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Role of Space Layout and Building Envelope in Hospital Energy Performance—A Context of Warm Humid Climate in India
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Globally hospitals are among the most energy-intensive buildings due to their constant consumption patterns and varied kinds of activity. A fundamental challenge in hospitals is the requirement of suitable comfort conditions and indoor environment quality because of the widely varying conditions required by different types of occupants, especially in warm humid climates. The daily variation in temperature and humidity poses a challenge to ensure thermal comfort in tropical buildings where the air conditioning system has a substantial energy share. There is a need to significantly reduce hospital energy consumption through mechanical systems by incorporating environmentally conscious design, such as solar control, daylighting, and natural ventilation. Envelope design along with efficient space layout is primarily governed by requirements of heat gain and losses, ventilation, and daylighting in a warm humid climate. This paper aims to explore the efficient space layout and significant envelope design variables to reduce the mechanical load by providing efficient energy performance in the hospital building. This research is established on a theoretical approach backed mainly by the conclusions of a literature review and simulation-based analysis of a small hospital located in the southern coastal region of India. The study will give further directions to develop optimal solutions concerning envelope parameters as well as space layout variants to enhance the energy performance of healthcare buildings in warm humid climates.
Role of Space Layout and Building Envelope in Hospital Energy Performance—A Context of Warm Humid Climate in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-7981
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3874-2232
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-8944
Globally hospitals are among the most energy-intensive buildings due to their constant consumption patterns and varied kinds of activity. A fundamental challenge in hospitals is the requirement of suitable comfort conditions and indoor environment quality because of the widely varying conditions required by different types of occupants, especially in warm humid climates. The daily variation in temperature and humidity poses a challenge to ensure thermal comfort in tropical buildings where the air conditioning system has a substantial energy share. There is a need to significantly reduce hospital energy consumption through mechanical systems by incorporating environmentally conscious design, such as solar control, daylighting, and natural ventilation. Envelope design along with efficient space layout is primarily governed by requirements of heat gain and losses, ventilation, and daylighting in a warm humid climate. This paper aims to explore the efficient space layout and significant envelope design variables to reduce the mechanical load by providing efficient energy performance in the hospital building. This research is established on a theoretical approach backed mainly by the conclusions of a literature review and simulation-based analysis of a small hospital located in the southern coastal region of India. The study will give further directions to develop optimal solutions concerning envelope parameters as well as space layout variants to enhance the energy performance of healthcare buildings in warm humid climates.
Role of Space Layout and Building Envelope in Hospital Energy Performance—A Context of Warm Humid Climate in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-7981
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3874-2232
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4776-8944
Globally hospitals are among the most energy-intensive buildings due to their constant consumption patterns and varied kinds of activity. A fundamental challenge in hospitals is the requirement of suitable comfort conditions and indoor environment quality because of the widely varying conditions required by different types of occupants, especially in warm humid climates. The daily variation in temperature and humidity poses a challenge to ensure thermal comfort in tropical buildings where the air conditioning system has a substantial energy share. There is a need to significantly reduce hospital energy consumption through mechanical systems by incorporating environmentally conscious design, such as solar control, daylighting, and natural ventilation. Envelope design along with efficient space layout is primarily governed by requirements of heat gain and losses, ventilation, and daylighting in a warm humid climate. This paper aims to explore the efficient space layout and significant envelope design variables to reduce the mechanical load by providing efficient energy performance in the hospital building. This research is established on a theoretical approach backed mainly by the conclusions of a literature review and simulation-based analysis of a small hospital located in the southern coastal region of India. The study will give further directions to develop optimal solutions concerning envelope parameters as well as space layout variants to enhance the energy performance of healthcare buildings in warm humid climates.
Role of Space Layout and Building Envelope in Hospital Energy Performance—A Context of Warm Humid Climate in India
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
Nandineni, Rama Devi (editor) / Ang, Susan (editor) / Mohd Nawawi, Norwina Binti (editor) / Harshalatha (author) / Patil, Shantharam (author) / Kini, Pradeep G. (author)
International conference on Variability of the Sun and sun-like stars: from asteroseismology to space weather ; 2022
2024-07-06
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Hospitals , Warm humid , Space layout , Energy performance , Envelope Environment , Sustainable Development , Cyber-physical systems, IoT , Professional Computing , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Social Work and Community Development , Environmental Management , Earth and Environmental Science
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