Calculating the effect of external shading on the solar heat gain coefficient of windows.

dc.centreFaculty of Design
dc.contributor.authorRajan Rawal
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T11:52:15Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T11:52:15Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractCurrent prescriptive building codes have limited ways to account for the effect of solar shading, such as overhangs and awnings, on window solar heat gains. We propose two new indicators, the adjusted Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (aSHGC) which accounts for external shading while calculating the SHGC of a window, and a weighted SHGC (SHGCw) which provides a seasonal SHGC weighted by solar intensity. We demonstrate a method to calculate these indices using existing tools combined with additional calculations. The method is demonstrated by calculating the effect of an awning on a clear double glazing in New Delhi
dc.identifier.doi10.26868/25222708.2017.769
dc.identifier.issn9.78151E+12
dc.identifier.otherFP-139-RP
dc.identifier.sourcelinkhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt2769w7wr/qt2769w7wr.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12725/27211
dc.publisherLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
dc.titleCalculating the effect of external shading on the solar heat gain coefficient of windows.
dc.typeArticle

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