University Lecture Halls Research Articles

Enhancing Energy Supply Reliability for University Lecture Halls Using Photovoltaic-Battery Microgrids: A South African Case Study

Institutions of higher learning in South Africa are grappling with occasional power outages in lecture halls, leading to disruptions in academic activities and occasional loss of lecture hours. Therefore, this study presents a comprehensive evaluation of a grid-connected solar PV/Li-ion battery microgrid (μG) system aimed at maintaining a constant power supply to selected lecture halls at a university in the Western Cape, South Africa. The microgrid design, modelling, and simulations, conducted in the MATLAB/Simulink environment, include the solar PV, Li-ion battery, energy consumption of the lecture halls (load profile), boost converter, bidirectional converter, and grid. Using the detailed design, modelling, and simulation, the study evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of integrating μGs, focusing on enhancing energy reliability, reducing operational costs, and mitigating CO2 emissions. The results indicate that integrating the microgrid resulted in a significant 51% reduction in energy cost and a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 530 kgCO2e per hour. In Cases 2 and 4, where the battery supplied power, the annual battery degradation costs are 6.08% and 14.9% of the initial cost, respectively. The μG ensures an uninterrupted power supply and improves the overall reliability of the university’s energy infrastructure. It promotes environmental sustainability goals of zero emissions and maintains continuous academic activities during grid outages. Furthermore, it fosters a conducive learning environment, supports innovation and creativity in sustainable energy technologies, and sets a standard for other higher education institutions to integrate renewable energy-powered μGs.

Robust 3D localization of anomalies in reverberation time measurements using the sound field scanning method

Reverberation time measurements form the basis for room acoustic optimizations of existing building structures. During the verification of the achieved room acoustic improvements, anomalies may appear in the reverberation time signal which may be hard to spatially localize, especially in spaces with demanding acoustic requirements such as large, open workspaces, or concert halls. This contribution focuses on the application of the Sound Field Scanning technology to the fast spatial localization of room reflections. In this process, an omnidirectional sound source is positioned at an observation point in the room and periodically excited with band-limited pulses. At the same observation point, an acoustic camera system consisting of a rotating linear microphone array is oriented towards the preferred spatial direction. The emitted pulses and associated room reflections are captured on the measurement surface of the rotating microphone array. Acoustic images with high depth resolution are generated in parallel planes to the measurement surface. In complex situations, the task of spatially localizing anomalies in the reverberation time signal can be reduced to a few measurements from different viewing angles, thus, significantly accelerating the problem-solving process with high confidence. The method is exemplarily described through the room acoustic analysis of a University Lecture Hall.

Improving Students' Employability in Ho Chi Minh City Today

Our country's economy is on the rise, besides the advantages, there are also many difficulties and negatives that arise, such as unemployment among students after graduating. Increasing in the current market mechanism. The more the country develops, in addition to modern technology serving production and business, one of the factors determining the country's development is the labor force, in today's market economy the workforce Workers are students trained in universities, colleges..., the country's young force is very dynamic and capable at work. Therefore, students are a very important human resource that we need to know how to use in the most reasonable and effective way. But the current unemployment situation of students after graduating has greatly affected the economic and social development of the country. So the question for managers and the country is what causes that situation? Is it because the training process at universities still lacks many aspects? or because the State's policies are not reasonable in using labor. Employment after graduation is always a pressing issue not only for students themselves but also for families, schools and society. Having a job that matches the field of training is always the dream of not only students graduating from school but even for those still sitting in university lecture halls. Starting from the importance of employment for students after graduation, the topic "Improving the ability of students to find jobs in Ho Chi Minh City today" researches, surveys and evaluates. Reality, employability of students after graduation and research on factors affecting students' job search results. With that goal, the author uses scientific research methods, typically data investigation methods, to propose solutions to practical problems related to student employment. After graduation and advise on some solutions. With the hope that those solutions will be applied in practice to improve the employability of Ho Chi Minh City students after graduation in the current period.

