NON-DOMESTIC BUILDING DESIGNS INCORPORATING PASSIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT A series of design studies is being sponsored by the Department of Energy to investigate the practical application of passive solar technology in non-domestic buildings. The first set of eight studies is complete ( Campbell et al ., 1987 ), and two further sets managed by Halcrow Gilbert Associates (HGA) and Building Design Partnership are under way. This paper presents the results of HGA's first group of three studies in the light industrial building sector. These studies illustrate the opportunities to produce marketable low energy designs in which the architectural form plays the major role in generating a comfortable internal environment. The studies also show that such designs need cost no more than their conventional counterparts. A second group of studies in out-of-town office developments has started and the initial results are equally encouraging.