Heat stress pattern in conditioned office buildings with shallow plan forms in Metropolitan Colombo

U Rajapaksha - Buildings, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper critically evaluates indoor overheating of multilevel office buildings in Colombo—
a tropical warm humid city. The work questions the building morphological characteristics on …

[PDF][PDF] A modelling appraisal of design standards in retrofitting a high-rise office building in Brisbane

I Rajapaksha, R Hyde… - 44th Annual Conference …, 2010 - archscience.org
This paper reports the testing of appropriate design standards to optimize energy
performance in the pursuit of building retrofits. The impact of whole-building" best" and" …

Design Solution Sets for Bioclimatic Retrofit

U Rajapaksha, R Hyde… - Sustainable Retrofitting of …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Buildings and building-related activities are responsible for more than 40 per cent of global
energy demand in the form of electricity and therefore carbon dioxide emissions (IPCC …

Richard Hyde and

I Rajapaksha - Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings …, 2015 - books.google.com
More than half of the central business district (CBD) building stock in Australian cities
comprises ageing office blocks. The majority of this existing commercial high-rise building …

An Evidence-Based Design (EBD) Approach to Select Retrofitting Strategies: What sources of evidence can be used to select retrofitting strategies?

R Hyde, I Rajapaksha - Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
More than half of the central business district (CBD) building stock in Australian cities
comprises ageing office blocks. The majority of this existing commercial high-rise building …

Evaluating Typologies of Commercial Architecture for Retrofitting: What are the design and technical characteristics of existing commercial buildings built in the recent …

M Nurman - Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter aims to investigate commercial high-rise building as a type, focusing solely on
office buildings and the typological characteristics that distinguish types of office building. It …

[PDF][PDF] A critique on on-going retrofit approaches to existing high mass historic building forms with heat sink capacity

U Rajapaksha, S Rodrigo, I Rajapaksha - 2015 - anzasca.net
The research presents a critique on unrealized heat sink capacity of Colombo's historic
British period buildings. The work discusses how on-going inappropriate retrofitting …

[CITATION][C] 89 An Evidence-Based Design (EBD) Approach to Select Retrofitting Strategies: What sources of evidence can be used to select retrofitting strategies?

R Hyde, I Rajapaksha - … Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings: Warm Climates - Routledge