Amman- 25 April, 2014
The School of Architecture and Built Environment at GJU/ Daret Othman Bdeir organized a workshop about Energy Efficient Building Envelope, on Thursday, 25 April,2014.
The workshop was a student version of a training course for GJU students, using the material developed by Dr. Ismael Al-Hinti from GJU and Arch. Florentine Visser from MED-ENEC with support from the EU through the MED-ENEC program.
This material was prepared with a focus on the local challenges, practices, construction materials, and thermal insulation codes.
The workshop discussed how the energy consumption of a building is influenced by how it is built, its structure and its envelope. It introduced the building envelope parameters that help improve the energy performance of a building.
Furthermore, the workshop covered several topics such as Concept of energy efficient buildings, the physics of energy flow in buildings, heat transfer by conduction and the role of thermal insulation, ventilation and infiltration effects, solar heat gain and passive design aspects and local building envelope constructions and thermal insulation codes in Jordan.
It is worth mentioning that the workshop was organized and advertised for the students by Arch. Farah AlAtrash.
At the end of the workshop students received certificates for attending and a one-year student membership of the JGBC.