Sentence examples for opaque buildings from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

I look out the window at that opaque building, described by pro-lifers as the site of a vigil and by everybody else as a health clinic.

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.

In this paper, analytical expressions have been derived for room air temperature of building integrated semitransparent photovoltaic thermal (BISPVT) and building integrated opaque photovoltaic thermal (BIOPVT) systems each integrated to the roof of a room with and without air duct.

The passive design components covered building forms, opaque envelopes, fenestrations, shadings, natural ventilation, and thermal mass materials.