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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2012.249</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2012.249</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Developing the Low-Carbon Modular Flat Pack Buildings Full Scale Testing</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Khalifa</surname><given-names>Moataz</given-names></name>
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        <email>laxmk3@nottingham.ac.uk</email>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Mempouo</surname><given-names>Blaise</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Riffat</surname><given-names>Saffa</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
      </contrib>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Omer</surname><given-names>Siddig</given-names></name>
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      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">Institute of Sustainable Energy Technology, Department Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK</aff>
    </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>02</day><month>09</month><year>2012</year></pub-date>
      <volume>11</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-1-995850-02-3</isbn>
      <fpage>2360</fpage>
      <lpage>2367</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2012.249"/>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received"><string-date>2 September 2012</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2012 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>The Low Carbon Futures Buildings are one of the key roles of reducing CO2 and obtain comfortable healthy living building spaces; in addition with the spread of the lightweight construction buildings the problem of overheating has been increased. This Paper is presenting the work on developing a unique wall panels for low/zero carbon Flat Pack buildings. A full scale test was presenting the effect of using a unique gypsum board with special thermal material to control the heat inside building spaces. In this experiment a Flat Pack unit has been divided in to two rooms, one of the rooms has been attached with the special gypsum boards. The results have shown that the difference between the both sides of the Flat Pack rooms between 3ºC to 5ºC depend on the outside temperature, wall location and time of the day. Thus, this extra layer will help to increase time lag and absorbing any extra heat which means controlling the temperature inside spaces to be the consequence of reduce the amount of CO2 by cutting the energy consumption.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Flat pack buildings</kwd>
        <kwd>overheating</kwd>
        <kwd>Gypsum board</kwd>
        <kwd>Comfortable spaces</kwd>
        <kwd>Phase Change Materials (PCMs)</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
      <conference>
        <conf-date>2 to 5 September 2012</conf-date>
        <conf-name>11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2012</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>11</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Vancouver, Canada</conf-loc>
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