Personal view: building a UK PV roof
✍ Scribed by Susan Roaf
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1062-7995
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Personal View BUILDING A UK PV ROOF
n 1992 I returned from the 3rd European Conference on Architecture in Florence, Italy, fired up with the excitement of photovoltaic (PV) applications projects around the world and the proud owner of Hannibal, the I electric Kewet El-Jet car that won the Solar Car Award at the Conference. As a lecturer in architecture at the Department of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University (UK), I wanted to teach students how to integrate photovoltaics into their buildings, so I set about building a PV roof on the south-facing roof of my new house in Oxford.
The house is a five-bedroom detached building with almost a due south aspect on the garden side. With Alan