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Current potential research project
Optimising synergies between passive and active systems to achieve energy sustainability in buildings
- Supervisors: Prof. Wasim Saman
- Area: Mechanical Engineering, Sustainable Energy
- Abstract: Proponents of passive and active designs of buildings claim credit for achieving sustainability but both parties have not been able to prove their claims. Currently there has been no clear or undisputable method of showing the minimum energy consumption achievable at a "sustainable" level by employing each approach. It can be argued that a combined passive and active method can provide better solution for delivering thermal comfort while at the same time keeping the energy consumption low. This proposed research will develop a unified approach to synergies of these two design methodologies. The research will identify conditions of optimal synergy and potential conflicts that prevent this optimum synergy to occur. The outcome of this research is a design methodology which leads to the optimum synergy of both passive and active designs. This research project will be carried out on two types of buildings - residential and commercial - which have different characteristics in terms of size, function, number of occupants, etc. Therefore this topic can be split into two PhD research projects as follows:
- Title 1a: Optimising synergies between passive and active systems to achieve energy sustainability in residential buildings
- Title 1b: Optimising synergies between passive and active systems to achieve energy sustainability in commercial buildings
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