3 Investigation of Potential Energy Savings in Retrofitting a Residential Building at Riyadh's Weather Conditions (LV-17-C053)

Mohamad Alrished, Center for Complex Engineering Systems at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Abdullah Alabdulkarem, Ph.D., King Saud University
Recent official statistics have shown that Saudi Arabia electricity consumption growth rate at 7%. Buildings primary energy consumption and electricity consumption are 23% and 80%, respectively. This trend of high energy consumption is expected to rise in the upcoming few years. According to governmental statistics, 70% of the buildings in Saudi are not insulated. Furthermore, most of the air-conditioners in existing buildings were installed before enforcing minimum performance standards on air-conditioners. In this paper, an uninsulated existing residential building model was developed and validated against utility data.

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