The Italian standard on classroom acoustics UNI 11532-2:2020 explained through case studies

The UNI 11532-2:2020 is the Italian standard for acoustic environments in schools, comprised of classrooms and ancillary locals like libraries, gyms and canteens. Two years after its release, this talk is aimed to present some early results based on case studies, both on design simulations and in situ measurements. Indeed, on the one hand, the UNI 11532-2:2020 takes care of active classrooms asking consultants to consider the acoustic absorption of occupancy to reach the target range of reverberation time in a wide frequency range. It was shown how mixing material typologies becomes crucial to reach these targets. On the other hand, adequate intelligibility is needed in unoccupied conditions too. It showed how the requirements could be reached in small and large environments. A selection of case studies—a primary classroom, a library, and a university lecture hall—aims to show some design solutions to solve issues needed by the UNI 11532-2:2020.

Designing and constructing universities with lecture hall and relevant regulations

Meyer et al. stated that personal qualities and abilities continually shift, and they exist not within the individual but in the intersection between the individual and their environment, in a vast, complex, ever-changing dynamic balance. The current study aims to investigate current regulations in the country related to constructing universities and also refer to related studies and framework, by using qualitative analysis, synthesis and inductive methods. The study results suggest that physical structures of universities and environment affecting much on learning spirit of learners. And finally authors suggest that Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing flexible instructional environments and proactively integrating supports that address learner variability and we need to follow Vietnamese standards - TCVN 3981:1985 on design of university lecture halls.

Effectiveness of acoustic treatments and PA redesign by means of student activity and speech levels

The assessment of the acoustic quality of learning spaces traditionally concerns rooms’ objective parameters and not the dynamical behavior of students during lectures. In the present work, student activity and speech levels measured in two historical university lecture halls are used to assess the quality of the acoustic environment before and after renovation works. Restoration includes both acoustic treatments and public address (PA) redesign based on line array system. Clustering techniques, Gaussian Mixture Model and K-means, were used to measure the student activity and the speech levels after long-term monitoring of active classrooms.Outcomes show how acoustic treatments, and especially the PA redesign through line arrays, keep the environment quieter. Consequently, the signal-to-noise ratio – assumed in highly occupied large halls as the difference between the speech level and the student activity – increases even considering the variation of occupancy. This is probably due to the uniform coverage of PA within the audience area.Spectral matching confirms the reliability of both unsupervised methods showing two different speech shapes: the anechoic teachers’ speech, and the students’ speech-in-noise. Nevertheless, K-means clustering seems to be more robust to changes in levels than Gaussian Mixture Model.

Unsettling feelings in the classroom: scaffolding pedagogies of discomfort as part of decolonising human geography in higher education

ABSTRACT This paper addresses the tension between the need to create spaces for unsettling feelings as part of a decolonisation of the curriculum in Higher Education, and the need to create a sense of safety in the classroom. Decolonising the curriculum, here, means exploring how histories of coloniality structure educational institutions, established canons, and socio-natural relations, and cultivating collective practices that move beyond oppressive patternings. As part of this process, as we find ourselves imbricated in the struggles of others and as our emotional grip on the world is unsettled, we – students and teachers alike – may find ourselves experiencing discomfort. This raises an important question, for it is clearly part of the responsibility of an educator to create spaces that feel “safe” for students, and do not induce or trigger trauma. Drawing on experiences in the university classroom and lecture halls, this paper develops the concept of “scaffolding” as the basis for an ethos for embracing discomfort pedagogically. The affordances of physical theatre, film, and visual culture are considered alongside particular tactics as ways to foster the transformation of “settled” fabrics of feeling in care-full ways.

'n Ou skoolsaal of teater - die opvoerruimtes van die Cape Flats Players en die Eoan-groep

