Environmental performance of a naturally ventilated city centre library

This paper describes the Frederick Lanchester Library at Coventry University, UK, that incorporates natural ventilation, daylighting and passive cooling strategies and presents the energy consumption and the internal temperatures and CO2 levels recorded in 2004/2005. The performances are good, the building uses under half the energy of a standard air-conditioned building and can keep the interior comfortable and up to 5C below ambient.