LoginA first question attendees from oversees may ask is: what is meant by building physics? In fact, the name is hardly used in the Anglo-Saxon and Roman countries.
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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Simulation is useful in many aspects of the design, control, and evaluation of buildings and their associated heating and cooling equipment.
In the paper cooling loads are calculated and analysed under different distribution percentages of radiant heat sent out by indoor heat sources to the envelope of an upward displacement ventilation room with different constructions.
The following notes were produced "on line", during the conference. A minimum of corrections and additions were a posteriori introduced, in order to make the text readable. But no attempt was made to "soften" the comments.
Modern refrigeration technology including absorption refrigeration has coexisted with the more standard type of vapour compression systems ever since the beginning of refrigeration.
For its new building in Mons, the RTBF (Radio and Television organism of the Belgian French Community) decided, with the help of the Walloon Region, to design several equipments with special techniques characterised by a rational and economical us