Die teaternavorser Temple Hauptfleisch spreek in 1983 kommer uit oor die agteruitgang van plaaslike amateurteater. Hy identifiseer verskeie faktore om dit te stimuleer, onder meer die beskikbaarheid van 'n saal of 'n teater, verkieslik laasgenoemde, "omdat vir vandag se geso-fistikeerde gehore die ou skoolsaal nie meer goed genoeg is nie". Hierdie artikel ondersoek na aanleiding van hierdie stelling die lotgevalle van die Cape Flats Players en die Eoan-groep, beide Kaapse amateurgeselskappe tydens die hoogbloei van apartheid. Die beskikbaarheid van teatergeriewe en veral die toepassing van apartheidswetgewing met verwysing na die Wet op die Aanwysing van Aparte Geriewe en die Groepsgebiedewet, word van nader beskou. Die ondersoek vind plaas aan die hand van Michel Foucault, David Harvey en Henri Lefebvre se insigte oor die aard van plek en ruimte. Hier is bevind dat die Cape Flats Players nie toegang tot teaters gehad het nie; dat die toegang van gehore beperk was; dat hulle nie-tradisionele ruimtes moes gebruik; dat hulle geen beheer oor die aard en demografie van hulle gehore gehad het nie en dat hulle nuwe netwerke van verbandhoudende individue en groepe gevestig het. Ten opsigte van die Eoan-groep is bevind dat die apartheidswetgewing tot gevolg gehad het dat hul kulturele netwerk vernietig is. Ná die oprigting van hul eie teater, het hul onmiddellike gemeenskap die fasiliteit geboikot, hoofsaaklik vanweë die apartheidsregering se geldelike steun aan die groep. Die kontrasterende ervaring van die Cape Flats Players wat in 1991 in die voorheen "slegs blankes" Nico Malan-teater opgetree het, word bespreek. Alhoewel daar kritiek teen hul optrede was, het dit ook die einde van die boikot van die teaterkompleks ingelui. In die algemeen is bevind dat opvoerruimtes verbande oproep met ander ruimtes, geskiedenisse en simbole. Die keuse tussen "'n ou skoolsaal" en "'n teater" mag eenvoudig klink, maar verdoesel verwikkelde vrae oor ruimtes, toegang en uitsluiting.

Moving beyond the transmission of knowledge in the lecture hall: a self study

In this paper, a teacher educator discusses her experience of professional learning through self-study. The author found the transition between being a classroom teacher and teacher educator challenging, as has been noted in recent literature. Thus, she decided to embark on a self-study, which was focused on the enhancement of her teaching so that she was not merely transmitting knowledge to her students about the teaching of literacy. Data was gathered using a range of qualitative methods including reflective journals, peer observations, and student focus groups. Themes emerged from the data relating to the importance of activating prior knowledge in learning, the necessity of creating dynamic lecturing spaces and the need to share learning while learning in a university lecture hall. As a self-study, this paper is highly contextual but is intended to provide valuable insights into teaching and learning in higher education.

A Trial Acoustic Improvement in a Lecture Hall with MPP Sound Absorbers and FDTD Acoustic Simulations

Sound absorbing micro-perforated panels (MPPs) are being increasingly used because of their high quality in terms of hygiene, sustainability and durability. The present work investigates the feasibility and the performance of MPPs when used as an acoustic treatment in lecture rooms. With this purpose, three different micro-perforated steel specimens were first designed following existing predictive models and then physically manufactured through 3D additive metal printing. The specimens’ acoustic behavior was analyzed with experimental measurements in single-layer and double-layer configurations. Then, the investigation was focused on the application of double-layer MPPs to the ceiling of an existing university lecture hall to enhance speech intelligibility. Numerical simulations were carried out using a full-spectrum wave-based method: a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) code was chosen to better handle time-dependent signals as the verbal communication. The present work proposes a workflow to explore the suitability of a specific material to speech requirements. The measured specific impedance complex values allowed to derive the input data referred to MPPs in FDTD simulations. The outcomes of the process show the influence of the acoustic treatment in terms of reverberation time (T30) and sound clarity (C50). A systematic comparison with a standard geometrical acoustic (GA) technique is reported as well.

Один день из истории Большой физической аудитории: доклад Н. И. Вавилова 4 июня 1920 года

