Investigating the effectiveness of self-shading strategy on overall thermal transfer value and window size in high rise buildings

• Main Authors: Nikpour, M., Kandar, Mohd. Zin, Ghomeshi, M., Moeinzadeh, N., Ghasemi, M.
• Format: Article
• Published: World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology 2011
• Subjects: TH Building construction
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29218/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

So much energy is used in high rise buildings to fulfill the basic needs of users such as lighting and thermal comfort. Malaysia has hot and humid climate, buildings especially high rise buildings receive unnecessary solar radiation that cause more solar heat gain. Energy use specially electricity c...