Material Aspect of Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort in Buildings
Authors
Radivojević, AnaĐukanović, Ljiljana

Contributors
Konstantinou, ThaleiaĆuković Ignjatović, Nataša

Zbašnik-Senegačnik, Martina
Book part (Published version)
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Modern design and construction strives to establish an appropriate relationship between
three characteristic poles: man – the user, the building, and the environment. This chapter
seeks to highlight this problem by considering the relevant characteristics of the building’s
thermal envelope, i.e. the impact that the choice of materials has on the behaviour of the
building as a whole. Today, we are intrigued by the behaviour of a building as a system,
mostly through the prism of the amount of energy it consumes during its existence.
On the one hand, this leads us to the need for adequate knowledge of the basic principles
of building physics, and on the other, to the awareness of the relevant properties of
the materials that we use in the construction process, in order to meet the comfort
requirements of the user. Although this chapter emphasises the problem of meeting the
thermal comfort requirements, in the example of the review and analysis of characteristic
types of residen...tial buildings in the Belgrade area, the scope of meeting the overall comfort
requirements has been considered, as well as the interdependence that exists between
different types of comfort (thermal, indoor air, sound, and light).
Keywords:
parameters and comfort conditions / buildings’ behaviour / heat and mass flow / thermal insulation and thermal mass / vapour permeabilitySource:
Energy: resources and building performance, 2018, 61-86Publisher:
- Delft : TU Delft Open
Projects:
- Erasmus+ project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS)