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Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia

This paper discusses planning guidelines of neighborhood residential areas in consideration of wind flow in Malaysia. It aims to reduce the energy consumption particularly from the use of air-conditioners. Wind flow at the neighborhood level has a large potential to promote natural ventilation in ea...

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Main Authors: Kubota, Tetsu, Ahmad, Supian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
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NA Architecture
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1737/1/No.2%2C_Tetsu_Kubota.pdf
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spelling my.utm.17372012-06-06T03:06:29Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1737/ Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia Kubota, Tetsu Ahmad, Supian NA Architecture This paper discusses planning guidelines of neighborhood residential areas in consideration of wind flow in Malaysia. It aims to reduce the energy consumption particularly from the use of air-conditioners. Wind flow at the neighborhood level has a large potential to promote natural ventilation in each dwelling unit. This paper reports results of the wind environmental evaluation of case study areas under respective climatic conditions in major towns of Malaysia. The results showed that the calculated mean wind velocities in most terraced houses cases did not meet required criterion under respective climatic conditions in the east coast towns and inland town of Peninsular Malaysia. This was mainly due to the weak wind conditions in these towns. It was considered that the location of towns, i.e. distance from the coastal line, had significant influence on such weak wind conditions. This paper finally suggested that the high-rise housing could be one of the effective means to utilize higher wind at the elevated floor level under weak wind conditions in urban Malaysia. 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1737/1/No.2%2C_Tetsu_Kubota.pdf Kubota, Tetsu and Ahmad, Supian (2006) Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 5 (1). pp. 199-206. ISSN ISSN 1346-7581
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Kubota, Tetsu
Ahmad, Supian
Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
description This paper discusses planning guidelines of neighborhood residential areas in consideration of wind flow in Malaysia. It aims to reduce the energy consumption particularly from the use of air-conditioners. Wind flow at the neighborhood level has a large potential to promote natural ventilation in each dwelling unit. This paper reports results of the wind environmental evaluation of case study areas under respective climatic conditions in major towns of Malaysia. The results showed that the calculated mean wind velocities in most terraced houses cases did not meet required criterion under respective climatic conditions in the east coast towns and inland town of Peninsular Malaysia. This was mainly due to the weak wind conditions in these towns. It was considered that the location of towns, i.e. distance from the coastal line, had significant influence on such weak wind conditions. This paper finally suggested that the high-rise housing could be one of the effective means to utilize higher wind at the elevated floor level under weak wind conditions in urban Malaysia.
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author Kubota, Tetsu
Ahmad, Supian
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Ahmad, Supian
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title Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
title_short Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
title_full Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
title_fullStr Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of Malaysia
title_sort wind environmental evaluation of neighborhood areas in major towns of malaysia
publishDate 2006
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1737/1/No.2%2C_Tetsu_Kubota.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1737/
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