MEEB Chapter 7: Heat Flow

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What are the basic components of Windows, doors, floors, walls, and roofs
a building envelope?

Norberg- Schulz suggests that a As a connector, filter, switch, or barrier

component can more
fundamentally be thought of in
terms of its design intent relative to
the exchange of energies?

What is a connector? To establish a direct connection

What is a filter? To make the connection indirect (controlled)

What is a switch? A regulating connector

What is a barrier? A separating element

Intended to convert an environmental force directly into

What is a transformer?
a different and desirable energy form

How is the fundamental range of By the open frame and the closed shell
choices surrounding envelope
intent and components illustrated?

When would a designer use closed In harsh climates or where unwanted external influences
shell? such as noise or visual clutter abound

When would a designer use open When external conditions are very close to the desired
frame? beginning one

The designer frequently conceives of the building

envelope as a closed shell and proceeds to selectively
What is barrier- dominated?
punch holes in it to make limited contact with the
outdoors
 When the external conditions are very close to the
desired internal ones, the envelope often begins as an
What is connector- dominated?
open structural frame with pieces of building skin
selectively added to modify only a few outdoor forces

True or False: A connector, filter, or True

barrier for one natural force may
change its role for another force

What happens if defending against Barrier- dominated envelopes may be appropriate in any
outdoor conditions becomes an climate
overriding consideration?

What is a designer's way of Switches

allowing an envelope to respond in
a variable manner and/ or giving
building occupants some control
of their own environment?

What is the most common and Solar control devices

visible switch?

What relies on switches to control Passive solar heating systems

incoming solar radiation on warmer
days?

What is an example of an open Seminole and crow

frame?

What is an example of a closed Pueblo and inuit

frame?

What encourages interaction Switches

between people and their
environment?

What can contribute to a feeling of A lack of switches

helplessness regarding one's
personal environment?
 Users often base their manipulations of thermal switches
What is thermal sailing? at one point on the effect that will be needed at a later
time

What is highly variable? The flow of heat through a building envelope

How does heat flow during the Heat flows from a building
winter?

How does heat flow during the Heat flows to a building

summer?

What happened during the wake of Designers placed emphasis on the thermal performance
global concerns of energy costs of building enclosures
and availability?

It is a form of energy that flows whenever there is a

What is sensible heat?
temperature difference

What is a greater concern under The effects of heat storage within materials becomes a
dynamic conditions? greater concern

What forms does heat flow? Sensible heat and latent heat

What is sensible heat flow? It results in a change in temperature

What is latent heat flow? A change in moisture content

What is total heat flow? The sum of sensible and latent heat flow

What happens when an object is at Heat flows from the hotter to the colder
a different temperature than their
surroundings?

How do buildings experience Convection, conduction, and radiation

sensible heat loss to and from the
environment?

The heat exchanged between a fluid and a solid with the

What is convection? motion of the fluid due to heating or cooling playing a
critical role in the extent of heat transfer

The heat transferred directly from molecule to molecule

What is conduction?
within or between materials
 The heat flows via electromagnetic waves from hotter
What is radiation?
surfaces to detached colder ones

How do architectural materials As insulators that retard the flow of heat or as

interact with heat? conductors that encourage the heat flow

What kind of materials are used as Dense, durable, and are able to readily diffuse heat
conductors?

The U- factor is a sensible heat property- addressing

What are important points to
heat flow resulting from a temperature difference but not
remember about U- factor?
addressing latent heat flow

What is a insulated masonry It can offer lower U- factors while preserving a masonry
system? exterior and masonry interior

How does heat flow dynamics When the lower surface of a floor is in direct contact with
change? the ground

The variance in temperature through a cross section of a

What is a thermal gradient?
construction assembly

What most you understand in order Understand ing envelope surface temperatures
to predict thermal comfort?

What happens to heat flow when it Heat flow is primarily a function of temperature
is under static conditions? difference and thermal resistance

What is heat storage a function of? The density of a material and its specific heat

From an architectural perspective, Using thin materials that must be carefully located to
how do you reduce water vapor ensure that they work as intended
flow?

What are the most common Gypsum board, concrete, brick, wood, and glass fiber
building materials?

Represents the percentage of incident light at a normal

What is thermal/ optical property? angle of incidence that passes through a particular
glazing

The higher the visible The greater the daylight transmission

transmittance?
 The rate of outdoor infiltration between a new window
What is air leakage?
and its frame measured under defined conditions

1. High transmission
What are three common types of
2. Selective transmission
low- e coatings?
3. Low transmission

A unintended influx of outdoor air due to air leakage

What is infiltration?
through the building skin

What is ventilation? A deliberate, designed introduction of outdoor air

What is the main problem of Estimating how much air will leak into a building once it is
infiltration? built

1. A design heat loss based upon "worst hour" conditions

What are the three analyses of heat 2. A design heat gain based upon worst hour conditions
flow: 3. An annualized heat flow based upon year long climate
conditions

What information is needed to 1. The rate

calculate the design heat loss 2. The area
through a building's envelope? 3. The design temperature

1. Humidity is often allowed to float during the winter

Why is design latent heat loss often
2. There is no single system or piece of equipment that
ignored?
will handle both sensible and latent heat loss