermore,tant is an estimated increase of about 6,4%.In this sense,building constitutes an important potential source for rationalizing both energy consumption and energy savings through the adoption of energy efficiency measures.Energy consumption control efforts in the residential building sector involve socio-economic,technological,and environmental concerns that require sophisticated research.Indeed,different types of quantitative models have been developed and examined so as to find a solution for the optimizing energy consumption.In this work,we have highlighted the importance of using solar heaters to reduce energy demand in terms of the use of domestic hot water.To do this,we have defined the needs and characteristics of a solar installation of a residential building located in Casablanca through a calculating tool“SOLO 2000”in addition to the use of multiple linear regression analysis to deduct the impact of irradiation and solar contributions on the energy demand of the solar installation.展开更多
A precise understanding of the relationships between the household characteristics and the residential energy consumption is needed to support the implementation of effective top-bottom energy strategies and to improv...A precise understanding of the relationships between the household characteristics and the residential energy consumption is needed to support the implementation of effective top-bottom energy strategies and to improve the prediction of forecasting models.This paper contributes to the present-day discussion and analyses the build-ing factors,socio-demographic variables and appliances contributing to high-energy expenditures(viz.,electrical energy expenditure,thermal energy expenditure and total energy expenditure)in the Italian households.The proposed study builds on an earlier work proposed by the authors,which identified the determinants of the household energy expenditures,based on a nationally representative survey(the“household Budget Survey:mi-crodata for research purposes-2015”performed by the Italian National Institute of Statistics).In particular,the present paper completes and extends the previous research by applying the odds-ratio analysis to the previously identified determinants,in order to identify the factors that led to high electricity consumption(viz.,electrical energy expenditure,thermal energy expenditure and total energy expenditure).In conclusion,this paper aims to providing a more precise understanding of the factors that certainly affect the energy expenditure.展开更多
It is well known that the passive strategies applying in traditional buildings respond satisfactory to climatic requirements and succeed to provide maximum indoor comfort with minimum energy consumption.From this poin...It is well known that the passive strategies applying in traditional buildings respond satisfactory to climatic requirements and succeed to provide maximum indoor comfort with minimum energy consumption.From this point of view,it is interesting to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the vernacular strategies to improve the environmental performance of the building's envelope under desert climate conditions.The research tries to address this issue and was undertaken in southern Algeria where a very hot and arid climate prevails.The effect of some selected passive cooling strategies on enhancing the building's envelope climate performance was examined.These strategies are inspired from the local vernacular architecture,and they are expected to provide satisfactory indoor thermal comfort for users and to reduce the energy cooling demand from residential buildings.Applying field and computational investigations,two existing residential buildings were tested:a typical residential unit and a contemporary vernacular(neo-vernacular)building.In the latter,climate responsive strategies inspired from vernacular architecture were applied.A comparison based on site measurements was carried out on the two selected buildings which differ from their envelope design properties and components.展开更多
文摘The building sector is one of the main energy-consuming sectors in Morocco.In fact,it accounts for 33%of the final consumption of energy and records a high increase in the annual consumption of energy caused by further planned large-scale projects.Indeed,the energy consumption of the building sector is experiencing a significant acceleration justified by the rapid need for the development of housing stock,wich is estimated at an average increase of 1,5%per year;furthermore,tant is an estimated increase of about 6,4%.In this sense,building constitutes an important potential source for rationalizing both energy consumption and energy savings through the adoption of energy efficiency measures.Energy consumption control efforts in the residential building sector involve socio-economic,technological,and environmental concerns that require sophisticated research.Indeed,different types of quantitative models have been developed and examined so as to find a solution for the optimizing energy consumption.In this work,we have highlighted the importance of using solar heaters to reduce energy demand in terms of the use of domestic hot water.To do this,we have defined the needs and characteristics of a solar installation of a residential building located in Casablanca through a calculating tool“SOLO 2000”in addition to the use of multiple linear regression analysis to deduct the impact of irradiation and solar contributions on the energy demand of the solar installation.
文摘A precise understanding of the relationships between the household characteristics and the residential energy consumption is needed to support the implementation of effective top-bottom energy strategies and to improve the prediction of forecasting models.This paper contributes to the present-day discussion and analyses the build-ing factors,socio-demographic variables and appliances contributing to high-energy expenditures(viz.,electrical energy expenditure,thermal energy expenditure and total energy expenditure)in the Italian households.The proposed study builds on an earlier work proposed by the authors,which identified the determinants of the household energy expenditures,based on a nationally representative survey(the“household Budget Survey:mi-crodata for research purposes-2015”performed by the Italian National Institute of Statistics).In particular,the present paper completes and extends the previous research by applying the odds-ratio analysis to the previously identified determinants,in order to identify the factors that led to high electricity consumption(viz.,electrical energy expenditure,thermal energy expenditure and total energy expenditure).In conclusion,this paper aims to providing a more precise understanding of the factors that certainly affect the energy expenditure.
文摘It is well known that the passive strategies applying in traditional buildings respond satisfactory to climatic requirements and succeed to provide maximum indoor comfort with minimum energy consumption.From this point of view,it is interesting to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the vernacular strategies to improve the environmental performance of the building's envelope under desert climate conditions.The research tries to address this issue and was undertaken in southern Algeria where a very hot and arid climate prevails.The effect of some selected passive cooling strategies on enhancing the building's envelope climate performance was examined.These strategies are inspired from the local vernacular architecture,and they are expected to provide satisfactory indoor thermal comfort for users and to reduce the energy cooling demand from residential buildings.Applying field and computational investigations,two existing residential buildings were tested:a typical residential unit and a contemporary vernacular(neo-vernacular)building.In the latter,climate responsive strategies inspired from vernacular architecture were applied.A comparison based on site measurements was carried out on the two selected buildings which differ from their envelope design properties and components.
