Methodology for Design Criteria Affecting the Energy Efficiency of High-Rise Buildings

Abstract

The research addressed the technological and environmental evolution of high-rise buildings, and studied how to achieve the optimal use of modern technological techniques represented in smart architecture to improve the indoor environment of high-rise buildings and achieve thermal comfort for users, as it has become necessary to keep pace with development, accommodate the increasing population density, in addition to working to improve and rationalize energy consumption in buildings to provide the principles of sustainability. High-rise buildings have become symbols of some countries or major cities, and they are sometimes a necessary requirement and an indispensable need, and at other times they are in themselves a unique creative artistic work. The importance of the research highlights the attempt to find a methodology to reduce energy consumption and environmentally friendly building materials in new high-rise administrative buildings to achieve thermal comfort inside the administrative spaces for the occupants, relying on technology, techniques, and measuring the efficiency of energy consumption and carbon emissions in line with the 2030 goals in both the design stage and the post-occupancy stage. Hence, there is an inevitable necessity to take unconventional scientific measures so that the building harmonizes with the surrounding environment to achieve the maximum degree of thermal comfort for the occupants, which requires further research to create a new generation of high-rise administrative buildings that have the ability to fully interact with the surrounding environment through an integrated system for the efficiency of the performance of administrative buildings in terms of providing the rate of energy consumption and compatibility with the surrounding environment. The construction of high-rise buildings requires advanced techniques in all technical aspects. It also represents architectural challenges at the same time. The research aims to prove the hypothesis that we can develop a methodology to improve the indoor environment of high-rise buildings and rationalize energy consumption to achieve sustainability principles through good design and optimal application of smart architecture techniques on the building envelope and its structural system. The goal is also to create an integration between the concepts of smart architecture and its tools with the principles and techniques of environmental architecture, and then to study a new architectural trend that can be called (high efficiency and architectural performance in skyscrapers) by developing a methodology to achieve energy efficiency for new administrative skyscrapers in Egypt. The research aims to reach an environmental approach in the process of achieving energy efficiency through the use of treatments on the envelopes of smart and sustainable buildings, as well as to reach applicable standards and mechanisms to activate the concepts and standards of improving building efficiency through the application of the latest advanced structural systems and modern building materials to find the relationship between the use of treatments on building envelopes in a methodology to reach the highest performance of energy efficiency for the exterior envelope of the administrative skyscraper using modern techniques in an applied approach. This represents a new field of study to find scientific and practical solutions to the energy problem in general, and to rely on the integration between design techniques and the use of modern treatments to achieve thermal comfort to improve the thermal performance of glass facades and their influence by modern technological systems, while maintaining the thermal comfort of the occupants of the space. This will work to reduce energy consumption, pollution rates, and the individual's sense of thermal comfort within the building.