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Title: Impacts of Shading and Glazing Combinations on Residential Energy Use in a Hot Dry Climate
Author: NREL, 2000
File: Free Conference Paper, PDF 428 KB, 17 pages
Audience: Written for architects, designer, builders and homeowners with a technical understanding of heating and cooling loads.

Review
Technical analysis of a residential building in Tucson, Arizona. Reduction in solar heat gain through shading and glazing strategies were studied.

Issues covered include:

• effects of glazing and shading
• building geometry and shading
• building equipment operation
• windows and doors
• structure
• solar heat gain
• transmittance and reflectance
• infiltration and ventilation
• thermal performance
• cooling load
  

Detail drawings include:

• building geometry diagram

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