TITLE:
Assessment of Minimizing the Environmental Functions Conflict in Buildings
AUTHORS:
Amal Kamal Mohamed Shamseldin
KEYWORDS:
Human Comfort, Environmental Assessment Methods of Buildings, Periodical Variables, Sequential and Sudden Variables, Building Functions Conflict, Building Automation and Control
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.4 No.2,
June
2,
2016
ABSTRACT: Some building components are responsible for achieving more than one environmental function,
these functions are usually of different requirements that can never be done by the same actions,
and they are usually connected to changeable internal and external environment characteristics
that vary among them. Minimizing the conflict of achieving the different environmental functions
is an important challenge for all designers. Achieving a continuous thermal and optical comfort in
an internal building space using the same window is an example of this challenge, as they have
different requirements that may be sometimes contrary. It should be notable that there are a lot of
recent technologies that may be used to find solutions for such a conflict. The Environmental Assessment
Methods of Buildings appeared to set the principles of the optimum relation between
buildings and their environment, they also could be used to encourage designers to reach the best
environmental relations, and award them by main or additional assessment points. The research
paper proposes to use the Environmental Assessment Methods of Buildings to assess the building
ability of minimizing its environmental functions achievement conflict. This proposal depends on
determining the inconsistency assessment items that depend on common building components to
be achieved, and then determining the time periods that these items are achieved together within,
to indicate the time periods without conflicting. Thus, the paper aims to raise the building environmental
value in the assessment when the designer succeeds to minimize the expected conflict
of the building environmental functions.