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Daylighting in School BuildingsOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Daylighting is considered one of the main elements of space identification
and, consequently, it is a major component of space quality. It can play a
significant role in resource conservation, occupants‘ level of productivity,
health, and comfort. In school buildings, the absence of adequate indoor
comfort levels can greatly influence students’ learning ability. During the
last decades, Egypt faced some problems in the increase of annual school
enrollment, high classroom density, and inadequate lands manifested in
existing school extensions. All these problems affected classrooms
daylighting performance. This research main goal is to establish a
decision-making process modeling for enhancing daylighting performance
in existing public school extensions. Conducting this research involved
different research methods to accomplish the thesis main goal and
objectives. The research combines literature review and data analysis, case
studies‘ simulation and optimization analysis, survey questionnaire
methodologies in the decision-making Delphi method to obtain the
optimal solutions. This thesis has considered two situations for the case
studies; in the first one, classrooms are not facing any obstruction, while
in the second one, classrooms are facing a neighborhood building in two
cities of Egypt: Cairo and Aswan. The simulation was conducted using
Grasshopper plugin Rhinoceros software to generate the simulation
analysis. Then, a decision-making method: the Delphi method is used to
support design decision-making through three rounds of Delphi at the first
stage, for identifying the weighting for daylighting criteria. Another two
rounds at the second stage for selecting the optimal solutions. The
research outcomes are expected to provide designers and decision-makers
of the General Authority of Educational Building GAEB with a
conceptual framework for designing daylighting in existing public school
extensions to improve classroom visual comfort and quality.