Passive strategies for commercial buildings: a treasure trove of design guidelines and actual performance data awaits architects and contractors as a result of a wide-ranging passive commercial building program

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Commercial passive designers learned that residence-learned intuition cannot be trusted, that passive commercial buildings are dynamic structures adjusting to each variation in solar conditions, that the simpler the design the more effective, that building scale-models is the way to test daylighting solutions, that the most successful projects have the best-integrated design, and that the better defined the energy problem at the outset, the less expensive and more efficient the ensuing design process seems.

Nonresidential construction, not elsewhere classified, Usage, Finance, Energy use, Energy policy, Johnson Controls Inc., Commercial buildings, Office buildings, United States. Department of Energy, Solar design, Passive, Passive solar design, Kurkowski, Ted

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Choosing your system: passive principles

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Sunspace, or greenhouse, costs more but provides more floor space. Direct gain suits small-aperture passive systems. Trombe wall is for additional-aperture system exceeding 6-8% of floor space. With night insulation, the 3 yield similar annual energy; otherwise, direct gain does less well; in warm climates, sunspaces are best for cooling since they can be thermally uncoupled from the house in summer.

Officials and employees, Economic aspects, Equipment and supplies, Solar houses, Total Environmental Action Inc.

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Rowhouse retrofit

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The use of Heat Mirror on the front of an apartment house in Boston is examined. Construction and costs are reviewed.

Heating equipment, except electric, Design and construction, Buildings and facilities, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Solar heating, Apartment houses, Apartment buildings, Boston, Hale, Stephen

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