Achieving Building Comfort by Natural Means

Introduction.- Sustainable Schools: Their Passive Systems to Provide Comfort With Natural Means as an Educational Example for Pupils and Their Parents.- Climate- Sensitive Architecture: Is Natural Comfort Possible?.- The Role of Shading, Natural Ventilation, Daylighting, and Comfort in Enhancing Indoor Environmental Quality and Liveability in the Age of Covid-19.- Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings in a Warm, Humid Urban Climate.- Efficiency and Control in the Domestic Environment: A Case Study.- Providing Thermal Comfort for Building Inhabitants Through Natural Cooling and Ventilation Systems: Wind Towers.- Comfort: Climate Potential of Ventilative Cooling.- Enhancing the Microclimate Towards Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Isles of the Mediterranean Region.- Diachronic Analysis of Daylight Design and Management Techniques in the Mediterranean Region.- Passive Solar Design: The Influence of Building Geometry and Orientation on Solar Performance of Mosque in the Tropics.- Comfort and Wellbeing in Buildings: The Smart Behaviour of End Users.- Adoptable and Sustainability for Visual and Perceptive Comfort: Neuroscience and Architecture.- Solar Shading and Building Thermal Comfort: Design Parameters of External Shading Device in Humid-Moderate Climates.- Living Bricks Can Generate Energy in the Home and Wean Humanity Off Fossil Fuels.- Keeping Cool Under the Hot Arewa Sun: Natural Cooling Systems in Traditional Hausa Buildings in Nigeria.- Is Still - "Ornament" - a "Crime"?.- Design Elements of Building Comfort in Arid Zone of Arabian Countries - The Significance Role of Orientation and Courtyard.- High Comfort - Low Impact: Integration of Thermal Mass in Pursuit of Designing Sustainable Buildings.- Visual Comfort in UAE Heritage Buildings Converted Into Museums.

Professor Ali Sayigh, He is a UK Citizen, Graduated from London University, & Imperial College, BSC.AWP, DIC, PhD, in 1966. He is Fellow of the Institute of Energy, and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, Chartered Engineer, Chairman of Iraq Energy Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prof Sayigh taught in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Reading University and University of Hertfordshire From 1966 - 2004. He was Head of Energy Department at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and Expert in renewable energy at AOPEC, Kuwait from 1981-1985.

He started working in solar energy in September 1969. In 1972, he established with some colleagues in Saudi Arabia "The Journal of Engineering Sciences" in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 1984 he established International Journal for Solar and Wind Technology, as an Editor-in-Chief. This has changed its name in 1990 to Journal of Renewable Energy. He is editor of several International journal published in Morocco, Iran, Bangladesh, Nigeria and India. He established WREN and the World Renewable Energy Congress in 1990. Member of various societies related to climate change and renewable energy. He is Chairman of Iraq Energy Institute since 2010.

He was consultants to many national and international organizations, among them, the British Council, ISESCO, UNESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, UNIDO and UN. He run conferences and Seminars in 54 different countries, published more than 600 papers. He edited, written and associated in more than 100 books. He supervised more than 82 MSc. and 36 PhD students. He is editor-in- chief of the yearly Renewable Energy Magazine, 2000-2016. He is the founder of WREN and Renewable Energy Journal published by Elsevier & was the Editor-in-chief for 30 years from 1984 - 2014.