Optimization Algorithms for Energy Building Applications

The creation of the structured environment affects the environment in all three phases of the construction and the demolition of buildings. The appropriate design of buildings requires full identification of the interaction between the environment and the structured environment. Energy efficiency is a mandatory requirement and integral part of green and sustainable buildings. Energy efficient design optimization is both a design philosophy and a practical technique which has been proposed and used by architects and other professionals for several decades, especially in recent years. Bioclimatic construction has been an important tool for improving the construction of buildings in the past few decades. Energy-saving options in buildings include the use of appropriate materials, exposures and the use of alternative power generation systems. In the present work, the methods and tools used for building design optimization are displayed in an effort to explore the reasoning behind their selection, to present their abilities and performance issues, and to identify the key characteristics of their future versions. In this essay, several algorithms are provided for optimizing problems which are proposed for building construction. Depending on whether limitations are given and on the general form of the optimization problem, one could choose the optimization algorithm which suits each case.