Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance

<p>As an ingenious efficient environment, smart buildings can be considered as essential constituents for energy conservation. That is, in today's energy demands upsurges and energy sources degradation, the idea of the smart home building has a major implication on improving the living en...

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Autores principales: Emad A. Awada, Amal Abed, Eyad Radwan, Aws Al-Qaisi, Ayman Y. Al-Rawashdeh
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f96b15aead43472fa89d6b11fcfa24282021-11-12T07:27:32ZEnergy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance2146-4553https://doaj.org/article/f96b15aead43472fa89d6b11fcfa24282021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/11717https://doaj.org/toc/2146-4553<p>As an ingenious efficient environment, smart buildings can be considered as essential constituents for energy conservation. That is, in today's energy demands upsurges and energy sources degradation, the idea of the smart home building has a major implication on improving the living environment along with cutting down on energy consumptions.  Therefore, this study investigates the energy conservation theme in Amman, Jordan in terms of opportunities and challenges vs. renewable energy technology. This study was based on interviews with the expert (academics, professionals architects, and electrical engineers, in addition to employees in Electrical companies) aiming to identify the problematic gap in designing theoretical analysis of a smart automated building based on collaboration work between Electrical and Architectural Engineering.  From an Electrical Engineering point of view, automated control building systems can provide efficient means of comfort, sustainable habitat environment, and energy conservation as a building advantage.  Such a scheme can be accomplished through automated control software (LabView), sensors, network infrastructure, logic design, and mechanical actuators.  Meanwhile, from an architecture point of view, passive design strategies can reduce energy consumption along with public awareness for building users.  This was implemented through simulation for base case building showing the integration between architectural and electrical systems through using a hybrid system. As a result, this new building automation design will help reducing energy consumption by controlling light fixtures, air-condition, water pumps, and many more appliances.  The design guidelines, once formulated and enacted, will guarantee energy conservation qualitatively which will serve as a proposed guideline for enhancing buildings' regulation and codes.</p><p class="Text"><strong>Keywords</strong><em>:</em> Energy Conservation, Sustainable Strategy, Smart Building, Indoor Built Environment.</p><p class="Text"><strong>JEL Classifications: </strong>Q2, Q3, Q4</p><p class="Text">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11717">https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11717</a></p>Emad A. AwadaAmal AbedEyad RadwanAws Al-QaisiAyman Y. Al-RawashdehEconJournalsarticleEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350Energy industries. Energy policy. Fuel tradeHD9502-9502.5ENInternational Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Vol 11, Iss 6, Pp 408-417 (2021)
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topic Environmental sciences
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Energy industries. Energy policy. Fuel trade
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Energy industries. Energy policy. Fuel trade
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Emad A. Awada
Amal Abed
Eyad Radwan
Aws Al-Qaisi
Ayman Y. Al-Rawashdeh
Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
description <p>As an ingenious efficient environment, smart buildings can be considered as essential constituents for energy conservation. That is, in today's energy demands upsurges and energy sources degradation, the idea of the smart home building has a major implication on improving the living environment along with cutting down on energy consumptions.  Therefore, this study investigates the energy conservation theme in Amman, Jordan in terms of opportunities and challenges vs. renewable energy technology. This study was based on interviews with the expert (academics, professionals architects, and electrical engineers, in addition to employees in Electrical companies) aiming to identify the problematic gap in designing theoretical analysis of a smart automated building based on collaboration work between Electrical and Architectural Engineering.  From an Electrical Engineering point of view, automated control building systems can provide efficient means of comfort, sustainable habitat environment, and energy conservation as a building advantage.  Such a scheme can be accomplished through automated control software (LabView), sensors, network infrastructure, logic design, and mechanical actuators.  Meanwhile, from an architecture point of view, passive design strategies can reduce energy consumption along with public awareness for building users.  This was implemented through simulation for base case building showing the integration between architectural and electrical systems through using a hybrid system. As a result, this new building automation design will help reducing energy consumption by controlling light fixtures, air-condition, water pumps, and many more appliances.  The design guidelines, once formulated and enacted, will guarantee energy conservation qualitatively which will serve as a proposed guideline for enhancing buildings' regulation and codes.</p><p class="Text"><strong>Keywords</strong><em>:</em> Energy Conservation, Sustainable Strategy, Smart Building, Indoor Built Environment.</p><p class="Text"><strong>JEL Classifications: </strong>Q2, Q3, Q4</p><p class="Text">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11717">https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11717</a></p>
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author Emad A. Awada
Amal Abed
Eyad Radwan
Aws Al-Qaisi
Ayman Y. Al-Rawashdeh
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Amal Abed
Eyad Radwan
Aws Al-Qaisi
Ayman Y. Al-Rawashdeh
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title Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
title_short Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
title_full Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
title_fullStr Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
title_full_unstemmed Energy Conservation as a Sustainable Strategy for Smart Home Buildings in Amman, Jordan with Improving Indoor Built Environment features and key performance
title_sort energy conservation as a sustainable strategy for smart home buildings in amman, jordan with improving indoor built environment features and key performance
publisher EconJournals
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