The future of the whole world focuses on reducing waste produced by people. As construction sector is one biggest producers waste, a great deal effort has been made to introduce this trend in modern construction. “green” building sector, therefore, draws attention natural and recyclable materials. These include thermal insulation such as cork, fiberboard, hemp insulation, even sheep wool insula...

Mean radiant temperature (MRT) is one of the six primary factors that determine thermal comfort in a given environment. In this study, average was determined using calculation method based on surrounding surface temperatures and view factors. The present study specifically investigated use calculated temperature, compared to measured for predicting mean vote (PMV) percentage dissatisfied (PPD) ...

The paper describes the calculation of evaporative-radiant cooling recycled water in summer air-conditioning systems. A differential equation for heat balance flowing down an inclined plane is derived. As one possible way increasing efficiency air conditioning systems based on by adiabatic evaporation flow use night-time evaporative water, followed daytime insulated storage tanks. temperature c...

A web-based Roof Savings Calculator (RSC) has been deployed for the United States Department of Energy as an industry-consensus tool to help building owners, manufacturers, distributors, contractors and researchers easily run complex roof and attic simulations. This tool employs modern web technologies, usability design, and national average defaults as an interface to annual simulations of hou...