Building façade design for daylighting quality in typical government office building

Building and Environment

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 194-204

  Lim, Yaik Wah ^a   Kandar, Mohd Zin ^a   Ahmad, Mohd Hamdan ^a   Ossen, Dilshan Remaz ^a   Abdullah, Aminatuzuhariah Megat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Blinds; Field measurement; Glare; Glazing; Light shelf; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BLINDS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLAZING; LIGHT SHELF; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; GLARE; GLAZES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PUBLIC WORKS; TROPICS;

DAYLIGHTING;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; LIGHT QUALITY; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; SIMULATION;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 84861933906     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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