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Taking the brief: The great glass house, National Botanic Garden of Wales.


An environmental engineer contributes to the design of the built form to optimize optimize - optimisation  its performance as a climatic modifier (programming) modifier - An operation that alters the state of an object. Modifiers often have names that begin with "set" and corresponding selector functions whose names begin with "get". . The first part of this is to understand and develop the brief. The levels of light, heat, humidity humidity, moisture content of the atmosphere, a primary element of climate. Humidity measurements include absolute humidity, the mass of water vapor per unit volume of natural air; relative humidity (usually meant when the term humidity , etc, affect the well-being of plants and people alike. The size of the allowable envelope for these environmental variables greatly affects the design of the building, and the amount of energy it uses.

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Publication:The Architectural Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUW
Date:Apr 1, 2002
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