Overheating risk and cooling demand in residential buildings: performance prediction and improvement using a prescriptive approach

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Issue		MATEC Web Conf. Volume 282, 2019 4^th Central European Symposium on Building Physics (CESBP 2019)


Article Number		02019
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Regular Papers
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201928202019
Published online		06 September 2019

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