Energy efficient building for Nepalese market

Abstract

This thesis aims to give an idea on how we can build an energy efficient buildings on different climatic zones with a use of passive house design strategy saving significant amount of energy. SIMIEN software was used to analyze the energy use of common and modified house along with the thermal comfort of the residential building in Kathmandu. During simulation changes in features like addition of varying thickness of insulation, shading, and other passive house strategies were made. While evaluating the result by simulation, modified house incorporated with selected passive house strategies performed more better than a base house both in terms of energy use and thermal comfort. If we compare the result of CO₂ emission, modified house showed very positive result reducing almost by 50% than common building. Overall, study shows that great improvement can be on both energy use and indoor thermal comfort in Nepalese house with use of passive design techniques