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Air conditioning – Its architectural, structural and client relationship

W.C. Pyle (Partner of Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley, Consulting Engineers in building services)

Structural Survey

ISSN: 0263-080X

Article publication date: 1 January 1986

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Abstract

The first question is why provide comfort air‐conditioning (AC) at all? In considerations of whether or not to adopt AC, a point to remember constantly is that only AC can provide effective cooling in the summer period in the UK, whereas, by contrast, the provision of ventilation, either by natural or mechanical means, and other palliative measures, such as the introduction of solar control glazing, blinds, etc, can do no more than relieve the degree of over‐heating, at best and if at all.

Citation

Pyle, W.C. (1986), "Air conditioning – Its architectural, structural and client relationship", Structural Survey, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006223

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1986, MCB UP Limited

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