- Author
- Burch, D. M. | Licitra, B. A.
- Title
- Effect of Wall Mass on the Annual Space Heating and Cooling Loads of Residences.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Proceedings of International Congress of Building Energy Management (3rd), ICBEM '87, September 28-October 2, 1987, Lausanne, Switzerland, 248-255 p., 1987
- Keywords
- walls; space heating; residential buildings; insulation; computer programming; climate; wood construction; temperature; reprints
- Identifiers
- tarp computer programming
- Abstract
- The space heating and cooling loads for a house containing partition walls and interior furnishings is simulated using a computer program called TARP. Separate computer runs are carried out for the following wall constructions: insulated wood frame: insulated masonry with mass on the exterior; and insulated masonry with insulations sandwiched between interior and exterior mass. The reductions in annual space heating and cooling loads achieved in the houses with masonry wall construction compared to identical houses with lightweight wood-frame wall construction are computed for five climates.