Technology: Thermo-Active Building Systems: operational experience practice report

Thermo-active building systems (TABS) have – since their implementation in initial projects in the 1980s in Switzerland – become established as innovative systems for surface heating and cooling with significant economical and ecological potential. In 2007 in Germany alone about 845,000 m2 of surfaces with thermal activation capacity have been newly installed, while cooling ceilings and concrete core activation roughly...