Two-Phase Decision Support Tool to Select Construction Strategies and Heating-Cooling Systems: A Case Study in a Desert Region

Lotfalian, Parisa; Lotfi, Mohammad Mehdi; Rezvanfar, Mohsen

doi:10.22034/jdmtp.2023.18059.1009

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/jdmtp.2023.18059.1009

Abstract

More than 40% of energy sources in the world are consumed in buildings; hence, greening all the activities in this sector, from design to operations and also retrofit, is challenging and necessary. This research aims to identify, evaluate and select various eco-friendly construction strategies and heating-cooling systems in the early stages of designing greenhouses. A decision support tool based on a two-phase framework is developed to make the corresponding decisions. As the first phase, an efficient bi-objective optimization model is formulated to optimize the envelope establishing a reasonable trade-off between construction costs and energy consumption. Accordingly, the heating and cooling loads are calculated considering all forms of heat exchange. In the second phase, the alternative heating-cooling systems are evaluated using an energy-cost criterion over a 10-year life cycle. The developed tool is implemented for a typical house in a desert region. As the results of the first phase, the total heat exchange of selected construction strategies for the house’s envelope is significantly less than the values of well-known standards, so the resulting energy consumption is only 0.22 times Iran’s standard. In the second phase, the required annual electricity of the house’s selected heating-cooling systems is approximately 21% lower than the reported values for the same place in that region.

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Main Subjects

Decision Support Systems

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Two-Phase Decision Support Tool to Select Construction Strategies and Heating-Cooling Systems: A Case Study in a Desert Region

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Volume 1, Issue 1
August 2023
Pages 89-113

Two-Phase Decision Support Tool to Select Construction Strategies and Heating-Cooling Systems: A Case Study in a Desert Region

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Volume 1, Issue 1August 2023Pages 89-113

Volume 1, Issue 1
August 2023
Pages 89-113