Hygrothermal performance of buildings - Calculation and presentation of climatic data. Calculation of a driving rain index for vertical surfaces from hourly wind and rain data

BS EN ISO 15927-3:2009

Document Status

Current

Supplement

British Standards Extra Supplement

Series

BS EN ISO

Abstract

Relates to 2 methods for estimating the amount of water that might affect a wall in any given orientation, using hourly wind and rain data, or average wind data and present weather code for rain. Provides calculations for wall indices, and looks at the roughness coefficient, the topography coefficient, obstruction factor and the wall factors.

ISBN

9780580561016

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Publisher History

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