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Building and Environment The International Journal of Building Science and its Applications
EDITORIAL BOARD E d i t o r - - C . B. W i l s o n , Professor of Architectural Science, Department of Architecture, University
of Edinburgh, 20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JZ, Scotland, U.K. A s s o c i a t e E d i t o r - - A . W. H a n d r y , Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
and Building Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Review EditorgA.
J. M a c d o n a l d , Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh,
20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JZ, Scotland, U.K. H e n r y J. C o w a n , Professor of Architectural Science, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006,
Australia. A l b e r t G. H. D i e t z , Professor of Building Engineering, Emeritus, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. J o h n P. E b e r h a r d , Executive Director, Advisory Board on the Built Environment, National
Research Council, Washington, DC 20418, U.S.A. Director of the Research Centre for Standardization (COBN), 00033 Warszawa, ul Gorskiego 7, Poland. P e t e r M a n n i n g , Professor of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia, P.O. Box 1000, Halifax, N.S., Canada. Stefan
Janicki,
Dinash M o h a n , Director and Professor, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee (U.P.), India. P a t r i c k O ' S u l l i v a n , Professor of Architectural Science, The Welsh School of Architecture,
UWIST, 28 Park Place, Cardiff CF1 3BA, Wales, U.K. J. K. Page, Professor, Department of Building Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
S10 2TN, U.K. H a r r i e t Ryd, Professor, Department of Built Form and Environmental Design, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44, Stockholm 70, Sweden. R i c h a r d N. W r i g h t , Director, Centre for Building Technology, Institute for Applied Technology,
National Bureau of Standards,. Washington, DC 20234, U.S.A. Lev Z e t l i n , President, Zetlin Argo, Liaison and Guidance Corp., 60 East 42nd St., Suite 2204,
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CONTENTS OF V O L U M E 18 Vol.
18, No. 1/2
G. Massouros and P. Drakatos
Pressure distribution at the top points of a heating system
F. Vahid
Cost analysis of domestic heat pump systems
N. D. Kaushika and S. K. Rao
Non-convective roof pond with movable insulation for passive solar space heating in cold climates
M. G. Davies
Optimum design of resistance and capacitance elements in modelling a sinusoidally excited building wall
19
Building energy needs and ambient temperature and solar radiation statistics
39
S. Chandra, K. Ruberg and A. Kerestecioglu
Outdoor testing of small scale naturally ventilated models
45
Q . T . Pham
Generalized two-region model for infiltration studies
55
J. P. Bunn
The thermal response of a homogeneous slab to a constant heat flux
61
The prediction of the building-environment systems
65
M. G. Davies
E. A. Lord and C. B. Wilson A. Elmallawany B. Stafford Smith and D. P. Abergel
behaviour
of
Field investigations of the sound insulation in school buildings
85
Approximate analysis of high-rise structures comprising coupled walls and shear walls
91
ANNOUNCEMENT
97
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Vol. 1 8, No. 3
J. S. Gero, N. D'Cruz and A. D. Radford
Energy in context: a multicriteria model l\)r building design
M. J. Cunningham
A new analytical approach to the long term beha,,iour of moisture concentrations in building cavities I. Non-condensing cavity
l ()el
A new analytical approach to the long term behaviour of moisture concentration in building cavities [I. Condensing cavity
117
A note on the obstruction angle model for block spacing
125
Synthesis of artificial lighting to satisfy multiple design criteria
129
Optimal designs for star circuits for radiant exchange in a room
135
Economic comparison of single family vs. multifamily housing
I51
Long range dynamic locational planning of production in an industrial sector
159
Reply to Professor J~.ndy's letter
160
M. J. Cunningham
W. Fawcett
D. J. Carter
M. G. Davies
A. Warszawski, A. AIweyl and E. lshai
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR G. J/mdy
A. Warszawski
161
ANNOUNCEMENT
Vol. 1 8, No. 4
A. E. Wheidon and D. Hull
The thermal environment in the neonatal nursery
163
E. A. B. Maldonado and J. E. Woods
A method to select locations for indoor air quality sampling
171
M. Sandberg and M. Sj6berg
The use of moments for assessing air quality in ventilated rooms
18 I
Dynamic characteristics of an air-conditioned room with high sidewall outlet
199
Simulation of the full and part load energy consumption of HVAC system of building
207
The calculation of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity from transient heating measurements
219
P. C. Bhattacharyya
A. E. Samuel and T. H. Chia
W. L. V. Price
iv
A U T H O R INDEX Kaushika, N. D., 9 Kerestecioglu, A., 45
Abergel, D. P., 91 Alweyl, A., 151 Bhattacharyya, P. C., Bunn, J . P . , 61
Lord, E. A.,
199
65
Maldonado, E. A. B., Massouros, G., 1
Carter, D. J., 129 Chandra, S., 45 Chia, T. H., 207 109,117 Cunningham, M. J.,
Pham, Q. T., 55 Price, W. L . V . ,
219
D'Cruz, N., 99 Davies, M. G., 19,39,135 Drakatos, P., 1
Radford, A. D., Rao, S. K., 9 Ruberg, K., 45
Elmallawany,
Samuel, A. E., 207 Sandberg, M., 181 Sjoberg, M., 181 Stafford Smith, B.,
A.,
Fawcett, W.,
125
Gero, J. S.,
99
85
Vahid, F., Hull, D.,
Ishai,
171
99
91
5
163
E.,
151
Jandy, G.,
159
Warszawski, A., 151,160 Wheldon, A . E . , 163 Wilson, C. B., 65 Woods, J. E., 171
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