Energy Saving Potential Due to Refurbishment of Federal Public Housing in the UAE - Engineering

ENG > Vol.5 No.1, January 2013

Energy Saving Potential Due to Refurbishment of Federal Public Housing in the UAE ()

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DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.51B024 6,219 Downloads 7,978 Views Citations

Author(s)

Wafa AlAwadhi, Athari AlNaqbi, Abeer Manneh, Ayoub Kazim, Bassam Abu-Hijleh

Affiliation(s)

Dubai International Academic City, Education Cluster, TECOM Investments, Dubai-UAE.
Faculty of Engineering & IT, The British University in Dubai, Dubai-UAE.

ABSTRACT

This paper, computer energy modeling is used to estimate the potential energy savings of refurbishing existing public federal housing in the United Arab Emirates. Such houses are built by the UAE Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) in five of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation. The energy modeling was performed using the Integrated Environmental Solutions-Virtual Environment (IES-VE) commercial software. The study covered representative MoPW houses built in the period of 1974-2012. The results indicate potential energy savings upto 30.8% for the case of model 717 when refurbished to 2 Pearls standards compared to the as built configuration. The results showed little benefit in going from 1 Pearl to 2 Pearls refurbishment level. Thus 1 Pearl seems to be the most practical. This shows the high potential for energy, and thus environmental, savings should refurbishment be carried out on the homes built by the MoPW.

KEYWORDS

energy modeling, energy savings, refurbishment, UAE

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W. AlAwadhi, A. AlNaqbi, A. Manneh, A. Kazim and B. Abu-Hijleh, "Energy Saving Potential Due to Refurbishment of Federal Public Housing in the UAE," Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 1B, 2013, pp. 132-136. doi: 10.4236/eng.2013.51B024.

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