A Study on Green Building Efficiency Assessment in Thailand

Non Phichetkunbodee; Chinnapat Buachart; Nuttapon Chanpichaigosol; Damrongsak Rinchumphu

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Vol.12(6) (2021)

A Study on Green Building Efficiency Assessment in Thailand

Non Phichetkunbodee (Graduate Program in Construction Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND and Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND),
Chinnapat Buachart (Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND),
Nuttapon Chanpichaigosol (Graduate Program in Construction Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND and Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND),
Damrongsak Rinchumphu (Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, THAILAND).

Disciplinary: Civil Engineering & Architectural Science, Green & Sustainable Energy.
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doi: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2021.124

Keywords: Building Energy Code (BEC); Green Building; Overall Thermal Transfer Value (OTTV); Energy calculation process; Energy Assessment; Angle of building.
Abstract

Green Building is one of the ways to reduce energy costs. At present, Thailand has issued a building law that required building design to be energy-efficient by the standard criteria. Therefore, the designers have to assess the building to be constructed to meet the criteria that used the Overall Thermal Transfer Value (OTTV) as an indicator. However, to meet the criteria when designing, the designers have to spend more time compared to the old-fashioned design methods. The government agencies in Thailand, therefore, have developed a program to help calculate the OTTV so that the building efficiency assessments could take less time. The focus of this study was on the program usage on patterns and calculation test of the OTTV, as well as finding opportunities to develop future programs to increase the efficiency of the Green Building design by the standard. The results showed that the limitation of the OTTV calculation in terms of much time-consuming was since the program pattern used was Waterfall. Additionally, the limitation of the analysis of large buildings with high complexity was also a great challenge. For further program development for simplicity of use, the program patterns should be distributed by the Agile System, which would be beneficial for designers.

Paper ID: 12A6S

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Phichetkunbodee, N., Buachart, C., Chanpichaigosol, N., Rinchumphu, D. (2021). A Study on Green Building Efficiency Assessment in Thailand. International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12(6), 12A6S, 1-11. http://doi.org/10.14456/ITJEMAST.2021.124

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