Browsing Unitec Research Committee Reports by Subject "120202 Building Science and Techniques"
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Modelling and monitoring the Unitec standard house to improve sustainability and indoor environmental quality
(2012)This project takes a two-pronged approach to investigate issues around the thermal performance and internal environment of New Zealand housing. The first stage of measuring has been completed and the BIM model successfully ... -
Modelling and monitoring the Unitec standard house to improve sustainability and indoor environmental quality.
(2011)A testing facility has been established on the Unitec campus which allows monitoring of temperatures and humidity levels in a standard 3-bedroom house, operating as a control, to compare with the performance a second house ... -
Passive improvements to address summertime overheating in the Unitec standard house
(2012)Results from a previously funded project, monitoring space temperatures in a house constructed by students, indicated that the roof space achieved extremely high temperatures. It was hypothesised that the high roof space ... -
Unitec Research Houses
(2013)Internationally there is a move to more airtight buildings as a means of conserving energy. Air tightness is a measure of possible infiltration through the building envelope and is often confused with ventilation within ...