Addressing overheating due to solar gain is increasingly a big problem for building designers, and is now also a statutory requirement.

OBD/OBES/Hevacomp is well placed to provide an analytical design tool that provides quick feedback to the facade designer and energy modelers. Embedding this aspect of green design into the design process has big and lasting productivity advantages; and will avert a lot of repetitious work throughout the building life cycle.

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