Permeability, porosity and better ventilated design for high density cities

PLEA 2006 - 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ng, Edward ^a   Wong, Hyuk Hien ^b   Han, Meiqi ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Urban design; Wind environment

Indexed keywords

AIR SPEED; AIR VENTILATION; BUILDING HEIGHT; HIGH DENSITY; HONG-KONG; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIND ENVIRONMENT;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84865768427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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