Influence of shading on energy consumption of mountainous residential buildings

Taking a six-storey residential building in Chongqing as an example, investigates the shading effects on the energy consumption from three aspects of building itself, neighboring buildings and nearby plant with DesignBuilder software, and conducts integrated modeling and analysis. The results show that with the integrated three kinds of shielding measures, solar heat gain is decreased by about 50%. The energy consumption is decreased by 18% for the west with poor thermal and humid environment, and by less than 10% for other orientations.