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Abstract
The energy consumption has increased significantly over the past decade in the Gulf region, as a result of the diversification plans that aim to reduce on oil-based income. High-rise building played an essential role in these plans to attract new economies based on global place-making and international tourism. However, this rapid development, along with the availability of cheap energy for heating and cooling loads, created many ill-conceived buildings which neither accord with local climate and context nor comply the fundamental energy efficiency rules or the environmental considerations for the region. Therefore, this research aimed to determine design parameters through their effectiveness on the reduction of energy consumption that help a high-rise building to be more energy efficient. For this purpose, the research focused an adopting an inductive methodology of parameters employed in the building’s codes and regulation in the Gulf region countries and design parameters applied in high-performance high-rise building in terms of environmental passive design strategies, through a specific framework to be applied to efficiency high-rise building in the Gulf region. This will be carried out through a matrix that analyzed interrelationship between the key and common design parameters of both building’s codes and regulation of the Gulf region countries and high-performance high-rise building, with the aim of complying a comprehensive list of selected parameters. This inductive methodology will be validated through a comparative study of relevant examples in the Gulf region. As, the results confirmed the importance of the following design parameters considering energy efficiency: the variation of glazing ratio according to the orientation are effective design parameters to control heat gain and reduce cooling demand, shading parameters such as placing vertical sky-gardens or recessed balconies or service core acted as a thermal buffer zone on the hot sides of the building, and the application of double façade skin shading devices on the outer layer and glazing on the inner layer within cavity is a common design parameter among sustainable cases. Based on this, a set of guidelines for high-performance high-rise building is provided in general for Gulf region. This research concluded that the integration of different design parameters has a significant impact on the energy performance of high-rise building in order to achieve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Further research is needed to identify other integrated design parameters that could strengthen their effectiveness on the energy performance of high-rise building such as, the integration of structure efficiency to reduce embodied energy, the integration of greenery systems to reduce CO2 emissions, and the integration of renewable energy to produce energy instead of consume energy.