A. Alshboul

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of Architecture Engineering

In classrooms, several variables may affect students’ thermal comfort, and hence health, well-being, and learning performance. In particular, the type of learning activity may play a role in students’ thermal comfort. However, most of the previous research has mainly investigated the thermal comfort of students in ordinary classrooms, while less at...

One of the fundamental parameters for low energy architecture strategies implementations is to allow solar sun penetration into buildings, which can contribute to free heating in buildings and reduce energy consumption during cold season; through many design strategies that could be applied to buildings. This is not easily achieved until a complete...

Electric lighting is one of the major energy consuming items in many non-domestic buildings. Using day lighting schemes can help reduce the electrical demand and contribute to the visual comfort and green building development. Building energy saving for engineering structures have obtained the worldwide attention. There is an essential need to deve...

For the calculation of energy and other flows in urban environments, we should take as a starting point relatively stable urban settlements. This makes it possible to calculate in and outgoing flows accurately, but only at a single moment in time. In this paper an adjusted approach to urban metabolism is proposed in which dynamic circumstances can...

The price of crude oil is ever increasing in Jordan. Energy is the main and most fundamental source for economy and construction industries. Given the fact that material manufacturing and construction in building sector need certain amounts of energy, which is called “embodied energy”. The increase of energy prices is reflected on material manufact...

Windows are considered as the major source of heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer. Air infiltration has a major effect on perceived performance of the window. The present paper describes the influence of infiltration on the energy balance for residential buildings. A comparison between fixed fenestration and other types of fenestration syst...

The present paper describes an example of an energy rating windows for residential buildings in Jordan. It focuses on the thermal properties of the available windows in the market in Jordan. Windows have a great effect on the heating and cooling requirements costs of a building, and the comfort level experienced by its occupants. Windows are consid...

The influence of windows on the energy balance of apartment buildings in Amman is investigated by using self developed simulation software (SDS) based on the ASHRAE tables for solar heat gain calculation and coaling load factor for latitude 32°, where Amman city is located. The calculations of energy saving are made to find out the influence of win...

The study of 20th century residential housing in Amman has shown that several plans illustrating the different stages of growth in the city has made it possible to review how housing design evolved in Jordan as well as the relationship between the spatial organisation and planimetric distribution of housing units and other variables influenced by t...

The concept of solar energy conscious design has emerged worldwide with the growing number of high-rise apartment buildings. It is important to think of maximizing solar energy utilization in buildings through architectural design strategies. This should lead to the setting up of mandatory regulations on both urban and building design levels.This s...

Due to high costs in the building industry, this research focuses on tracking the manufacturing processes of natural stone including quarrying, transportation, sawing, and finishing. The study investigated the local conditions for embodied energy estimation in Jordan. Of 52 quarries in Jordan, a sample of 25 quarries was studied focusing on the man...

The need for effective evacuation of any building is of great importance in cases of emergency and risk. In this paper, a mathematical approach is developed and presented for the purpose of modelling and analyzing the evacuation process of public buildings. Total evacuation time as well as the risk of evacuees under different evacuation routings an...

Energy is a chronic problem in Jordan, due to lack of natural energy resources, jordan mainly depends on imported fuel which lets Jordan influenced continuously by the international fuel prices changes; this in turn, is reflected on the end consumer in achieving his energy basic needs. This study tries to shed light on the fuel poverty line, defini...