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A simple design tool for the thermal study of an office building
Elisabeth Gratia,André De Herde +1 more
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In this article, the OPTI program (the office building module) is designed to help architects, engineers and design departments to take into account the impact of design choices on energy consumption designing a project.About:
This article is published in Energy and Buildings.The article was published on 2002-03-01. It has received 63 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal mass & Design tool.read more
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"architect friendly": a comparison of ten different building performance simulation tools
TL;DR: The results of comparing ten major Building Performance Simulation tools are presented and the key findings are summarized and underlines the major requirements for future improvement and development of BPS tools, mainly from an architectural perspective.
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Design of low energy office buildings
Elisabeth Gratia,André De Herde +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from practice and meteorological data for Belgium (northern part of Europe) to determine directions which should be used in practice to design energy efficient buildings with a good thermal interior climate.
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Natural cooling strategies efficiency in an office building with a double-skin facade
Elisabeth Gratia,André De Herde +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the efficiency of the various strategies in an office building with and without a double-skin facade during a sunny summer day, mainly studying the natural night ventilation possibility in related to the double skin orientation and the speed and orientation wind.
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Optimal operation of a south double-skin facade
Elisabeth Gratia,André De Herde +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multistory double-skin facades behavior was studied for eight types of days, and the thermal properties of the building with and without double skin facades were compared.
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Natural ventilation in a double-skin facade
Elisabeth Gratia,André De Herde +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the performance of double-skin facades in a sunny summer day and analyze their behavior for various conditions, such as impact of the double skin orientation and impact of wind orientation and the degree of wind protection.