Energy in New Zealand houses: Comfort, physics and consumption

Building Research and Information

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 470-480

  Isaacs, Nigel ^a   Saville Smith, Kay ^b   Camilleri, Michael ^a   Burrough, Lisa ^a  

^a Building Research Association of New Zealand Limited   (New Zealand)

^b CRESA   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

building performance; building stock; demand temperature; fuel poverty; housing; inhabitant behaviour; New Zealand; residential energy use; space heating

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; BUILDING STOCK; DEMAND TEMPERATURE; FUEL POVERTY; INHABITANT BEHAVIOUR; NEW ZEALAND; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HOUSES;

SPACE HEATING;

EID: 77956223312     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2010.494383     Document Type: Article

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