Sentence examples for use of passive design from inspiring English sources
From these bioclimatic charts, the potential use of passive design strategies such as solar heating, natural ventilation, thermal mass with/without night ventilation and evaporative cooling was assessed.
The use of passive design strategies may reduce up to 50% the future annual cooling and heating energy demand in houses in Brazil.
This paper investigates the role of passive design strategies and using biogas in reducing energy consumption, annual energy cost and CO2 emissions of a new productive country housing model in an ongoing sustainable community development project near Cairo, Egypt.
The bioclimatic chart indicates the boundaries for different types of passive design strategies.
To achieve low and zero net energy performance objectives in buildings, designers must make optimal use of passive environmental design strategies.
Examined in detail is the use of energetically passive designs, especially of the dissipative variety.
The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the use of climate-sensitive passive design solutions can help the improvement of indoor thermal conditions while reducing the energy needs and ultimately carbon emissions.
It describes the way the Energy Accountancy Equation [1] can be modified to relate the noise radiated directly to the sum of the squares of the large rates of change of force against time, and illustrates clearly the way that noise control, with use of passive or active methods in designing the punch tooling, can be related directly to the one parameter 10 log Σ[f(t)]max2.
There have been a number of developments in the need, design and use of passive air samplers (PAS) for persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The process included field measurements of the thermal characteristics in the examined area, bioclimatic design and use of passive cooling techniques (cool materials, green spaces, water, solar control & earth to air heat exchangers).
Another key component of software design is the use of passive messaging where possible.
