Passive Solar Commercial Building Performance. Review of Hourly Data from Four Monitored Buildings

摘要

This volume has been assembled by the Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC) in order to document the achievements, both advances and failures, of passive solar technologies implemented in commercial buildings. The focus of the analyses performed by AEC was to extract the lessons learned in terms of passive performance, comfort, and interaction of the passive systems, the mechanical systems, and the buildings and their usage. These lessons learned provide insight into how well the buildings function for their intended use, they provide information about how future buildings for similar functions should be designed, and they provide information about how these buildings and other similar buildings should be operated to balance comfort with performance. The performance of each of the four buildings is presented in a self-contained report. An overview of the data acquisition and evaluation process for each specific building is provided. The interactions of the building systems and functions are summarized. The detailed analyses of the response of the buildings to the passive solar heating, cooling and daylighting features are presented. (ERA citation 10:027238)