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Passive Means to Improve the Indoor Thermal Comfort
The building should be designed and constructed first to bring a good indoor environment to its occupants. This chapter addresses thermal comfort and passive means to improve ensure it. These are thermal insulation and inertia, solar collecting area and their solar protections, natural ventilation and combinations of them allowing passive solar heating and passive ventilation cooling. Passive (or constructive) means should be preferred, since they are often cheaper than active or technological ones, and use only energy from the environment. Active ways should then be used only for compensating the insufficiencies of passive ones.
Passive Means to Improve the Indoor Thermal Comfort
The building should be designed and constructed first to bring a good indoor environment to its occupants. This chapter addresses thermal comfort and passive means to improve ensure it. These are thermal insulation and inertia, solar collecting area and their solar protections, natural ventilation and combinations of them allowing passive solar heating and passive ventilation cooling. Passive (or constructive) means should be preferred, since they are often cheaper than active or technological ones, and use only energy from the environment. Active ways should then be used only for compensating the insufficiencies of passive ones.
Passive Means to Improve the Indoor Thermal Comfort
PoliTO Springer Series
Chiesa, Giacomo (editor) / Roulet, Claude-Alain (author)
2021-01-05
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English