Energy Assessment of the Thermal Bridging Effects on Different Structural Envelope Types Using Mixed-Equivalent-Wall Method

In this paper, the effect of house envelopes including thermal bridges on daily, monthly, and annual consumption air conditioning system a detached an attached house, with façade in east, west, north, or south direction, is investigated; moreover, capacity calculated for houses based maximum hourly peak load during severe weather conditions. The four tested are exterior insulation finish (EIFS), autoclaved aerated concrete block (AAC-B), classical (cement blocks between), AAC column beam (AAC-CB). work conducted using method that combines finite element (COMSOL Multiphysics), building simulation (EnergyPlus), Engineering Equation Solver (EES) programs. results indicated AAC-B, classical, AAC-CB larger than EIFS by about 3.74, 11.53, 20.70% 1.8, 2.9%, 6.7% respectively. conditioner average 25.3, 27.7, 35.8, 41.7% EIFS, envelopes, Using different directions envelope type 8.84%, standard deviation 0.466%.