Comparison of the Traditional and Contemporary Construction Techniques in Terms of Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency-in North Cyprus Case

According to the importance of the occupants‟ satisfaction with indoor quality, providing thermal comfort is one of the main headlines of the architecture‟s duties. While we have faced with technology improvement, it is conceived that the residents‟ relative satisfaction of thermal comfort in the past had been dramatically more than nowadays. In other hand, nowadays one of the main global issues is energy crisis which forces all industries to fallow some politics in order to reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency. Thus providing thermal through air conditioning system seems unacceptable and unjustifiable. In this study, selected traditional and contemporary construction systems compared in terms of thermal comfort and energy efficiency. Traditional construction techniques selected from Ottoman and British periods and contemporary construction techniques were evaluated in the conditions during the indoor environment not air conditioned and continuously air conditioned cases. Keywords: Thermal comfort, Energy efficiency, Building modeling, TAS, PMV, thermal load, thermal behavior.