Track: Energy

Abstract

This study examines the issues as regards the development of the Built Environment and discusses the thermal performance of Trombe  Wall with respect to heating and cooling load profile. The scope of this research is limited to Trombe Wall designs are suitable for a common building structure as this facilitates the comparison and reduce the time taken. Therefore, a good solar building performance will provide good selection material by using Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) software and go through the process of selecting a candidate material (or a range of materials), hence only a few materials able to pass the requirements. The result shows that the best materials for Trombe that meets the requirements of the CES software are found on Titanium alloys, Stone, Concrete, Silica glass, Soda-lime glass, Brick, Silicon, and Borosilicate glass. The research concludes that solar energy produces different energy performances which resulted from different building techniques that affected the environment in various ways.