Energy-Saving Experimental House in Hot-Humid Climate of Malaysia

Kubota, Tetsu; Zakaria, Mohd Azuan; Ahmad, Mohd Hamdan; Toe, Doris Hooi Chyee

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-8465-2_43

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“…This means that the AC ownership is a factor that prevents occupants from opening windows in the evening and night. This is mainly because the AC owners in the tropics mainly use AC in the evening and night in their bedrooms while closing windows, as reported in [3,6,63,64]. Therefore, AC ownership in the living room has no association with the window-opening behaviour in this study.…”

Section: Daily Patterns Of Window-openingmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…As discussed before, night ventilation is one of the effective passive cooling techniques even in the tropics for achieving indoor thermal comfort [3,6,8,11]. However, as shown here, most of the households in the hot and humid cities do not open their windows during night-time even without owning AC.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Given the need to achieve sustainable societies, passive design, in particular the application of natural ventilation, is considered a feasible strategy for reducing energy consumption for cooling without sacrificing thermal comfort in the hot and humid climates [4,5]. Several studies were conducted to determine passive cooling techniques in naturally ventilated buildings to achieve indoor thermal comfort and to reduce the energy consumption for cooling in the hot and humid climates of Asia [6][7][8][9].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Analysis of Window-Opening Patterns and Air Conditioning Usage of Urban Residences in Tropical Southeast Asia

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Window-opening is one of the most important adaptive behaviours affecting indoor thermal comfort as well as household energy consumption in the tropics. In this study, large-scale surveys were conducted in major cities of Malaysia and Indonesia to extract various typical daily patterns of window-opening, air conditioning (AC) usage and fan usage among occupants in the tropics through a data mining approach based on a cluster analysis. Furthermore, influential factors for window-opening patterns, focusing especially on contextual factors and household attributes, were determined through a logistic regression analysis. As a result, several typical daily patterns of window-opening, AC usage and fan usage were extracted, respectively, even under the same hot-humid climate. It was found that household size, age of respondent, household income and concerns about insects were the most influential factors for daily window-opening patterns. The results of this study will fill the existing knowledge gap in driving factors of occupant behaviour in the tropics in which few studies have been conducted.

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“…16). Based on the previous research [12], thermal insulation on the wall and ceiling is effective to prevent heat from transferring to indoor spaces. Moreover, exhaust fan and louver are installed on the upper ceiling to optimize forcednight ventilation that will cool the PCM below the floor slab.…”

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Low Carbon Affordable Apartments in Hot-Humid Climate of Indonesia: Design Concept of the Full-Scale Experimental House

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Larasati³

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Proceedings of the EduARCHsia &Amp; Senvar 2019 International Conference (EduARCHsia 2019)

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In Indonesia, GHG emissions are expected to increase up to 1,751 MtCO2e in 2030. In parallel, as a response towards the Paris Agreement, the Indonesian government has made a commitment through NDC to reduce the carbon emissions by 2030. On the other hand, the Indonesian population continues to increase, leading to the issue of housing backlog. Accordingly, the government released a nationwide project "Program Sejuta Rumah" in 2015 to provide affordable houses wherein will inevitably arise the carbon emission. A mid-rise apartment is constructed in Tegal as a full-scale experimental house to propose a new standard type of lowcarbon affordable apartment as a solution for future Indonesian housing. This paper describes the design concept of the proposed low-carbon apartment based on the results of several fundamental studies, including a typological study of existing apartments, local weather analysis, and CFD simulation. This research found some interesting design concept such as the effectiveness of vertical narrow-closed atrium, the performance of wind fin, and the potential of wind catcher. Those results will be proven further experimentally in this real scale project.

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Energy-Saving Experimental House in Hot-Humid Climate of Malaysia

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Analysis of Window-Opening Patterns and Air Conditioning Usage of Urban Residences in Tropical Southeast Asia

Analysis of Window-Opening Patterns and Air Conditioning Usage of Urban Residences in Tropical Southeast Asia

Low Carbon Affordable Apartments in Hot-Humid Climate of Indonesia: Design Concept of the Full-Scale Experimental House

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