The Role of Green Roofs in Reducing the Rate of Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Higher Education Buildings

  • Dr. Mahmoud Attiya Mohamed Ali, Basma Sherin Mohy Eldin

Abstract

The selection of spaces for faculty members in university buildings has a great impact on improving job performance by achieving the space for comfort, whether thermal comfort or visual comfort. The research deals with the problem of increasing the rate of co2 emissions for the spaces of the faculty members due to the inefficiency of the building envelope, The main aim of the research is to reduce the rate of carbon dioxide emissions by planting the roofs above the space under study and by adding thermal insulation polystyrene on the roofs in different cases with thicknesses of 2 cm, 4 cm, and 8 cm, and taking into account the appropriate direction through an application study using the simulation program DesignBuilder 6.0 for the spaces of the faculty members for buildings Higher education, which is a case study of the October High Institute for Engineering and Technology, and the results indicate that green roof is the spaces of the faculty member’s model of higher education buildings with the addition of thermal insulation polystyrene thickness of 8 cm works to reduce the rate of CO2 emissions by more than 21% from the base case.

Published
2021-06-06
How to Cite
Dr. Mahmoud Attiya Mohamed Ali, Basma Sherin Mohy Eldin. (2021). The Role of Green Roofs in Reducing the Rate of Carbon Dioxide Emissions for Higher Education Buildings. Design Engineering, 1957 - 1969. Retrieved from http://www.thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/1897
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