Due to the increasing energy consumption in the world, energy efficiency has become the most important issue in sectors with high energy use such as industry, transportation, agriculture and construction. In many countries, the energy consumed in housing composes a large part of the total energy consumption. In Turkey, about 20% of total energy consumption is utilized in residential buildings and about 60% of this energy is used for heating. The energy consumed in residence buildings can be reduced by measures to decrease the heating and cooling loads. For this purpose, the main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of ventilated walls on the energy and cost performance of buildings. The energy and cost efficiency of 27 different ventilation walls with 3 different insulation thicknesses, 3 different ventilation gap thicknesses and 3 different cladding materials were compared with the reference wall. For a family of 3, a flat with a 2 + 1 plan was chosen for investigation and the flat is located in Trabzon, which represents the moderate-humid climate region. Flat plans with different ventilated walls were modeled using DesignBuilder energy simulation software and monthly/annual heating and cooling loads were obtained. Then, life cycle cost analysis has been conducted to investigate the cost effective ventilated wall types. Although the high initial investment costs of the investigated ventilated walls increase the life cycle costs, it has been observed that they provide energy savings in buildings.
Architecture is one of the world's oldest disciplines, related to a great many other disciplines such as mathematic, economics, art history, sociology, civil engineering and mechanical engineering. Its connection with a great many different disciplines has given increased social responsibility to the discipline of architecture. In this context, architecture, which is defined as designing buildings to fit dimensions in a physical environment, its art of construction and its science, should be performed by people who are self-confident, sociable, generally cultured, who can generate practical solutions, and are forward looking. People with the above characteristics can only grow in a good quality education-training environment. This environment depends on many different dynamics. The most important of these are social, cultural and educational dynamics. This study aims to understand how the quality of the education-training environment of architecture students can be improved. For this purpose, a survey was carried out with students who graduated from the Department of Architecture in 2006 and 2008, together with students who graduated before these dates. This survey asks questions regarding the social, cultural and education dynamics that affect the education-training environment of students, and tries to answer what contributions are made by these dynamics to the quality of this environment.
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