In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in...

earlier meaning, used since the 1970s, was a low-energy building designed to exploit passive solar technologies and establish a comfortable indoor temperature...

The passive solar design of buildings includes consideration of their orientation to the sun and their thermal mass, factors which have been incorporated...

Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal...

(cooling) system that uses solar power. This can be done through passive solar design, solar thermal energy conversion, and photovoltaic conversion (sunlight...

efficiency building codes both in Canada and internationally. It shaped the field of energy-efficient construction, including passive solar building design and...

Trombe wall is a passive solar building design strategy that adopts the concept of indirect-gain, where sunlight first strikes a solar energy collection...

Solar gain (also known as solar heat gain or passive solar gain) is the increase in thermal energy of a space, object or structure as it absorbs incident...

Low-energy buildings may be viewed as examples of sustainable architecture. Low-energy houses often have active and passive solar building design and components...

following: Design of a building which considers whole building design including architecture, structural engineering, passive solar building design and HVAC...

of microgeneration technology and low-energy building techniques, such as: passive solar building design, insulation and careful site selection and placement...

convection of air heated by passive solar energy. A simple description of a solar chimney is that of a vertical shaft utilizing solar energy to enhance the...

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(e.g., solar panels) have been published for an upgrade to an existing house here. Since the 1980s, passive solar building design and passive house have...

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United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Sunrooms may feature passive solar building design to heat and illuminate them. In Great Britain, which has a long...

control systems Passive solar building design, which uses (or avoids) sunlight as an energy source without active mechanical systems Passive house, a standard...

systems, concentrated solar power, and solar water heating to harness the energy. Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting...

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A solar-pumped laser (or solar-powered laser) is a laser that shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as emitting a beam consisting...

film solar has provided a lightweight yet robust vehicle to harness solar energy to reduce a building's impact on the environment. The idea of passive solar...

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electrical building components. Site and building orientation have some major effects on a building's HVAC efficiency. Passive solar building design allows...

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populated areas." In the 1970s and 1980s, he became an advocate for passive solar building design and superinsulation. He opposed the Strategic Defense Initiative...

systems, whereas solar access is a right to sunlight upon certain building façades regardless of the presence of active or passive solar energy systems...

demand-side measures, including daylighting, retrofitted building insulation, and passive solar building design, as well as socio-economic factors, such as aspects...