COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE ENVELOPE DESIGN ELEMENTS OF BUILDINGS WITH SIMPLE AND COMPLEX FORMS OF STRUCTURE

Abstract

The diverse geometric forms of the external envelope areas of the buildings are distinguished by their distinctive geometric characteristics which should be taken into account when providing quantitative assessments of the building materials at the stages of design and construction. Normally, the use of software products to compute and determine the area of the envelope design elements reduces and facilitates the otherwise huge amount of work the relevant experts will do in supervising the building’s energy efficiency consistency. The results hereto obtained prove conclusively that the applied software products are capable of meeting the technical requirements for enhanced energy performance of the buildings, both at the concept design stage and the subsequent stages of reconstruction, renovation, repair, etc.