The Great Physical Auditorium of Saratov University is one of the best university lecture halls in Russia, it has a wonderful interior, large capacity and good acoustics. It also has a wonderful history. One outstanding event that took place in the Great Physical Auditorium 100 years ago is described in the article. On June 4, 1920, Nikolai I. Vavilov, professor of the agronomic faculty of Saratov University, made a presentation on «The law of homologous series in variation” to the participants of the III All-Russian Breeding Congress. The law determines the fundamental features of the evolution of plants and living organisms from a genetic standpoint. It influenced the subsequent development of biology, genetics, plant growing, breeding, biophysics and agrophysics on a global scale. The article describes the versatile activities of Nikolai I. Vavilov in 1918–1921 on the post of professor at Saratov University as a teacher, organizer of student practices and expeditions, as a deep scientist and analyst. His report was met with great enthusiasm by the participants of the Breeding congress. The law of homologous series in variation may be compared with the periodic law by Dmitry I. Mendeleev. The article was written by using the materials of the Breeding Congress, the Vavilov’s collection of the Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore, the memoirs by the participants of the Congress, scientific publications reflecting the modern significance of the law by Nikolai I. Vavilov. More than 50 congress participants, captured in the historical photograph of June 4, 1920, are named. The article notes interesting parallels between the III All-Union Congress of Breeding in 1920 and the VI Congress of the Russian Association of Physicists in 1928, which was also held within the walls of the Great Physical Auditorium. Sergei I. Vavilov was secretary of the Physical congress. The outstanding role of the brothers Nikolai I. and Sergei I. Vavilovs by organization of scientific activity in Russia is emphasized. The topic of modern scientific conferences held at the Great Physical Auditorium is named. It is concluded that the Great Physical Auditorium of Saratov University has acquired the significance of one of the important communication scientific centers of Russia and the world.

ANTHROPOMETRIC EVALUATION OF A UNIVERSITY LECTURE HALL’S SEAT

Ergonomics deals with the methods and processes of designing workplaces so that they fit the individuals that make use of them. This paper focuses on the anthropometric evaluation of the lecture hall’s seat of a University. Two anthropometric dimensions, the popliteal height (PH) and the buttock-popliteal length (BP) of 188 undergraduate students using the University lecture hall were taken. The lecture hall’s seat has height of 465mm and depth of 405mm. It was found that 61% of the student population used for the study was in the fit range of the seat height. Examining the seat depth and buttock to popliteal length, it was observed that 53.7% of the students may be comfortable using the present seat depth design of 405mm dimension, while over 46% of the students’ population used for the study might not be able to utilize the backrest of the seat. From this study, it was found that the seat depth of the University lecture hall’s seats were not adequate and a model should be developed to determine the most appropriate seat depth required for the University’s lecture hall’s seats.

BIM reconstruction from 3D point clouds: A semantic registration approach based on multimodal optimization and architectural design knowledge

Reconstructing semantically rich building information model (BIM) from 2D images or 3D point clouds represents a research realm that is gaining increasing popularity in architecture, engineering, and construction. Researchers have found that architectural design knowledge, such as symmetry, planarity, parallelism, and orthogonality, can be utilized to improve the effectiveness of such BIM reconstruction. Following this line of enquiry, this paper aims to develop a novel semantic registration approach for complicated scenes with repetitive, irregular-shaped objects. The approach first formulates the architectural repetition as the multimodality in mathematics. Thus, the reconstruction of repetitive objects becomes a multimodal optimization (MMO) problem of registering BIM components which have accurate geometries and rich semantics. Then, the topological information about repetition and symmetry in the reconstructed BIM is recognized and regularized for BIM semantic enrichment. A university lecture hall case, consisting of 1.9 million noisy points of 293 chairs, was selected for an experiment to validate the proposed approach. Experimental results showed that a BIM was satisfactorily created (achieving about 90% precision and recall) automatically in 926.6 s; and an even more satisfactory BIM achieved 99.3% precision and 98.0% recall with detected semantic and topological information under the minimal effort of human intervention in 228.4 s. The multimodality model of repetitive objects, the repetition detection and regularization for BIM, and satisfactory reconstruction results in the presented approach can contribute to methodologies and practices in multiple disciplines related to BIM and smart city.

Student critical thinking objectivism

Aim: The goals of this research are to (1) gain a better understanding of what college students mean when they refer to CT, (2) determine whether or not CT can be taught, and (3) determine what approaches would be most effective.Method: Undergraduates studied in a second-year university lecture hall under the guidance of a professor. All students in one class and their teacher are involved in this study. The gathered information pertains solely to the tasks and the students’ evaluations.Findings: Based on the findings of this study, it appears that CT can be taught as a supplementary topic within the framework of a predetermined curriculum. Students’ lists of challenges to CT development and use and assertions that multiple techniques were related to CT development corroborated previous statements in CT research. According to student reports, they are changing their ways of thinking and evaluating aid strategies.Implications/Novel Contribution: To better understand the differences between the experimental and control groups, it would be helpful to conduct additional experiments with these students. One-half of the course experienced interference, while the other half did not. Examining the two groups’ CT skills might shed light on whether or not the knowledge was retained.

