With the prevalent use of large glazings, particularly in office buildings, offices receive an abundance light and are among largest consumers electricity. Moreover, extreme hot arid climate such as UAE, achieving comfortable daylighting levels without increasing solar heat gain is a challenge, which window or fenestration design plays essential role. This research adopts case study higher educ...

Background: The green building industry has significantly impacted the construction market, providing various sustainable solutions for community. However, conventional standards have yet to adequately address occupant health and well-being, leading challenges with performance. This caused many businesses take note of latest report from Bureau Labour Statistics, whic...

introduction reducing and optimizing energy consumption and consequently environmental pollution reductions, besides improving building performance providing occupants comfort conditions, make the building's concept closer to the concept of green building and sustainability. once the decision to build green has been made, one of the first steps in the green design process is to establish f...