- Author
- Liu, S. T.
- Title
- Analysis of Construction Systems for the Thermal Classification of Residential Buildings. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 75-678, November 24, 1975,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- residential buildings; structural engineering; thermodynamic properties; classifications; behavior; data sources; performance; recommendations; time constant; houses | operation breakthrough
- Identifiers
- thermal behavior; operation breakthrough; mass per unit area
- Abstract
- This report is the result of a study to classify various kinds of residential buildings in relation to their thermal behavior. A collection of various building data and construction systems taken from the Operation breakthrough Program is presented. Thermal performance parameters of buildings, such as; U-value, thermal mass, thermal time constant, and mass per unit area were computed and analyzed. The report recommends one way in which construction systems could be classified. Since the housing systems studied represented a cross section of the conventional residential construction systems in the building industry, it is felt that a realistic classification procedure for typical residential buildings can be established and based upon the parameter: mass per unit area.