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Energy Conscious Building Design

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Since the beginning of energy crisis many design tools have been developed in order to enable the designer to cope with energy consumption in buildings. These tools are of different kind: from very sophisticated simulation models to simplified (often too much) methods. Each of them offers various advantages and disadvantages, and it is up to the designer to choose among them.

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  1. Departmento Di Energetica, E Applicazioni Di Fisica, Universita Di Palermo, Viale Delle Scienze, 900128, Palermo, Italy

    Federico M. Butera

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  1. Centre of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    H. P. Garg

  2. Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Ministry of Energy, New Delhi, India

    M. Dayal

  3. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    G. Furlan

  4. Department of Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, USA

    A. A. M. Sayigh

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Butera, F.M. (1987). Energy Conscious Building Design. In: Garg, H.P., Dayal, M., Furlan, G., Sayigh, A.A.M. (eds) Physics and Technology of Solar Energy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3939-4_11

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