Study on the Influence of Solar Contributions on the Total Energy Consumption for an Education Building

Since with the majority of educational buildings the glass area surface is generally bigger than in the rest of civilian buildings, the authors presented in the paper a case study on the influence of this area on the energy performance of an educational building by a comparative analysis of the annual energy consumption, taking into consideration the following parameters: the cardinal orientation of the building, its thermal compliance and its type and the quality of the glazing. For the research carried out in this paper, we had as support for the study the building of the Civil Engineering Faculty in Brasov, a building with a height regime of B (basement) + GF (ground floor) + 7F(floors). (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.