Solid-wall U -values: Heat flux measurements compared with standard assumptions

Building Research and Information

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 238-252

  Li, Francis G N ^a   Smith, A Z P ^a   Biddulph, Phillip ^a   Hamilton, Ian G ^a   Lowe, Robert ^a   Mavrogianni, Anna ^a   Oikonomou, Eleni ^a   Raslan, Rokia ^a   Stamp, Samuel ^a   Stone, Andrew ^a   Summerfield, A J ^a   Veitch, David ^a   Gori, Virginia ^a   Oreszczyn, Tadj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

buildings; energy demand; epidemiology; heat flux measurements; solid walls; thermal conductivity; U value

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; INVESTMENTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY CERTIFICATION; ENERGY DEMANDS; HEAT FLUX MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOLID WALL; STANDARD ASSUMPTIONS; U VALUES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84920171270     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2014.967977     Document Type: Article

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