Designing and specifying underfloor systems: Shedding light on common myths

HPAC Heating, Piping, AirConditioning Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 26-39

  Bauman, Fred S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; HEAT TRANSFER; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THERMOSTATS; VENTILATION CODES; WEBSITES;

DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION HEIGHT; UNDERFLOOR AIR DISTRIBUTION;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 0345790221     PISSN: 15274055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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