Shading Percentage Effects on Energy Consumption for Bahraini Residential Buildings

Energy consumption is a very important topic these days especially regarding air conditioning in residential buildings, since this takes the biggest amount of energy in buildings total consumption, residential buildings constitute the biggest percentage of energy consumption in Bahrain. This research reflects on the effects of shading percentage in different solar orientations on the energy consumption inside residential buildings (domestic dwellings). The research as found that, there are different effects of shading in changing building orientation: • 0.69% for the shading percentage 25% when the building is oriented to the north (0o); • 18.59% for 75% of shading in north-west orientation (325o); • The best effect for shading is in north-west orientation (315o); • The less effect for shading was in case of the building orientation is the north (0o). Keywords—Bahraini buildings, Building shading, energy consumption, residential buildings, shading effects.