A review and assessment of energy policy in the Middle East and North Africa region

S Griffiths - Energy Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy landscape of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has undergone a
significant transformation in recent years as a result of intersecting technological, economic …

Energy savings strategy for the residential sector in Libya and its impacts on the global environment and the nation economy

M Abdunnabi, N Etiab, YF Nassar… - Advances in Building …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The energy consumption of the Libyan common house is estimated through the use of
simulation namely, the TRNSYS simulation programme and other tools to reach the best …

A study of different envelope scenarios towards low carbon high-rise buildings in the Mediterranean climate-can DSF be part of the solution?

T Saroglou, T Theodosiou, B Givoni, IA Meir - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
The numbers of high-rise buildings around the world increase rapidly. However, this fast
pace is not in tandem with the expertise gained on how to design this building typology to …

Cost-benefit analysis of green buildings: An Israeli office buildings case study

H Gabay, IA Meir, M Schwartz, E Werzberger - Energy and buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
Are green buildings costlier to build than conventional ones? If yes, by how much? How can
we find out? Those questions have been asked for years, but answers have been of limited …

Metamodeling the heating and cooling energy needs and simultaneous building envelope optimization for low energy building design in Morocco

Z Romani, A Draoui, F Allard - Energy and Buildings, 2015 - Elsevier
The building sector is the largest consumer of energy in Morocco with a share of about 36%
of the overall energy consumption of the country. This rate is likely to increase if the new …

Utilizing Design Objectives and Key Performance Indicators as a Means for Multi-Species Building Envelopes

ST Saroglou, SU Selvan, L Windorfer, WW Weisser… - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Population growth, urbanization, and climate change have significantly contributed to
environmental degradation, posing severe consequences for humans and other species. By …

Towards energy efficient skyscrapers

T Saroglou, IA Meir, T Theodosiou, B Givoni - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
As of 2007 more than half of the world's population is living in urban areas (a figure
expected to rise to 60% by 2030). Thus, the liveability of the high-density city is gradually …

A state-of-the-art review on readiness assessment tools in the adoption of renewable energy

A Sudarsan, C Kurukkanari, D Bendi - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
The goal for a sustainable tomorrow has been in focus for quite some time. The significance
of renewable energy in achieving that goal is unavoidable. The necessity for transitioning …

The impact of the building envelope on the energy efficiency of residential tall buildings in Saudi Arabia

N Ghabra, L Rodrigues, P Oldfield - International Journal of Low …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, the authors explored the hypothesis that the most common approach to
improve a building's energy efficiency in the hot climate of Saudi Arabia, which focuses on …

Towards an environmental approach for the sustainability of buildings in Algeria

H Tebbouche, A Bouchair, S Grimes - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Sustainable architecture (HQE in France, Green Buildings in the USA, Sustainable Buildings
in Northern Europe) is a profound initiative whose objective is to achieve sustainability of …