Windows are one of the thermally weakest parts of a building envelope and climate change is becoming an increasingly important parameter in evaluating the energy performance of buildings. This study investigated the effect ...

The aim of this study is to determine the changing contribution of passive design strategies to maintain thermal comfort conditions under climate change in Turkey. A bioclimatic chart developed by Givoni was used for the ...

Adobe structures offer a number of advantages such as providing a high level of physical comfort conditions, low initial costs and low lifecycle costs. These characteristics of adobe structures make them an alternative ...

Built environment is a problematic issue from an energy use perspective because an important part of total energy consumption in countries is usually caused by existing buildings. Current buildings stock constructed before ...

This study analyzes a longitudinal series of Ankara apartment houses using space syntax methodology to uncover the underlying genotype and its transformation over time. The results indicate that transition-space-centred ...

The best known disadvantages of adobe are its low mechanical properties and poor resistance to water damage. In this research waste phosphogypsum (PG) and natural gypsum were used as stabilization material to improve the ...

The main objective of this research was to investigate the utilization potential of phosphogypsum with fly ash and lime in construction industry. Phosphogypsum was used as raw and calcined material for making the cementitous ...

Night ventilation is one of the passive cooling techniques commonly used and various theoretical and experimental studies on this subject are available in the literature. However, the effects of climate change are not taken ...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the use of diatomite as a partial replacement for cement in the production of cement mortar. Diatomite was used at 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% replacement by weight for cement while ...

The growing amount of waste rubber produced from used tires has resulted in an environmental problem. Recycling waste tires has been widely studied for the last 20 years in applications such as asphalt pavement, waterproofing ...