Dwelling factors effect on residential building energy consumption

Most of the developing countries experience rapid urbanization and population growth,malaysia is among these countries as the population and the energy consumption in the country tremendously increased over the last few decades. a major challenge is the rate of energy consumption in the country is tremendous going higher which is a threat as the country was listed 26th out of the 30 top greenhouse emitters in the world. a survey was conducted on the ways occupants’ consumes energy in their residential buildings in relation to dwelling factors in the state of johor malaysia. energy consumption of the residential owners was assessed using drop and pick self-administered questionnaire. the questionnaires were answered by each household heads. air conditioning system,refrigeration system,kitchen appliances,bathroom and laundry appliances,lighting appliances as well as other home appliances was considered in the survey. correlation analysis was used using statistical package for social sciences (spss) to analyze the results. the finding shows a positive relationship between dwelling factors. r ≥ 0.3 and above between dwelling factors and residential building energy consumption. © 2015 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.