Assessment of the Portuguese building thermal code: Newly revised requirements for cooling energy needs used to prevent the overheating of buildings in the summer

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3262-3271

  Oliveira Panão, Marta J N ^a   Camelo, Susana M L ^a   Gonçalves, Helder J P ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adaptive comfort; Cooling; EN ISO 13790; Overheating index; Portugal; Thermal building code

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SUN;

ADAPTIVE COMFORT; EN ISO 13790; OVERHEATING INDEX; PORTUGAL; THERMAL BUILDING CODE;

BUILDINGS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEATING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INDEX METHOD; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 79955658666     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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