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Building Fabric 1 PDF
Building Fabric 1 PDF
Building Fabric 1 PDF
BY-
Asst prof. Khurram Ali
Gateway College of architecture & Design
Sonipat, Haryana
Friday, October 07, 2016
INTENT
• To understand the factors which affect the thermal comfort also how to
control them.
• Thermal quantities
• Temperature
• Heat
• Conductivity
• Resistance
• Thermal capacity
The study of heat transfer plays a very important role in understanding behaviour of any
building in response to climatic conditions and climatic changes. This understanding enables to
predict more scientifically, the change in internal environment of any building envelope due to
changes in weather conditions.
Heat flow
Thermal Mass
Thermal Aspect Of Space
Potential Of Climatic Control
Building Fabric
• Thermal mass
• Thermal resistance
• Time Lag Factor
• Thermal Conductivity
• Transmittance or U-Value
• Thermal insulation
Thus, if all the fundamental sources of heat loss and heat gain in a building
are properly considered, it is possible to determine quite accurately the
resulting internal conditions within it and, more importantly, how comfortable it
is likely to be or how much air-conditioning energy will be required to make it
so.
Thermal Resistance
• Conductivity
• A construction layer with a high thermal resistance , is a good
insulator; one with a low thermal resistance (e.g. concrete) is a
bad insulator.
• R value
• Resistance is usually given as an "R" value which is the
resistance of one square metre of the material subject to a one
degree temperature difference.
R- VALUE
•R = l/ k
•Where: R = the thermal resistance per unit area of the piece of material
(m²K/W),
l = represents the thickness of the material (m), and
k = represents the conductivity of the material (W/mK).
Transmittance or U-Value
• This means that the higher the U value the worse the thermal
OUTSIDE - - 0.06
TOTAL 2.25