Review and critical analysis of early-design phase evaluation metrics for the solar potential of neighborhood designs

Building and Environment

Volumn 92, Issue , 2015, Pages 679-691

  Nault, Emilie ^a   Peronato, Giuseppe ^a   Rey, Emmanuel ^a   Andersen, Marilyne ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Correlation; Early design phase; Neighborhood scale; Passive active solar potential; Performance metrics; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; GEOMETRY;

EARLY DESIGN PHASE; NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SIMULATION; SOLAR POTENTIAL;

DESIGN;

BUILDING; CORRELATION; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ENERGY USE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84930637850     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.05.012     Document Type: Article

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