This research contributes to making residential buildings more efficient in the city of Azraq, Jordan, which is located in a warm climate zone in the Saharan Mediterranean region (classified as a hot desert climate according to the Köppen climate classification). It involved the optimisation of several envelope parameters with the aim of reducing the usage of energy within a normal structure occupying an area of 186 m² without the occupants’ involvement in saving energy in the building to solely measure the building envelope’s thermal performance. The DesignBuilder software was used for the sensitivity analysis using 12 design variables, which enabled their significance for both cooling and heating loads. The selected variables were separated into two categories based on their level of significance: a group with higher importance (window to wall %, local type of shading, ground floor building, natural rate of ventilation, rate of infiltration, kind of glazing, and flat roof structure) as well as a group with lower importance (partition construction, site position, construction of outside walls, kind of window blinds, and window shade control timetable); these variables will save a significant amount of heating and cooling energy.

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温暖的撒哈拉地中海气候带中的最佳建筑设计变量

这项研究有助于使位于约旦阿兹拉克市的住宅建筑更高效，该市位于撒哈拉地中海地区的温暖气候区（根据柯本气候分类，沙漠气候为高温）。它涉及对几个包络参数的优化，目的是减少占地186 m ²的普通结构内的能量使用无需占用者参与节省建筑物能源来仅测量建筑物围护结构的热性能。DesignBuilder软件用于使用12个设计变量进行灵敏度分析，这使它们对于制冷和制热负荷均具有重要意义。根据重要性的高低将选定的变量分为两类：重要性较高的一组（窗口对墙壁的百分比，局部阴影类型，底层建筑，自然通风率，渗透率，玻璃类型和平坦度）屋顶结构）以及重要性较低的一组人员（隔断结构，工地位置，外墙结构，百叶窗的种类以及窗帘控制时间表）; 这些变量将节省大量的加热和冷却能量。