A Study Of The Energy Performance Of Walls Constructed With Rammed Earth, A Comparative Study In The Qalamoun Area In Damascus Countryside

Abstract

Many of the current global hypotheses emphasize the need to move towards construction with rammed soil, because of its role in facing the current energy challenges, and this came by focusing on the ability of the material to maintain a comfortable internal temperature. Based on this, the research depends on the analysis and description of the possible methods of construction with compacted soil, and locally projecting that onto a building in the Qalamoun area in Damascus countryside, in order to work on evaluating energy efficiency with possible implementation possibilities, and comparing the results with the energy efficiency of buildings constructed with reinforced concrete in the area Qalamoun.

The research reviews a building built in several construction methods: The first: traditional, where it is built entirely with rammed earth technology in two cases (wall thickness of 40 cm, wall thickness of 60 cm), the second is traditional, modernized: of stablized and isolated rammed earth walls (SIREWALL), and the third: it is from Concrete (double block walls with middle air space). In order to compare their performance, the thermal behavior of each of them was simulated using the thermodynamic simulation program (Design Builder).