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Overview
The King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) campus will incorporate a distinctive blend of traditional regional architecture with modern styles and amenities.
Understanding the regional microclimate is the foundation of an integrated campus design to create comfortable spaces despite a harsh natural environment.
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Services
Wind Consultations
- Master planning guidance
- Structural loads on solar chimney
- Wind loads on solar panels
- Cladding loads during architectural changes
- Wind comfort around campus
- Wind turbine potential
- Exhaust re-entrainment for entire campus
- Natural ventilation of parking garages
- Smoke for semi-enclosed spaces
- Meteorological cross-correlations
- Wind speed criterion definition
Sustainable and Other Consultations
- Thermal comfort – outdoor covered spaces
- Thermal comfort radiative strategies
- Solar chimney design
- Loading dock ventilation
- Daylighting – atria, garages & courtyards
- Acoustics – courtyards & atria, lab noise control
- Vibration – VAC systems, vibration sensitive labs, floor dynamics
- Façade & roof performance
- Atrium smoke management
- High performance ventilation
- Energy Modeling for LEED submission
- Pedestrian Bridge Shading
- Evaporative cooling for thermal comfort
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Benefits
Informed design: Understanding the site microclimate conditions helps design buildings to work better within their environment.
Innovation: An integrated approach to this project enabled the design team to come up with innovative ideas that aided the sustainable goals of this project.
Increased performance: Opportunities for natural ventilation strategies are increased to reduce the overall campus energy consumption.
Enhanced comfort: Visual, acoustical and thermal comfort are enhanced by taking a multidisciplinary approach and assessing the impact of each on one another.
Safety: Ensuring safe air quality levels in pedestrian areas both indoors and outdoors by providing design guidance with respect to the location of air intakes and windows, and exhaust stack design. -
Printable Project Sheet and Resources
Consulting in the science of buildings, structures and environment