Air conditioning and energy efficiency

Green architecture needs norms and regulations

The Italian government has decreed that starting July 2007, new and old buildings being put on sale will need energy-saving certificates. The initiative is part of the government's efforts to cut

Traditional architecture makes for better homes

But building biology helps remove harmful electromagnetic fields from architecture

This paper attempts a preliminary assessment of indoor conditions and thermal comfort in a room coupled with direct evaporative cooler in four different climatic zones of India. A room in a building has been simulated to obtain diurnal hourly values of room air dry bulb temperature and relative humidity for the summer months of March, April, May and June in selected locations in (i) hot and dry, (ii) composite, (iii) warm and humid, and (iv) moderate climatic zones.