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Energy Performance: A Comparison Of Four Different Multi- Residential Building Designs And Forms In The Equatorial Region, Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin, Nila Keumala, Ati Rosemary Mohd Ariffin, Hazreena Hussein

Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin

Building sector has been identified as a major energy consumer with nearly half of the world’s energy used is associated with providing environmental conditioning in buildings. Approximately, two third of this is for heating, cooling and mechanical ventilation. Therefore, there is a need for optimizing the building design which collaborates with surrounding environment in enhances the energy conservation programme. Energy consumption evaluation and audits for buildings is the most important step that can contribute to energy conservation. As preliminary studies to this research, four low-rise residential college buildings with specific layout were selected in finding the relationship between green/passive building …