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The Enviornment & Building Envelope Flashcards

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Thinking of the human body… buildings have thus in common…

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System of structure and utilities that support it.
Requires a skeleton , nerves, pumps, lungs and brain.

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Plenums

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Overhead element. Space between the ceiling and structure.

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Chases

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In between the walls

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Service Cores

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Big components. Core if the building ( think of bathrooms)

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What is M/E/P

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Mechanical systems ( heating, ventilation, and air conditioning)
Electrical (power and light)
Plumbing Systems ( fresh and waste )

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Dynamic Building Envelope include

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Operable windows, window shading devices, and insulation shutters.

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Energy Efficency

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Envelope. Distribution. Equipment. Lighting. Applicances.
Positives Rating Systems: energy star homes, EPA indoor air plus

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Indoor Environment Quality

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Bulk moisture. Radon. Pest control. HVAC. combust. Materials. Commissioning
Positive ratings: passive house institute US.

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Resource Efficiency

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Site planning. Location. Water. Materials. Waste management. Renewables.
Positive ratings: LEED. Water Sense. Certified Green Homed and Remodleing

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Restorative

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Zero energy. Captured rain water. Black water remediation. Realist free materials, air quality testing. Accessibility. Aesthetics. Mental health, sustainable business.
Positive Rating: Living Building Challenge

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USGBC stands for?

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US Green Building Council

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LEED stands for?

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Leadership in Energy and Enviornmental Design

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ASHRAE stands for ?

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The American society of heating, refrigerating and air conditioning engineers

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14
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How many certification levels are there for USGBC?

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4

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15
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4 properties of Heat Flow

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Thermal Conductivity. Thermal Bridges. Thermal Mass. Thermal Properties of Building Materials.

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U-Value

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Measure thermal resistance of other building envelope materials. Low # mean better performance. Heat loss through glass

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R-value

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Thermal resistance. Stop the transfer of heat or cold. Typically an exterior wall. They are both mathematical reciprocals

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18
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Calibrated Blower Door Test

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Hopes to find the happy balance between not letting air out but also not holding too much

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Moisture Flow

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Vapor Pressure. Vapor Retarders

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Insulation Materials

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Air Spaces and Air Barriers.
Air is the best insulator

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Passive Solar Systems have 2 elements

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A collector with south facing glazing (northern hemisphere)
Energy Storage which is usually a thermal massive materials such as a rock or water

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Direct Gain Systems

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Defenestration. Simplest passive solar home design technique. Sunlight enters the house through windows without interference and the heat collection, storage and distribution all occur within the same space.
When light reaches floors and walls, they absorb and store the solar heat.
At night the stored heat energy warms the room through convection and radiation

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Indirect Gain Systems

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Thermal storage walls. Roof ponds. Greenhouses and sunspaces. A technique by which thermal energy is stored in an area adjacent to (but not part of) the living space.

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Thermal Mass does what?

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Such a trombe wall, absorbs the suns heat energy through glazing, and slowly release it through convection and conduction

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What do we depend on buildings for?

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Sanitation, visual and accoustic environments, space and means to move, and protection from injury

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26
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What is a major concern for building placement?

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Site and orientation

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27
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What percent of total energy use do buildings account for?

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41%

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28
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______ ______ is energy that comes from naturally occurring resources

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Renewable Energy
(Such as sunlight, wind, or geothermal heat)

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29
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The use of what is an important sustainable design technique?

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Daylight

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30
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____ _____consists of the earths internal heat

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Geothermal energy

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31
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_____ is the organic matter of plants

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Biomass

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32
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What is thermal lag?

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The earth stores hear and releases it at a later time

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33
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When is the lowest daily temperature?

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Just before sunrise

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34
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Fountains, waterfalls, and trees tend to raise ____ and lower _____

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Humidity/ temperature

35
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_____ ___ _____ _____ is when the building is taken apart and it’s constituent pieces are reused

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Demolition by hand salvage

36
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Historic preservation and adaptive reuse represent the highest form of _____?

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Recycling

37
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What is an example or a dynamic building envelope?

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Tipi

38
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What are dynamic elements of the building envelope?

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Operable windows, window shading devices, and insulating shutters

39
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Rigid exterior walls serve as?

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Shear Walls tor transfer lateral wind and earthquake loads

40
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Non load bearing walls are called?

