الفهرس 
Envelope Design from an Environmental PerspectiveOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Recently, there has been an increasing demand in the field of sports facilities, especially in the Middle East region, (preparing to hold the world soccer cup in 2022 in Qatar and holding the world handball cup in 2021 in Egypt). As a result, more attention is drawn toward achieving human indoor thermal comfort in such facilities located in hot areas. The vision was not only to create a healthy, comfortable indoor environment for occupants but also to enhance the energy performance of these types of sports building typologies.
The thesis aims to enhance indoor human thermal comfort in covered sports halls and achieve energy conservation. The findings came from analyzing a covered sports hall case study as a base case situation and applying the envelope modifications using computational optimization analysis to investigate the optimum envelope design scenario. The envelope scenario is a combination of envelope modification variables (techniques and materials).
In order to achieve the thesis goal, a sequential methodology consisting of several steps was applied. The first step is collecting data about the covered sports hall envelope, techniques, and materials used for enhancing indoor human thermal comfort. The second step is analyzing the collected data to get information about envelope design considerations. The third step is finding the best envelope design scenario and applying it to the case study model. This will be achieved using the DesignBuilder tool for simulation and optimization analysis to identify the optimal envelope design scenario for achieving both indoor human thermal comfort and energy conservation.
Determining the optimum proposed scenario for the enhancement of the Covered Sports Halls envelope performance is the final step for achieving the thesis goal, which consequently leads to improving indoor human thermal comfort and energy conservation.