Evaluating Built Area and Occupant Number Impact on Winter Gas ConsumptionA Case in Shiraz Urban Residence Sector

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Zahra Barzegar ¹ (Ph. D., Candidate Department of Art & Architecture, Science And Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Nooshin Karimi ² (Ph. D.,Department of Architecture, Shahr_e_Ray Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mohammad Ali Nemati ³ (Department of Architecture, Beyza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Beyza, Iran.)

Received: 2011-07-02 Accepted : 2012-12-10 Published : 2012-01-01

Keywords: Energy consumption, heating gas consumption, Residential sector, built area, occupant number,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is to found the impact of built area and occupant number on winter gasconsumption in the residential building sector of Iran, Shiraz.Sothe annually and monthly gas consumption data through19 houses were analyzed to achieve the heating energy consumption and operation month.The average operationmonths of gas heating consumption were from first of November up to end of April and the average maximum monthlygas consumption of sample houses was in February. On the other hand, the case study houses have different builtarea from 80 t0 200 m2andoccupant number from 3 to 7 persons.It was concluded that the biggest and busiest housesdid not consume the maximum annual gas consumption and so the smallest and low occupant ones about minimumconsumption. Therefore, the samples heating consumption was not so related to the built area and occupant number.The occupant culture and behavior was more supposed to be related with energy consumption in residential sector ofthe city.