[Bldg-sim] Is there a quick model for double skins facades?

[Marques da Silva]

Hi Matthias

How are you?

Do you really think so about bestafacade "model"? I think it's so over 
simplified that it becomes useless.

I was expecting you to advise the use of TRNSYS...

Fernando
> Hi,
>
> you may want to use one of the following two online tools:
>
> http://www.bestfacade.com/textde/BestFacadeDSF_InternetTool/index.html
>
> http://designadvisor.mit.edu/
>
> Both should give you a good estimate with respect to energy, daylight 
> and comfort.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -- 
> best regards
>
> Matthias Haase
> Ass. Prof NTNU, Department of Architectural Design, History, and 
> Technology
> Trondheim, Norway
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Varkie C Thomas <thomasv at iit.edu 
> <mailto:thomasv at iit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     The Manulife building in Boston has a double facade
>
>     http://www.som.com/content.cfm/601_congress_street
>
>      
>
>
>     We are doing a project in a pretty cold climate. The project
>     design has a really big glass façade facing south. One of the
>     ideas to reduce conductive heat loss is to create a double skin
>     façade on the south side.
>
>      
>
>     Now I realize that this is going to take a fair amount of analysis
>     work to design it properly. What I was wondering is if there is a
>     quick analysis tool/methodology to tell if this is even feasible
>     to go into more detailed analysis.
>
>      
>
>     Any help would be much appreciated
>
>      
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