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The papers are divided into sessions under the following headings: technical barriers and market employment, energy efficiency and the environment, national and regional programmes, international collaboration aspects.

This paper investigates the feasibility of the application of ice storage/cold air distribution based air conditioning systems in commercial buildings in the South-Eastern Mediterranean area. An office building currently under construction in

Experimental investigations and CFD simulations were carried out to evaluate the performance of square and circular section wind - driven systems for natural ventilation application in buildings. Wind tunnel and smoke visualisation tests were conducted on a full-scale model based on a commercial wind catcher design. The experimental set-up consisted of each system being connected to a model test room. The devices were divided internally into four quadrants/segments for the purpose of air supply and extract.

The Energy Design Advisory Service, set up by the RIAS, is in its sixth successful year. Michael Duncan of RMJM Scotland explains how EDAS has been used.} on projects designed by the practice for widely differing sites primarily in Edinburgh

Fire-barrier requirements in above-ceiling spaces have been relaxed in the new Building Regulations. Anthony Ferguson explains why, and looks at the computer modelling involved.

It is a well-documented fact that the major cause of death in a fire is due to inhalation of hot toxic smoke. The control and effective removal of smoke from a burning building- especially in the vital first minutes, when personnel are being evacuated - has therefore become the central component of every fire protection scheme, writes Jim Wild, Woods' product application manager.

The HVAC system for the new Standard Federal Bank headquarters in Troy, Michigan, the United States, was designed for energy efficiency, low operating costs and a high quality indoor environment. Ice thermal storage and heat reclaim from the building's data centre, in combination with a well insulated building envelope, have resulted in calculated savings of USD 62,000 per year with a payback period of 3.3 years. The design of this building's HVAC system, completed in 1989, exceeds all codesand standards for energy efficiency in the United States.