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  • Posted by Yan Krymsky on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:52AM

    Eleanor Lee of LBNL Lecture @ USC Facade Conference 2010

    FACADES CONFERENCE 2010
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
    GIN D. WONG, FAIA CONFERENCE CENTER
    NOVEMBER 19-20, 2010

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Integrated, High Performance Facade Solutions

    Introducing the appropriate tools, tests and methods early in the design process can lead to more successful building facades. The speaker, Eleanor Lee emphasized the importance of balancing HVAC loads, artificial lighting and day lighting to achieve optimal performance. She introduced several freely-available analysis tools that can be used at different scales of facade analysis to alert designers to potential human comfort issues (glare, solar heat gain, etc.) Among these where COMFEN ...

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