Passivhaus Basics: What is the Passivhaus Building Envelope? Find out what it is and why it matters in this plain English blog post.
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The building walls which form the major part of the building envelope thermally interact with the changing surrounding environment throughout the day influencing the indoor thermal comfort of the space. This paper aims at assessing in detail the different aspects (thermophysical properties, thickness, exposure to solar heat gain, etc.) of opaque building wall materials affecting the indoor thermal environment and energy efficiency of the buildings in tropical climate (in the summer and winter days) by conducting simplified simulation analysis using the Integrated Environmental Solutions Virtual Environment (IES-VE) program. Besides, the thermal efficiency of a number of selected wall materials with different thermal properties and wall configurations was analysed to determine the most optimal option for the studied climate. This study first developed the conditions for parametric simulation analysis and then addressed selected findings by comparing the thermal responses of the materials to moderate outdoor temperature and energy-saving potential. While energy consumption estimation for a complete operational building is a complex method by which the performance of the wall materials cannot be properly defined, as a result, this simplistic simulation approach can guide the designers to preliminary analyse the different building wall materials in order to select the best thermal efficiency solution.
PhD thesis describing a research project carried out at the Technical University of Denmark in close collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects.
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Image 11 of 11 from gallery of As Climate Becomes Extreme, How to Deal with the Building Envelope?. Cortesia de Saint-Gobain
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High intensity, passive cooling was shown to be an effective strategy for passive cooling of buildings regardless of the building envelope type
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(in progress) Snapping Facade explores a sustainable building envelope design strategy that utilizes elastic...
