Passive-solar-cooling system concepts for small office buildings. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5567440· OSTI ID:5567440

Whiddon, W. I.; Hart, G. K.

This report summarizes the efforts of a small group of building design professionals and energy analysis experts to develop passive solar cooling concepts including first cost estimates for small office buildings. Two design teams were brought together at each of two workshops held in the fall of 1982. Each team included an architect, mechanical engineer, structural engineer, and energy analysis expert. This report presents the passive cooling system concepts resulting from the workshops. It summarizes the design problems, solutions and first-cost estimates relating to each technology considered, and documents the research needs identified by the participants in attempting to implement the various technologies in an actual building design. Each design problem presented at the workshops was based on the reference (base case) small office building analyzed as part of LBL's Cooling Assessment. Chapter II summarizes the thermal performance, physical specifications and estimated first-costs of the base case design developed for this work. Chapters III - VI describe the passive cooling system concepts developed for each technology: beam daylighting; mass with night ventilation; evaporative cooling; and integrated passive cooling systems. The final Chapters, VII and VIII present the preliminary implications for economics of passive cooling technologies (based on review of the design concepts) and recommendations of workshop participants for future research in passive cooling for commercial buildings. Appendices provide backup information on each chapter as indicated.

• Research Organization: Whiddon (W.I.) and Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD (USA); Hart, McMurphy and Parks, Bethesda, MD (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-82SF11681
• OSTI ID: 5567440
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/11681-T1; ON: DE83017461
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Microfiche only, copy does not permit paper copy reproduction
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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