Design of roofs for increased solar potential BIPV/T systems and their applications to housing units

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 118, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 660-676

  Hachem, Caroline ^a   Athienitis, Andreas ^a   Fazio, Paul ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSING; MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; HEAT AND ELECTRICITY; HEATING AND COOLING; HEATING AND COOLING LOADS; ORIENTATION ANGLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC/THERMAL SYSTEMS;

ROOFS;

EID: 84872014527     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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