Sentences with phrase «summer heat gain»

The section on passive cooling has a lot of ideas and schemes for reducing summer heat gain.

Remember that for good solar passive heating performance, you need to have south facing windows with high Solar Heat Gain Coefficients (SHGC), and you will want to provide a means to prevent unwanted summer heat gain from these windows.

Overhangs around the entire project are calculated to protect from summer heat gain.

The building is oriented to maximize winter solar heat gain while minimizing summer heat gain.

This design also minimizes unwanted summer heat gain on the hot east and west sides.

Not exact matches

Swimming provides much - needed relief from pregnancy weight gain, swelling, pressure, loosening of the joints and the intense summer heat, says Johnson.

Meanwhile, the non-profit EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse, a partnership between Washington State University and the nonprofit Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, found that under ideal circumstances insulating paints can achieve a «reduction in heat gain» of around 20 percent on freshly - painted sun - exposed walls, but notes that such walls will only face direct sunlight for a limited part of even the clearest summer day.

Very little happening in summer itself (as expected) as the melting ice surface and heat sensible heat gain in the mixed layer limit the surface air temperature change.

You see the signal in autumn, as this is when the ocean is losing the heat it gained (in summer) back to the atmosphere.

Very little happening in summer itself (as expected) as the melting ice surface and heat sensible heat gain in the mixed layer limit the surface air temperature change.

Note that in winter the sun is low, and so heat gain through the roof is low, but in summer the sun is high, so heat gain increases, which can overload the attic ventilation system.

That aside, less summer ice will mean a lot more heat gain throughout the Arctic, with dorect local implications for the permafrost, the Greenland ice sheet and (worst case) the East Siberian Shelf shallow clathrates.

Last but not least, it costs less to operate because there is virtually no heat loss (or heat gain in the summer) due to uncontrolled air infiltration.

In other passive house projects it has been observed that shutters are sometimes used more for privacy than for summer shading; if left closed during the heating season this would tend to hinder rather than help the thermal performance by blocking out winter solar gains.

Radiant barrier placed in the attic or roof system can reflect 97 % of radiant heat, keeping the excess solar gain in summer from the living spaces.

Low - E coatings may also reduce heat gain due to their reflective nature, making them viable options for keeping heat in during the winter, and out during the summer.

The consequential increased heat gain in summer can be managed by shading.

Additionally, the hot water system runs all year round and can, therefore, contribute internal heat gains in summer.

Note how the roof is trimmed on the south exposure to form overhangs for the windows that reduce the unwanted heat gain from the summer sun, while still allowing passive solar gain in the winter.

In such cases, the structure maximizes solar heat gain in summer and gets almost no heat from the sun in winter.

Conventional thinking says putting insulation in a building prevents heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer.

More, heat gain into the tiny house during summer will be a problem.

It results in excessive heat gain during the summer, and heat loss in the winter.

Early vernacular buildings developed using these universal principles, carefully orienting and shading buildings so that they gained heat in winter and were shady in summer, introducing thermal mass in dry climates, and in more humid ones using cross ventilation, porches, shutters, ceiling fans, solar chimneys and insulation.

The south facade's deep roof overhang provides passive solar protection for the building's interior in the summer, while allowing passive solar heat gain in the winter.

With every window that is providing light, there is also heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter.

Third, the cantilever shades the windows of the first story of the house so as to block out the harsh summer sun, while allowing plenty of light and passive solar heat gain in the winter when the sun is lower on the horizon.

There have been a few questions on whether bubble wrap is effective in reducing unwanted heat gain in the summer.

The bubble wrap adds insulation, so just as this added insulation helps to reduce heat loss from the warm room to the cold outside in the winter, it also helps to reduce heat gain from the hot outside to the cool room in the summer, and that is good and helps the room run cooler.

Obviously it reduces heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer but this isn't the full story.

When compared to the heat of the summer, it's clear the momentum from the Midwest and the South has stalled, where in July quarterly prices gained 2.1 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively.

(MCT)-- Screens and shades placed on the outside of windows have been gaining popularity as people expect they will reduce indoor heat and help push down their electricity bills for the summer.

Additionally, window coverings increase energy efficiency in all kinds of weather, by blocking heat gain in summer as well as helping to maintain a comfortable inside temperature when it's cold outside.