Energy efficient office buildings with passive cooling - Results and experiences from a research and demonstration programme

Solar Energy

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 424-434

  Voss, Karsten ^a   Herkel, Sebastian ^b   Pfafferott, Jens ^b   Löhnert, Günter ^c   Wagner, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^c Solidar planungswerkstatt   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy monitoring; Office buildings; Passive cooling; Thermal comfort; User behaviour

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS; VENTILATION;

ENERGY MONITORING; THERMAL COMFORT; USER BEHAVIOUR;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS; VENTILATION;

BUILDING; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; RESEARCH PROGRAM; VENTILATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33846625137     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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