doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2018.9.8.1102
The Assessment of the Environmental and Economic Performances for Improving Existing Educational Building: A Case Study of Bangkok, Thailand
a.phupadtong_boss@hotmail.com1
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Nantamol Limphitakphong2 , ,
Thanapol Tantisattayakul4 ,
Orathai Chavalparit1,*
- 1the Department
- 2the Research Unit of Environmental
- 3the National Metal and Materials
- 4the Faculty of Science and Technology
Abstract
In the present era, buildings are highly contributedto both energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. As aresult, energy conservative measures in building is one of thebest tool to tackle these issues which become the global concerns.The purpose of this study was aimed to make the assessment forthe environmental and economic performances by theimplementation of energy conservative measures for theeducational buildings in Thailand. The clean developmentmechanism (CDM) methodology and net present value (NPV)were used for the study analysis. The results demonstrated thatamong all of the feasible measures, the top three options forenvironmental performances improvement were buildingmanagement, high efficiency of air conditioner replacement andsolar cell installation. For the Improvement of economicperformance, the automatic system control, saving practices, airconditioner maintenance and lighting efficiency improvementwere suggested as the solution tools. The obtained results can beuseful for the decision makers to make the strategies planningfor building sector in the upcoming future.
Keywords
- Educational building
- economic performance
- energy conservative measure
- environmental management
How to Cite
a.phupadtong_boss@hotmail.com, Nantamol Limphitakphong, Premrudee Kanchanapiya, Thanapol Tantisattayakul, and Orathai Chavalparit, "The Assessment of the Environmental and Economic Performances for Improving Existing Educational Building: A Case Study of Bangkok, Thailand," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 208-212, 2018. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2018.9.8.1102
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