Energy-Scape Web-Based Application is an Effective Tool to Overcome the Basic Knowledge of Architects Toward Renewable Energy Properties

Authors

  • Rania Ruhdy Moussa Faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)
  • Khaled Mohamed Dewidar Faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i10.13669

Keywords:

Sustainable City, Energy-scape Elements (ESE), Energy-scape software (ESS), Ener-gy-scape database (ESD), Landscape elements, Renewable Energy.

Abstract


In last few years, research on renewables were shifted from integrating renewable energy (RE) with buildings into integrating renewable energy (RE) within urban environment due to the large occupies of urban areas in comparing to the building foot print. Urban areas such as urban landscape areas have a great potential in generating huge amount of energy that could satisfy the needs of urban neighbor-hoods. The presented research identify the properties of a new elements called Energy-scape elements (ESE) that integrates RE devices with urban landscape el-ements. This research focuses on analyzing the efficiency of web-based applica-tion called “Energy-scape software” (ESS) and compare its efficiency with Ener-gy-scape database (ESD) through a qualitative method. The research concludes that Energy-scape software (ESS) application is an effective tool for implement-ing Energy-scape elements (ESE) and it overcome the basic knowledge of archi-tects and landscape designers toward renewable properties. Moreover, it identi-fies the optimum type and location of Energy-scape elements (ESE) within a spe-cific project, and it calculates the impact of using Energy-scape elements (ESE) in term of energy-savings.

Author Biographies

Rania Ruhdy Moussa, Faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)

Lecturer in Architecture department, faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)

Khaled Mohamed Dewidar, Faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)

professor, Vice dean for the faculty of Engineering, The British university in Egypt (BUE)

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Published

2020-06-01

How to Cite

Ruhdy Moussa, R., & Mohamed Dewidar, K. (2020). Energy-Scape Web-Based Application is an Effective Tool to Overcome the Basic Knowledge of Architects Toward Renewable Energy Properties. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(10), pp. 42–54. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i10.13669

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 10 (2020)

Section

Papers

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