Investigating the Relative Importance of Spatial and Environmental Factors on Energy Consumption in the Residential Sectors Using GIS (Case Study: Kerman)

A large number of factors affect the energy consumption a building. These can be categorized into building-related and space-related factors. The purpose this study was to use geospatial information system (GIS) estimate analyze relative importance within either group model gas electricity several randomly selected residential buildings in city Kerman, Iran. considered were age, area, price building, elevation, vegetation cover, land surface temperature. results showed that cover most important for consumption, while age building temperature affected more than others.