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A Survey of Passive Solar Buildings (Paperback)
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A Survey of Passive Solar Buildings (Paperback)
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Loot Price R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
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This publication of passive solar projects built in the United
States has been prepared to document the state of the art in
passive solar design. Passive solar heating and cooling can provide
a major percentage of the buildings' energy requirement, while at
the same time representing a heightened level of involvement for
the architect in the design stages of the building. The full
potential of this passive conditioning depends on a sensitive
awareness of the relationship between climate, comfort, and the
thermal characteristics of buildings and building materials.
Passive solar systems are often misunderstood and vaguely defined.
Many of the approaches to passive solar heating and cooling are at
rudimentary stages, with little performance data and evaluation,
few modeling techniques, and minimal published information. Yet for
the building designer and the occupant, these concepts have major
implications in the design and use of buildings. The purpose of
this publication is to offer a working definition and a basic
understanding of a number of existing applications of passive solar
designs. Methods of passive solar design are not presented in this
publication; nor are rules of thumb or passive solar assemblies and
components. These subjects will be addressed in later publications.
A reference bibliography has been included to assist the reader who
desires more information and to stimulate additional individual
research and testing. Passive design techniques can be integrated
in an additive fashion in more typical buildings -but this
challenge for now, is left to the reader.
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