Heat Conduction

The following is my summary of relevant parts of a wikipedia article on Heat Conduction and other bits and pieces of information. Conduction is one of the three ways in which heat can be transferred, the other ways being convection and radiation. Conduction can simply be thought of as heat transfer by “touch”, and only can [...]

Thermal Modeling of Buildings

My introduction to eCubed Building Workshop was thermal modeling of the Albany Senior High School gymnasium (ASHS). Using architects plans of the gym and the standards set out in NZS4214:2002 I had to find thermal resistance (“R”) values for each of the building elements of the gym (walls, roofs, floors). I went very slowly at first as everything was [...]