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Buildings have a significant impact on energy use and the
environment. However, school buildings differ from other types of buildings
because they are the places where children are educated and have the
opportunity to learn how to become environmentally-aware citizens. This paper
is a part of an ongoing research project Al-Maqdisi Funded by the French
government in cooperation between Building engineering department at NNU and
GRECAU laboratory at ENSAP in France. Zero energy and energy efficiency concepts
are very important in school buildings, as they are associated with comfort and
air quality conditions in the interior spaces and energy cost of these
buildings are associated with their main operational cost. There is an
increasing awareness throughout donors for promotion of sustainable solutions
in Palestinian school buildings involving energy efficient technologies and
measures. The aim of this paper is to assess the energy and comfort
performance, based on subjective and objective approaches, of school buildings
in two different climatic zones of Palestine. It also demonstrates, through
simulation studies, the potential for achieving Near Zero Energy school
buildings in each region and proposed its appropriate strategies.
Keywords; school design, ZEB strategies, climate zones, Palestine.