Passive solar building design

Passive solar building design involves the modeling, selection and use of appropriate passive solar technologies to maintain the building environment at a desired temperature range (usually based around human thermal comfort) throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles. As a result it generally minimizes the use of active solar, renewable energy and especially fossil fuel technologies.

“Passive solar building design” is strongly related to:

Thermal mass (Building) Insulated glazing Degree day Thermal comfort Sun path Heat transfer Passive solar Heliodon History of passive solar building design Passive cooling Window covering Thermal radiation Noon Relative humidity Annualized geo solar Ground-coupled heat exchanger Convection Barra system Cool roof Radiant barrier Solar gain Stack effect Trombe wall Light tube Convective heat transfer Daylighting Zero-energy building Passive house Earth sheltering Building insulation Skylight Reflectivity Perspiration Green roof Solar thermal energy Angle of incidence Wind chill Photovoltaics Solar radiation Turbulence

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