Radiant Cooling in US Office Buildings:

Towards Eliminating the Perception of Climate-Imposed Barriers

by Corina Stetiu

Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley

Degree completed in May 1997

Title page of the dissertation published as a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report

Preliminary pages containing the Abstract, Table of Contents, and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 . Introduction

Chapter 2 . Present State of Knowledge about Radiant Cooling Systems

Chapter 3 . RADCOOL - A Tool for Modeling Buildings Equipped with Radiant Cooling Systems

Chapter 4 . Radiant Cooling in Office Buildings: Design of the Modeling Project

Chapter 5 . Radiant Cooling in Office Buildings: Results of the Modeling Project

Chapter 6 . Radiant Cooling and the US Market

Chapter 7 . Future Research Directions

Appendix A . The Thermal Building Simulation Model RADCOOL

Appendix B . Energy Consumption and Peak Power Demand: Results of the Parametric Study