Passive cooling includes all passive design strategies that reduce the need for mechanical cooling while maintaining thermal comfort. The most important measures are natural ventilation, thermal mass and orientation for cooling.
Read morePassive design concept uses natural resources instead of electricity or fuel to provide the best indoor comfort for building users. These strategies include daylighting, natural ventilation, and solar energy.
Read moreSolar control describes the process to design a building in such a way to minimize solar heat gains and, thus, reduces the need for active cooling. This can be achieved by measures like reducing the window area, optimising the building...
Read moreThe term insulation refers to thermal building insulation which is one of the most important measures to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. Insulation reduces heat loss or heat gain through the building envelope and is a key factor to...
Read moreEnergy efficiency refers to the effort to reduce the energy demand of buildings to provide thermal and visual comfort to its users. In short, energy efficiency means using less energy to provide the same level of comfort. The energy use intensity...
Read moreClimate-responsive design is used as synonym for bioclimatic design and refers to the design practice that considers the local climate conditions at site to provide a comfortable indoor environment to the user and to reduce the energy demand of...
Read moreBioclimatic design considers the local climate conditions during the process of designing a building aiming to provide the best thermal indoor comfort without the need of mechanical means. Basic elements are passive systems which utilise natural...
Read moreIn energy building simulation, the base case model refers to a reference design of a building before starting to optimize the design to improve its thermal performance.
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