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Effect of building mass on annual heating energy requirements

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SponsorSearch for: International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documentation
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Conference2nd International CIB Symposium on Energy Conservation in the Built Environment: Session 2, 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark
SubjectHeating; simulators (programs); heating (process); single family dwellings; office buildings
Abstract
Based entirely on computer simulation, this study was carried out to determine the effect of the heat storage capacity of a building on its annual heating requirements. Specifically, the annual energy requirements were computed for a large office building and for a single-family house for three Canadian annual weather cycles and for a range of building interior and exterior wall thermal storage capacities. The study indicates that the thermal storage capacity of a building has a relatively small influence on the annual energy requirement for heating.
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  • Proceedings of the 2nd International CIB Symposium on Energy Conservation in the Built Environment : Session 2: 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark (1979): 7–16.
LanguageEnglish
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IdentifierDBR-P-918
NRC numberNRCC 18486
NRC-IRC-1814
NPARC number20377795
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