Thermal performance and adherence of local materials to the Moroccan Building Code requirements

Abstract

The building must be characterized by a good architectural design, adequate construction materials and passive systems especially the ones adapted to local climate. There are many examples of systems and installations that stand as solutions, from passive techniques and local materials to secure ultimate indoor conditions as it is contended by with the Moroccan building code requirements, and thus tuning the energy use wisely. Therefore, dynamic simulation study was conducted to examine the annual thermal loads for heating and cooling for configurations of the studied building within the set points of NM ISO 7730 was conducted, this study carried out through a comparison of the established thermal loads prescribed by RTCM (Moroccan building code). Results shows a clear reduction of thermal loads performed by the building configurations which combines the three studied passive techniques. These passive components perform up to 63% reduction of the annual thermal load and shows a neat adherence to the performance-based requirements of RTCM.