ABSTRACT
Demand for improvements in quality of life, as well as for various benefits necessitates the provision of a consumer-centred construction environment, even within the building sector. To satisfy consumer demands related to indoor and outdoor environments, a construction environment system should accommodate both natural and artificial controls. To accomplish this end, an optimal building structure should be built in composite harmony with construction plans, the latter including the facility system plan, the spatial plan and the structural plan. Interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions arising from energy demand within building
structures has gradually been increasing, this being a component of optimal building structure; however, there are technical limitations to the extent to which energy consumption can be reduced simply by maximizing the efficiency of fossil energy in conventional use. One of the approaches to addressing this problem is to reduce fossil fuel consumption using new renewable energy resources [1]. To fundamentally increase the efficiency of energy consumption, there is thus an urgent need to develop new technologies that can utilize these eco-friendly renewable energy resources [2].
