Simulation as a tool to develop guidelines for the design of school schemes for four climatic regions of Turkiye

This paper describes the use of transient building performance simulation in order to develop design guidelines for educational buildings in Turkiye. The premise of the work is that design decisions taken during early stages of the building process have a large impact on the performance of the resulting building and hence need solid underpinning. Yet straightforward application of building performance in these early stages has proven to be difficult. Hence  this paper applies sensitivity analysis to the outcomes of simulations carried out with the ESP-r simulation program in order to identify the most relevant parameters in school design. This allows building designers to make informed decisions, without having to revert to modelling and simulation. The research described in this paper is part of an ongoing project of preparing a design guideline for Turkish building designers who intend to design with climate.