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Cooling load for various Building based on rules-of-thumb - Pankaj Garg - 06-02-2019

Cooling load for various Building based on rules-of-thumb
(Croome and Roberts, 1981)
Sl.no   Application   Required cooling   load (TR) for 1000 ft2 of floor area  
1.   Office buildings:

•   External zones   25% glass: 3.5 TR
  
  
•   50% glass: 4.5 TR
  
  
•   75% glass: 5.0 TR
  
  
•   Internal zones   2.8 TR  
  

2.   Computer rooms   6.0 – 12.0 TR  
3.   Hotels

•   Bedrooms
  
  
•   Single room:  0.6 TR per room
  
  
•   Double room:   1.0 TR per room
  
  
•    Restaurants   5.0 – 9.0 TR  
  

4.   Department stores

•   Basement & ground floors   4.5 – 5.0 TR
  
  
•   Upper floors   3.5 – 4.5 TR  
  

5.   Shops   5.0 TR  
6.   Banks   4.5 – 5.5 TR  
7.   Theatres & Auditoriums   0.07 TR per seat  
The average cooling load in W® / m2 of air conditioned floor area are shown below for thirty different configuration of multi-storey office . The values have been computed for

• 1000m2 square floor
  
  
• 50% glazing
  
  
• Solar shading factor of 0.425
  
  
• Population density = 10m2 /person
  
  
• Electric load = 32 W / m2
  
  
• Outside air = 5 L / s. per person
  
  
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