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An alternative to air conditioning.

Author(s) : EVANS B.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Describes Simmonds Farson Cisk's Malta Brewery, a factory building in which no cooling services system is used despite outdoor summer temperatures of 35 deg C and above. A year's monitoring of the building shows that it is performing much as predicted. The building is designed to minimise solar heat gain, to use the thermal capacity of the walls, floors and roof to even out diurnal temperature variations, to encourage ventilation at night to remove heat from the walls and roof and to provide good daylight without attendant solar gains.

Details

  • Original title: An alternative to air conditioning.
  • Record ID : 1994-1184
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Archit. J. - vol. 197 - n. 6
  • Publication date: 1993/02/10

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