Advice tool for early design stages of intelligent facades based on energy and visual comfort approach

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 480-488

  Ochoa, Carlos Ernesto ^a   Capeluto, Isaac Guedi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Design process; Design tools; Energy approach; Expert systems; Hot climate; Intelligent facades

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FACADES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN TOOLS; ENERGY APPROACH; HOT CLIMATE; INTELLIGENT FACADES;

DESIGN;

EID: 62649125162     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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