Sentence examples for opaque building from inspiring English sources

Solar reflectance and thermal conductivity are two main factors which affect the heat transfer through opaque building envelope and cooling energy consumption of buildings in tropical countries and other regions in summer season.

Although daylighting may be abundant in an atrium, with large exposed window surfaces, such design is typically avoided in high-performance houses due to the poorer thermal performance of glazing compared to opaque building envelopes.

The proposed method allows one to determine the transient thermophysical performance of opaque building components that are associated with a thermal zone maintained at constant or variable air temperature.

Getting a toehold in Asia was particularly time-consuming, but the firm now has an office with 40 people in Shanghai that helps with local project oversight, models, presentations to clients and the notoriously opaque building regulations in Chinese cities.The ease of exchanging information around the world has fuelled fears that even service jobs will be outsourced away from America.

Field studies of naturally ventilated residential buildings were conducted at Mandi town, located in western Himalayan Indian state of Himachal Pradesh with composite climate, during winter and summer months of 2013 and 2014 to assess the impact of opaque building envelope materials on indoor thermal condition.

As reported in the scientific literature and mentioned in building energy performance legislation, the thermal inertia of the opaque building envelope can have a significant positive impact on the reduction of summer indoor overheating, of space cooling peak load and of electricity consumption.

Suddenly it's dark in the streets when work is over, and suddenly the city seems like a collection of brightly lit interior spaces rather than a maze of opaque buildings.

At night, the glass structures are illuminated from the inside, shining like lanterns in sharp contrast to Mansfeld's opaque buildings.

In this paper, effect of dynamic properties of building opaque envelope is investigated in winter conditions through an extensive continuous monitoring campaign of a dedicated experimental field.

Goldman Sachs: As Opaque As Its Building?

Ultimately, Goldman's financials necessarily appear as opaque as their building.