Selecting moisture reference years using a Moisture Index approach

Building and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1367-1379

  Cornick, Steve ^a   Djebbar, Reda ^a   Alan Dalgliesh, W ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Building envelope; Climate; Hygrothermal modeling; Moisture reference years

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

MOISTURE INDEX APPROACH;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING;

EID: 0142025104     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(03)00139-2     Document Type: Article

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