Industrialisation causes migration from rural to urban areas. This situation increases the consumption of raw materials and energy in building stocks, CO2, greenhouse gases and global warming. The solution is the implementation of sustainable and energy-efficient design strategies. Ensuring physical environmental comfort conditions in buildings - such as thermal, visual, acoustic, and indoor air quality -requires high energy usage. This study assesses the potential for improving the south façade of the Gebze Technical University (GTU) Rectorate Administrative Building in a temperate-humid climate through double-skin façade system. The study aims to evaluate the performance of the glass type and insulating gases used between the glass layers in terms of heating and cooling energy consumption. Rhinoceros/Grasshopper and Honeybee programs were used for the analysis. As a result of the improvements, the system reduced energy consumption for heating and cooling. Low-E glass and argon gas used in the improvement system were key factors.
Su et al. (Mon,) studied this question.