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Appropriate passive design approaches for the various climatic regions in South Africa

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Jan 2013 Previous chapters, Maximising the Sun (Conradie, 2011) and SA Climate Zones and Weather Files (Conradie, 2012), gave an introduction of the current South African climatic characteristics. This chapter explores appropriate passive design ... Read more
Building information modelling (BIM)

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Feb 2009 The concept of a Building Information Model (BIM) also known as a Building Product Model (BPM) is nothing new. A short article on BIM will never cover the entire filed, because it is a particularly complex filed that is recently beginning to ... Read more
Evaluating the efficacy of solar chimneys for heating and cooling: A case study

Author: Grobler, Jan-Hendrik ; Conradie, Dirk CU ; Van Wyk, Llewellyn V Date: Mar 2019 The Department of Science and Technology (DST) together with the Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDOE) are co-funding the construction of a science centre in the village of Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape. The purpose of the science ... Read more
Hybrid design strategies for recommended indoor air quality: The case of Hillside Clinic, Beaufort West

Author: Van Reenen, Coralie A ; Van Reenen, Tobias H ; Nice, Jako A ; Motsatsi, Lorato L ; Conradie, Dirk CU ; Van Wyk, Llewellyn V ; Bhikoo, Bhikoo, J ; Kuschke, U Date: Oct 2020 The high occupancy that typically occurs in South African clinics, and the accompanying risk of airborne infection, make ventilation and thermal comfort particularly important considerations in the design. Passive (natural) ventilation offers ... Read more
Maximising the sun

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Aug 2010 South Africa is blessed with some of the best quality solar radiation in the world. In the light of this many exciting opportunities exist to utilize the sun to its full potential in the design of energy efficient buildings. Passive solar ... Read more
Performance of a solar chimney by varying design parameters

Author: Kumirai, T ; Grobler, Jan-Hendrik ; Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Aug 2015 Trombe walls and solar chimneys are not widely used or well known in South Africa. A previous Green Building Handbook article described the University of Fort Hare teaching complex in East London (Stratford, 2012) that inter alia used a trombe ... Read more
The performance of innovative building technologies in South Africa’s climatic zones

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Mar 2014 This chapter quantifies the thermal performance of a cross section of Innovative Building Technologies (IBT) in South Africa's climatic zones. An IBT in the context of this chapter means a South African Agrément certified building system, but ... Read more
Spatial analysis and modelling based on activities

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: 2010 This chapter describes the development of an agent based Computational Building Simulation (CBS) tool, termed KRONOS that is being used to support advanced research questions such as traffic safety assessment and user behaviour in buildings. ... Read more
A sultry afternoon in a naturally ventilated office during the hottest summer on record

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Oct 2016 This article is about the experience of discomfort, applicable physics and some possible corrective actions in a very hot naturally ventilated office on the CSIR campus during the hottest summer in Pretoria on record, as reported by South ... Read more
Sun and shade

Author: Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Dec 2017 South Africa is blessed with some of the best quality sunshine in the world but at the same time has some of the most intense solar radiation. There are therefore many exciting opportunities to utilize the sun to its full potential in the ... Read more
Thermal mass vs. insulation building envelope design in six climatic regions of South Africa

Author: Kumirai, T ; Conradie, Dirk CU Date: Feb 2012 This chapter aims to evaluate the impact of thermal mass and high insulation (Rvalue) building envelope on energy consumption (space heating and space cooling) in six South African major cities using a building thermal simulation programme ... Read more

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