Influence of air distribution in modern large university lecture hall on thermal comfort

The paper is focused on the influence of air distribution in modern large university lecture hall on the thermal comfort. Providing the optimal parameters of the thermal comfort in the interiors of a university is immensely important for the students. Meeting these parameters is inevitable not only from physiological point of view but also to achieve the desirable students' performance. Parameters of the thermal comfort are also influenced by air distribution system in large university lecture hall. Correct position of supply air and extract air is very important. Experimental measurements of thermal comfort were carried out in the winter season in the large lecture hall of Vienna University of Economics and Business. The device Testo 480 was used for the measurements. Obtained values of air temperature, air relative humidity, air velocity, globe temperature, indexes PMV and PPD are presented in the charts. Modern air distribution system and air conditioning system of the large university lecture hall were evaluated on the basis of thermal comfort parameters. Conclusion of this paper states the principles of how to design modern air distribution systems and air conditioning systems in the new large university lecture halls.

Evaluation of Indoor Climate in Big Lecture Hall

The paper is oriented on the evaluation of the indoor climate in the big lecture hall. Providing the optimal parameters of the thermal comfort and the CO2 concentration is immensely important for the students in the interiors of a university. Meeting these parameters is inevitable not only from physiological point of view but also for achieving the desirable students' performance. The high CO2 concentration is related to incorrect and insufficient ventilation in the lecture hall and causes distractibility and feeling of tiredness of students. Experimental measurements were carried out in the winter season in 2016 in the big lecture hall in order to evaluate the thermal comfort and the CO2 concentration. The device Testo 480 was used for the measurements. Obtained values of air temperature, air relative humidity, air velocity, CO2 concentration are presented in the charts. Mechanical ventilation system and operation system of the big university lecture hall were evaluated on the basis of the parameters of the thermal comfort and on the basis of the CO2 concentration. Based on the findings, design recommendations for new big university lecture halls are derived. Furthermore, there are presented recommendations how to operate the existing big university lecture halls.

The Role of the Community in Teacher Preparation: Exploring a Different Pathway to Becoming a Teacher

Viewing learning as a social and cultural process the premise of this paper is that learner teachers’ developing expertise should not only reside in the knowledge domains typically established by universities and schools. A crucial knowledge domain that is often overlooked by schools and teacher education institutes (TEIs) is the community beyond the walls of the school classroom and university lecture hall. This paper attends to the question of what constitutes an effective teacher in an era of rapid change and throws light on the process of becoming a twenty-first century educator through examining an innovative curriculum design which has made experiential learning (EL) mandatory for all novice teachers at a TEI in Hong Kong. This challenging curriculum initiative in teacher training has enabled a powerful synergy between the core functions of our teacher-training faculty and the wider community. I seek to present findings that point to real impact on student teachers’ professional development – or their sense of becoming – and also in the way TEIs work within their local communities which are positioned as a powerful knowledge space and knowledge holder in the teacher education process. I will also show how community partners such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a highly significant role in the development of beginning teachers and how they might even be seen as ‘co-educators’ in the complex but compelling process of teacher preparation.

Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class

This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this question by examining the social actions occurring when entering a lecture hall. The primary data includes video recordings, photos, and participatory observations, documented by field notes. The analysis shows how the architectural specifications of a space pose restrictions on visual-embodied interactions. However, the participants configure and reconfigure the space to some extent to suit visual-embodied interaction through explicit and implicit negotiation.

