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Abstract
Current research and software are focusing on energy simulations and PV performance assessment on building envelope, in addition to optimize PV performance from both energy generation and economic perspectives, without addressing the optimal building envelope that achieves better energy generation and lower cost as a Building-integrated PV (BIPV). Hence, there is a need to develop approaches that respond to this need. This thesis aims at developing a computational approach that optimizes the integration of PVs in building envelope, and office buildings in Egypt is focused on to study that approach. The outcome of this research is to provide building designers/users at the conceptual design stages with a computational tool that generates alternatives of BIPVs that best-suit a given building in a specific context. This includes building envelope reformation, optimal integration of PV modules, alternatives classification and evaluation of these alternatives quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the optimal ones.
Current research and software are focusing on energy simulations and PV performance assessment on building envelope, in addition to optimize PV performance from both energy generation and economic perspectives, without addressing the optimal building envelope that achieves better energy generation and lower cost as a Building-integrated PV (BIPV). Hence, there is a need to develop approaches that respond to this need. This thesis aims at developing a computational approach that optimizes the integration of PVs in building envelope, and office buildings in Egypt is focused on to study that approach. The outcome of this research is to provide building designers/users at the conceptual design stages with a computational tool that generates alternatives of BIPVs that best-suit a given building in a specific context. This includes building envelope reformation, optimal integration of PV modules, alternatives classification and evaluation of these alternatives quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the optimal ones.
Current research and software are focusing on energy simulations and PV performance assessment on building envelope, in addition to optimize PV performance from both energy generation and economic perspectives, without addressing the optimal building envelope that achieves better energy generation and lower cost as a Building-integrated PV (BIPV). Hence, there is a need to develop approaches that respond to this need. This thesis aims at developing a computational approach that optimizes the integration of PVs in building envelope, and office buildings in Egypt is focused on to study that approach. The outcome of this research is to provide building designers/users at the conceptual design stages with a computational tool that generates alternatives of BIPVs that best-suit a given building in a specific context. This includes building envelope reformation, optimal integration of PV modules, alternatives classification and evaluation of these alternatives quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the optimal ones.
Current research and software are focusing on energy simulations and PV performance assessment on building envelope, in addition to optimize PV performance from both energy generation and economic perspectives, without addressing the optimal building envelope that achieves better energy generation and lower cost as a Building-integrated PV (BIPV). Hence, there is a need to develop approaches that respond to this need. This thesis aims at developing a computational approach that optimizes the integration of PVs in building envelope, and office buildings in Egypt is focused on to study that approach. The outcome of this research is to provide building designers/users at the conceptual design stages with a computational tool that generates alternatives of BIPVs that best-suit a given building in a specific context. This includes building envelope reformation, optimal integration of PV modules, alternatives classification and evaluation of these alternatives quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the optimal ones.