Floors and flexibility
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Nottingham Trent University, UK, was keen to incorporate environmental considerations into the design of its new Boots Library. Natural ventilation was impossible due to the library's site amidst busy roads, so architects ECD Architects used the TermoDeck system. This system delivers heating and ventilation air through hollow concrete floor slabs with exposed soffits. The system incorporates more effective thermal transfer than similar systems due to the close contact between the concrete and the air. Another major design consideration for the architects was flexibility.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1998
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Summer cooling: using thermal capacity
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BRE have carried out a survey into offices using thermal mass to reduce high summer temperatures rather than air conditioning. The case studies indicate that thermal mass and night-time cooling will not be sufficient to control summer temperatures unless building design and management also reduces heat gain. In particular, suitable building fabric, sun control devices and well-controlled lighting is necessary. Hot equipment should be located in separate areas which can be specially cooled rather than integrated into general office areas.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1992
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Solar power gets serious: bands of photovoltaic cells and clear glazing characterize the 66m-long south facade of new offices being built near Sunderland
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There has been further modest UK government support for photovoltaics, with the photovoltaic arrays attached to an existing Northumbria University building. Another UK project is Akeler Developments project for photovoltaics and related controlled ventilation at Doxford International Business Park in Sunderland. The building features an overall passive design, although there have been difficulties in creating a sound passive design, due to the lack of lighting control system provided at the beginning.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1997
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