THE EFFECTS OF GLAZING AREA INTERVENTIONS AND PCM APPLICATION IN BUILDING ENERGY RETROFITS


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Hasan Tunay Cengiz

Asıl Danışman (Eş Danışmanlı Tezler İçin): Gülay Zorer Gedik

Eş Danışman: Ezgi Korkmaz

Özet:

The buildings and construction sector is responsible for 39% of CO2 emissions in the world which have a direct impact on climate change. To mitigate these effects of the sector, the existing building stock needs to be improved. One of the methods for improving the building stock is to enhance the physical properties of the building envelopes with building energy retrofits. 

Turkey’s climate will gradually get warmer and drier with unstable precipitation with the effect of climate change. Furthermore, it is reported that the temperature increases in the summer period in the world between 2016-2100 will be higher than the increases in the winter period. Due to this trend, the importance of reducing the cooling loads of the buildings in the summer period is increasing.

The aim of this study is to show the effect of a series of building envelope interventions on the energy consumption of existing buildings located in different climates. The regions where the application example is located are ˙ Istanbul with temperate-humid and Diyarbakır with dry-hot climate, and the selected energy retrofit interventions are solar shading implementation, glass system replacement and phase change material application.

The thesis study consists of four chapters. In the first chapter, the background of the subject is explained, the studies on the subject are evaluated, the aim, scope, methodology and hypotheses of the thesis are explained. In the second chapter, the concepts and variables used in the thesis are explained. In the third chapter, the specifications of the application example building are explained, the energy consumption of the base case of the building is calculated, the properties of the energy retrofit interventions are explained in detail, and the energy consumption of each intervention is shown. In the fourth chapter, the results and discussions of the thesis study are presented.

Keywords: Building energy retrofits, building energy efficiency, glazing area interventions, solar shading implementation, phase change materials