Influence of active heat sinks on fabric thermal storage in building mass

摘要

There is an increasing drive towards low energy architecture and developing buildings that work with the climate rather than in spite of it. One technology in the area of low energy building design is that of utilising building thermal mass and/or active thermal storage sys- tems. Essentially the mass acts as a thermal flywheel and can both attenuate external energy flows and suppress internal environmental energy swings.