Thermal comfort of a new university building in Luxembourg with passive cooling

peer reviewed ; The new Luxembourgish university buildings should comply with a low energy standard, which was defined for typical offices and smaller lecture rooms by a thermal end-energy lower than 14 kWh/m3a and an electricity use for HVAC and lighting of max. 6 kWh/m3a. Consequently it was necessary to find ways to avoid the need for mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning. The heat consumption was minimized by an air-tight and well insulated building envelope. A difficulty was posed by special outside façade elements which were set-up as a grid over the complete outer surface as an ar... Mehr ...