Briefe 1903–1905 by Max Weber (review)

Book Reviews 309© Max Weber Studies 2017. motivates the book. It was not enough for him to write an ‘intellectual history’, rather, he wanted it to become a ‘historically informed normative social theory’ (11). In a critique of Ulrich Beck, whose idea of ‘cosmopolitan Europe’ appears too abstract to him, Harrington prepares a third point: The ‘reflexive modernity’, in which industrial societies self-critically examine their way of living, did not first emerge in the 1970s in the aftermath of the postwar economic boom. A reflexive ‘protesting the West’, sensitive to European provincialization in the global new order after 1918 and distinct from anti-Western nationalism, commenced after the First World War. The debates of these liberal Weimar social scientists can thus serve as a touchstone for contemporary debates about the eroding and estranged West (351-58). Harrington is not particularly interested in the socioeconomic dimension of his topic, and he tends to neglect controversies about the expansion or restraint of capitalism. As a result, the social philosophical aspect comes to fore. Karl Jaspers has the last word: ‘any collective individuality should be understood as becoming, or needing to become “individual not against the general but through the general”’ (373). With Jaspers, Harrington comes to the concluding point of the matter. Cosmopolitan thinking requires thinking about cultural difference. His protagonists correspondingly fight on two fronts. Against an evolutionary narrative of Western civilization, they defend the cultural difference of national traditions. But even more they attack the cultural nationalism that would suggest the possibility of withdrawing from the interconnections of the modern world. In his valuable study, Austin Harrington shows us just how rewarding the engagement with the voices of Weimar can be. Gangolf Hübinger Frankfurt (Oder) Max Weber, Briefe 1903–1905, edited by Gangolf Hübinger and M. Rainer Lepsius, together with Thomas Gerhards and Sybille Oßwald-Bargende (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe II/4; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015), xxii + 750pp. (hbk). ISBN 978-3-16-153428-7. €294.00. One of the most significant contributions of the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe , perhaps the definitive contribution, has been the publication of Max Weber’s correspondence. The letters and related 310 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2017. commentary have opened a window not only onto Weber’s life and work, but also onto the culture and politics of Imperial Germany and the Wilhelmine era, the Great War, and the beginnings of the Weimar Republic. All published volumes of the correspondence are important in their own ways. But the fourth volume that is under review, comprising the crucial years 1903 through 1905, seems especially noteworthy, for it covers Weber’s emergence from illness and return to scholarship, the launching of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, the composition and publication in its pages of The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism, the Webers’ journey to the United States, and Weber’s reentry into the always hypercharged debates in the Verein für Sozialpolitik. Along the way there are reports from numerous other travels—six alone in 1903 to the Italian Riviera, Rome, Scheveningen twice, Ostende, Hamburg, and Helgoland—and, of course, correspondence with family and colleagues , including examples of Weber’s proficiency in written Italian and English. In 1903, Max Weber chose the relative freedom of the life of a private scholar, resigning officially from his Heidelberg professorship and service to the state of Baden, and foregoing his salary. The change was agonizing and discussed at length, resisted by Marianne, but made possible by her impending inheritance, which according to Max’s calculations would provide an annual budget of at least 4,000 Marks. Enjoying the ‘miserable existence’ (Max’s words) of a rentier, he remained a stranger to the university lecture hall for the next fifteen years. The first sign of Weber’s return to intellectual life was the publication in Gustav Schmoller’s Jahrbuch of his painfully labored first essay on ‘Roscher and Knies and the Logical Problems of Historical Economics ’ in October 1903. By then discussions had already begun for Edgar Jaffé to purchase Heinrich Braun’s Archiv für soziale Gesetzgebung und Statistik for the sum of 60,000 Marks, an amount Weber considered a...

Design and Feasibility Analysis of Building Integrated PV (BIPV) System: Case Study in Bahir Dar University Lecture Halls Building

Building Integrated Photovoltaic System (BIPV) is the integration of Photovoltaic (PV) into the building envelope in the top, the facades and or may be used for the building which is built already without PV integration. That is installing or hanging of PV panel in different positron of the building. When the building is integrated with PV panel, it is used as a construction material and again save extra area requirement of installation and at the time it generates the required amount of energy for the habitants of the building is to get from free natural solar energy. Integrating BU in photovoltaic system is the aim to save the large power cost without taking large area for the installation of the photovoltaic panel since the university occupied by large number of students, workers and staffs members. The total estimated cost of initial investment for materials such as PV panels, battery, charge controller, inverter and like is $63,040. It is estimated as BIPV system total cost in the 25years life time is $176,815 which lower than that of the total national grid electricity cost by $40, 185.2 using in HOMER software implementation.