Effect of external shading devices on daylighting penetration in residential buildings

Lighting Research and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 317-333

  Wong, Nyuk Hien ^a   Istiadji, Agustinus Djoko ^a   Ng, E ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLARE; ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING;

DAYLIGHTING DESIGN; EXTERNAL SHADING DEVICES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS;

DAYLIGHTING;

EID: 10944242368     PISSN: 14771535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1365782804li126oa     Document Type: Article

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