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Curtain walls

41
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_____ control thermal radiation, temperature, humidity, and airflow

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Roofs

42
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Slope usually 1/4” per foot often leading to interior drains

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Flat roof

43
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One or more slopes

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Pitched roof

44
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A single pitched slope

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Shed roof

45
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Slopes down into two directions from a central ridge, forming a triangular gable at each end

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Gable roof

46
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A pitched roof with a shallower upper slope and steeper lower slope on each side

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Gambrel roof

47
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Sloping sides like a gable roof, but ends also slope in to meet central ridge

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Hip or hipped roof

48
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Resembles a shallow hipped roof set on top of a steeper lower part

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Mansard roof

49
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Intensive, extensive, and modular block
These are all examples of?

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Green roof types

50
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What do green roofs help reduce

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the heat island effect in urban areas

51
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“is the instantaneous flow of energy at a give time”

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Power

52
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“in the context of buidlings, is power usage over time”

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Energy

53
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“is the form of heat energy that flows whenever there is a temperature difference”

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Sensible Heat

54
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“is the term for sensible heat that is used to change the state of a material, for example, evaporating water”

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Latent Heat

55
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“is the rate at which a building gains or loses heat through any portion of its enclosure under stable indoor and outdoor temperatures”

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Thermal Resistance

56
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a branch of science that deals with the relationship between heat and other forms of energy

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Thermodynamics

57
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“the tendency toward running down or disorder”

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Entropy

58
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What law is this?
“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed”

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First Law of Thermodynamics

59
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What law is this?
“expresses the tendency toward disorder as part of the normal nature of things”

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Second Law of thermodynamics

60
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The laws of thermodynamics have specific applications to?

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HVAC systems

61
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Defines thermal equilbrium. for example when 2 objects are in equilbrium the third will as well. everything in the end wants to reach the same temperature.

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Zeroth law of Thermodynamics

62
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Some parts of walls and roofs transmit heat more rapidly than others. These pieces of construction are called?

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Thermal Bridges

63
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How do you increase thermal resistance?

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by adding insulation or reflective sheets or by creating more air spaces

64
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The ability of a material to store heat is called?

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Thermal Capacity

65
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What does MRT stand for?

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Mean Radiant Temperature

66
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materials that resist the flow of water vapor through the envelope assembly are called?

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Vapor Retarders

67
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These are all considertaions for what type of design?
Orientation, Interior Plan, Slope of glazing, Shading, and Reflectors

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Passive Solar Design

68
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this system introduces solar energy directly into the interior space through ordinary fenestration.

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Direct-gain passive solar systems

69
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This system places thermal storage mass between the sun and the occupied space. Sunlight strikes the thermal mass; where it is absorbed and stored, then slowly transferred to the occupied space

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Indirect Gain systems

70
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Roof ponds are a good example of what type of system?

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indirect gain solar systems

71
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” Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”

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Sustainability

72
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_____ _____ is a holsitic approach to building design that reduces negative social, economic, and ecological impacts on the enviornment

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Sustainable Design

73
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1) waste equals food: produce everything so that, when its useful life is over, it becomes a healthy source of raw materials to produce new things
2) Respect Diversity: Design everything to respect the region, culture, and materials of a place.
3) Use solar energy: Buildings must be designed to be responsive to this non-polliting and renewable energy source

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The 3 principles to guide sustainable design
By: William McDonough and Michael Braungart

74
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The goal of ____ _____ is to produce positive enviornmental impact, leacing the world better off in terms of energy, water, and materials

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Regenerative Design

75
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_____ _____ is the energy that is used to obtain, process, fabricate, transport, and dispose of a unit of a building material

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Embodied energy

76
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the amount of energy the building uses to operate

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Energy Loads

77
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What does BREEAM stand for?

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the Building Research Establishment’s Enviornmental Assessment Method

78
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what does GBI stand for?

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Green Building Incentive

79
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the term ____ ____ refers to a voluntary standard for energy efficency in a building that reduces its ecological footprint so that it requires little energy for space heating or cooling

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Passice House

80
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Thermal Transmitance.
The rate of heat loss through glass.
lower numbers = better performance

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U-Value

81
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Thermal Resistance
the capacity of an insulating material to resist heat flow.
the higher the (?) value the greater the insulating power

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R-Value

82
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In ______ ______ building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer

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Passive Solar

83
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____ _____ heating systems use solar energy to heat a fluid – either liquid or air – and then transfer the solar heat directly to the interior space or to a storage system for later use.

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Active Solar

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