Energy Conservation in Houses. A Technical Press Day Report on the Results of the Low Energy Experimental House Project in Garsfontein, Pretoria

摘要

The low energy experimental house project demonstrated that a home constructed from traditional materials, by traditional methods, maintains an acceptable indoor thermal environment with low levels of energy utilization, and evaluated the long term cost benefits of different energy saving options. Both the experimental and the demonstration aspects necessitated the use of full scale houses. Two such houses were built in Pretoria, one of which was to serve as a control. They were both typical well designed middle income homes, but the low energy house embodied a number of energy saving design features as well as an air based space and water heating solar system. The floor plans of both houses were similar and that of the low energy house is presented.