Choice of Thermal Protection of an Office Building of the Transport Infrastructure by Economic Reasons

Abstract

Administration and office buildings make an important part of the facilities and utilities of airports, river and marine ports, road terminals. Lowering the expenses for their construction and operation is related to a right choice of the building heat protection despite of other factors. Cumulated Discount Expenses (CDE) have been chosen to provide economic estimation of the building heating. The CDE values have been taken for a 10-year limit. The CDE dependence on some factors has been investigated, and their range has been considerably enlarged by comparison with the traditional one. I has been shown, that it is not enough to take into account the capital investments only for the building thermal protection and the heating system operation. The results of the investigation permitted to determine combinations of the heated building geometrical parameters and the cost characteristics of several components of capital and operation expenses, which are reasonable for different types of thermal protection of an office building.