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2018 Publications
International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology

Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2018, pp. 1980–1990,

EXTERNAL WALL PERFORMANCE IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN HOT
CLIMATE COUNTRIES

Ibrahim Varouqa, Taiseer Rawashdeh, Shehdeh Ghannam

It was clearly observed that the temperature in summer period raised every year due to global

warming and climate change, this created new problem to keep comfort temperature inside the
residential buildings, which required additional energy to use for mechanical air-conditions
and ventilations. External walls in the residential buildings playing major roll to transfer
temperature from outside to inside buildings throw building external wall materials. This paper
provides overview of insulation materials and used in the external walls to reduce heat flux
throw external walls in the summer and loss heat as well in the winter. In the commercial
markets there are many of insulation materials where you can confuse to choose the
appropriate material for your region and efficiency of materials used in the construction. In
this paper we will review construction types of external walls in Jordan and check U-Value,
study the climate changes for last five years in Jordan and looking for statistics of energy has
been spent , also we will illustrate for basic requirements of evaluation of performance
insulation materials, technical requirement and compare it with new proposals. This paper is
searching only in the residential sector where the area and size of the buildings are limited.
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