Measures to protect against overheating in summer in Central Europe
Measures to protect against overheating in summer can be summarized as follows:
- Design with appropriate sizes of window; in particular, the windows facing east and west should be kept rather small, otherwise the low sun in summer heats up the rooms on the east and west too much.
- Considerable building mass: the materials in the 5 to 10 cm closest to the indoor walls are effective here.
- Ventilation at night: reducing the indoor air temperature by ventilating at night, of the order of a threefold to fivefold air change.
- Shading against insolation.