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Abstract Daylighting is considered one of the main elements of space identification and, consequently, it is a major component of space quality. It can play a significant role in resource conservation, occupants‘ level of productivity, health, and comfort. In school buildings, the absence of adequate indoor comfort levels can greatly influence students’ learning ability. During the last decades, Egypt faced some problems in the increase of annual school enrollment, high classroom density, and inadequate lands manifested in existing school extensions. All these problems affected classrooms daylighting performance. This research main goal is to establish a decision-making process modeling for enhancing daylighting performance in existing public school extensions. Conducting this research involved different research methods to accomplish the thesis main goal and objectives. The research combines literature review and data analysis, case studies‘ simulation and optimization analysis, survey questionnaire methodologies in the decision-making Delphi method to obtain the optimal solutions. This thesis has considered two situations for the case studies; in the first one, classrooms are not facing any obstruction, while in the second one, classrooms are facing a neighborhood building in two cities of Egypt: Cairo and Aswan. The simulation was conducted using Grasshopper plugin Rhinoceros software to generate the simulation analysis. Then, a decision-making method: the Delphi method is used to support design decision-making through three rounds of Delphi at the first stage, for identifying the weighting for daylighting criteria. Another two rounds at the second stage for selecting the optimal solutions. The research outcomes are expected to provide designers and decision-makers of the General Authority of Educational Building GAEB with a conceptual framework for designing daylighting in existing public school extensions to improve classroom visual comfort and quality. |