Invention: Creating new solutions.Approaching a problem from first principles often throws up ideas that are not in manufacture. It is one of the pleasures of our job to generate new designs for products and systems to meet a particular brief or ambition. RELATED ARTICLE: The McClintock Building, Granta Park, Cambridgeshire. This system turns a raised office computer floor into a heating element Noun 1. heating element - the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat bar - a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" The floor tiles rest on flat heating elements in the floor cavity. The heat is conducted through the metal casings of the tiles to the floor surface. The system can also be used for cooling. Kuwait Market. Evaporative cooling Evaporative cooling is a physical phenomenon in which evaporation of a liquid, typically into surrounding air, cools an object or a liquid in contact with it. Latent heat describes the amount of heat that is needed to evaporate the liquid; this heat comes from the liquid itself and is well understood in dry climates. However, very humid hu·mid adj. Containing or characterized by a high amount of water or water vapor: humid air; a humid evening. See Synonyms at wet. air, albeit cooler, can be equally unpleasant. For this Friday Market in Kuwait, hot dry external air is humidified with jets of atomized water, and cooled to near wet bulb temperature. The cool damp air is contained above a light fabric velum velum /ve·lum/ (ve´lum) pl. ve´la [L.] a covering structure or veil.ve´lar velum interpo´situm ce´rebri membranous roof of the third ventricle. across the ceiling and does not cross into the occupied zone. The space below is cooled by radiation and convection from the underside of the fabric. The patch of sun lights the market below and creates a plume of hot air that is drawn out by its own buoyancy buoyancy (boi`ənsē, b  `yən–), upward force exerted by a fluid on any body immersed in it. Buoyant force can be explained in terms of Archimedes' principle. through the roof light. Drawing: Gabriel Tang.
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