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Bau, January 17-21, Munich, Jim Roche
Bau, January 17-21, Munich, Jim Roche
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This bi-annual five-day event is one of the
leading and biggest trade fares of architecture,
materials, building systems and craft skills in
the world. Held in the huge Messe München
Trade Fair Center in eastern Munich and
stretching over 17 gigantic halls each the size
of a football pitch, it offers a truly rich display of
the latest innovations in building technology.
Compact Facility For Testing Steady And Transient Thermal Performance Of Building Walls, Aimee Byrne, Gerard Byrne, Anthony Robinson
Compact Facility For Testing Steady And Transient Thermal Performance Of Building Walls, Aimee Byrne, Gerard Byrne, Anthony Robinson
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Energy efficiency retrofit of buildings represents a key effort in reducing EU energy demand by 20% by 2020. However, predictions tend to overestimate savings by large percentages. The shortfall in savings can be attributed to incorrect predictive techniques, comfort takeback along with other behavioural and workmanship variables. Common predictive techniques related to heat loss tend to be based on the U-value of the building envelope. This paper presents the design of a more straightforward and compact version of the traditional Hot-Box apparatus (measures U-value) which instead determines the thermal resistance of samples of building envelope. U-value includes the need to …