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A review of experiences of low energy buildings: exploring the opportunities and limitations of low energy building design.

Author(s) : FORD A., GILLICH A.

Summary

Understanding how to design sustainable Low Energy Buildings is a topic with high relevance in a world facing the challenge of decarbonisation. This paper describes a time line through the thinking over a twenty year period. It draws on the author’s personal experience of designing and constructing low energy buildings. It will consider the key elements for success, how thinking evolved through a chain of designs and suggest how the ideas might be taken forward. The paper begins with a series of buildings designed in the late 1980’s at the University of East Anglia which made significant steps forward in delivering long term low energy buildings. It then explores how the ideas evolved with particular consideration of the role of thermal storage and cooling both at an individual building scale concluding with community level solutions delivered in the first decade of 2000.

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  • Original title: A review of experiences of low energy buildings: exploring the opportunities and limitations of low energy building design.
  • Record ID : 30014050
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Figures, economy, Environment
  • Publication date: 2015
  • Source: Source: Proceedings of the Institute of Refrigeration. Session 2014-2015.

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