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A. Mahdavi, C. Pröglhöf:
"Predicting the deployment level of manually operated window shades in office buildings";
Talk: 1st Central European Symposium on Building Physics, Krakau, Polen; 09-13-2010 - 09-15-2010; in: "Proceedings of the 1st Central European Symposium on Building Physics", D Gawin, T. Kisilewicz (ed.); Technical University of Lodz, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Poland, (2010), ISBN: 978-83-7283-367-9; 4 pages.

The present paper focuses on the prediction of the resultant deployment level of manually operated
window shades in office buildings. Thereby, long-term empirical observations of the shade deployment
levels for a number of office buildings in Austria provided the underlying empirical basis for the model development.
The resulting model predicts thus the mean shades deployment level (in percent) as a function of
facade orientation and the incident global (vertical) irradiance on the facade. A mathematical formulation of
this dependency model was derived. The predictions based on this model were shown to compare well with
the empirical findings.

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