Harnessing daylight potentials as a tool for visual and thermal comfort in residential buildings

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Harnessing daylight potentials as a tool for visual and thermal comfort in residential buildings

Architects have a responsibility to understand clearly, and sensibly plan housing units and ultimately the cities so as to achieve a sustainable whole. By so doing, these professionals cannot afford to neglect any aspect of the housing envelope, nor consider it in part or as a whole as un-important....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tukur, Rukayyatu Bashiru
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	daylighting residential architecture dwellings thermal comfort ecohouses
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14326/

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