Role of Value Engineering in Determining the Economic Impact of climate change on sustainable buildings (Economics of Climate Treatments)

Abstract

Achieving sustainability in buildings is not an architectural trend, but rather a systematic process for designing buildings and urban communities to ensure their compatibility with the surrounding environment and climatic changes, and there are many goals on the basis of which sustainable buildings are evaluated. Improving energy efficiency is one of the most important of these goals that must be achieved, and the building’s envelope has a major role in improving the energy efficiency necessary to provide thermal comfort, which represents the largest share of energy consumption throughout the entire life of the building, which requires adding some environmental treatments, and there are many alternatives to treatments for each element of the outer casing, which differ in terms of characteristics, costs and impact on the design of the building, and because energy calculations are inherent to the building throughout its total life, the best way to calculate Energy consumption is based on life cycle cost calculations to know the effect of this consumption during the entire life of the building.
Life-cycle cost calculations are part of value engineering studies, and hence the field of this research is concerned with applying the value engineering approach in the architectural design stages of sustainable buildings to support design decision-making in order to achieve building sustainability at the lowest cost.