For the showroom, heat is transferred by the mechanisms of conduction, convection, and radiation.

Heat is conducted to the outer surface of the wall and windows of the showroom in winter, heat is
convected away by the cold outdoor air while being radiated to the cold surroundings. Thus, it may be
necessary to keep track of the energy interactions at the surface, and this is done by applying the
conservation of energy principle to the surface. A surface, in this case brick and glass, contains no
energy. Therefore, a surface can be viewed as a fictitious system whose energy content remains
constant during a process (just like a steady-state or steady-flow system). For the analysis of the
showroom, steady conditions are assumed, the net rate of energy transfer to a fluid in a control volume
is equal to the rate of increase in the energy of the fluid stream flowing through the control volume. In
this case, the showroom is the control volume.
Under steady conditions, the rate of heat transfer through any section of a building of Habitat for
Humanity wall or roof can be determined by knowing the temperature indoor and outdoor air
temperatures from that a relievable weather website. The walls and roof for the Habitat for humanity
building are assumed to consist of various layers of materials. The first step in order to analyze the heat
transfer is to find the overall R-value by determining the thermal resistances of the individual
components using the thermal resistance network. The overall thermal resistance of a structure can be
determined most accurately in a lab by actually assembling the unit and testing it as a whole, but this
approach is usually very time consuming and expensive, we only want to keep things simple due to
economical and time constrains. The analytical approach described for this paper is fast and
straightforward, and we expect that the results will be in good agreement with the real life values.
Now, let us start by analyzing the brick wall, a typical New England wall will be assumed as shown in the
following figure.













Figure 1. Show room are assumed to be masonry cavity wall with different layers as shown in this
figure.
After making some assumptions of the construction of the wall as shown in figure 1, we proceed to
make a table with the different R- values:
Table. 1. R-values for each section of the existing wall








After the R-values were found for each material, we can proceed to find the overall U values for the wall
in the building
Between furring At furring
Total unit thermal resistance of each section, R 6.25 4.28
The U-factor of each section, U = 1/R, in Btu/h.ft
2
.F 0.160 0.234
Area fraction of each section, f
area
0.80 0.20
Overall U-factor, U = f
area,i
U
i
= 0.800.160+0.200.234 0.175 Btu/h.ft
2
.F
Overall unit thermal resistance, R = 1/U 5.72 h.ft
2
.F/Btu

After this calculations, we start by calculating the heat lost of each room. We will start by showing how
he calculations were made for one of the walls of the showroom and the results for the other walls will
be summarized on the table of results. The first step is to calculate the area of the wall:
R-value, m
2
.C/W
Construction
Between
furring
At furring
1. Outside surface, 24 km/h 0.030 0.030
2. Face brick, 100 mm 0.12 0.12
3. Air space, 90-mm, nonreflective 0.16 0.16
4. Concrete block, lightweight, 100-
mm
0.27 0.27
5a. Air space, 20 mm, nonreflective
5b. Vertical ferring, 20 mm thick
0.17
---
---
0.94
6. Gypsum wallboard, 13 0.079 0.079
7. Inside surface, still air 0.12 0.12

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Then, we are going to find the resistance inside the wall

((

)(

)

The R
wall
was already found to be 5.72 h.ft
2
.F/Btu, however we have to convert it into the unit area for
this this wall which is

. Thus, we obtain that R

wall
= 0.01664
Then, we found the resistance of outside

((

)(

)

Therefore the R total without the windows will be

Then, we find the thermal resistances through the wall with windows:
A
windows
= 4 (3*5) = 60ft
2

A
totall
-

A
windows
A
wall =
343.85ft
2
- 60ft
2
= 283.85 ft
2

R
total
= R
i+
R
eqv+
R
o
= 0.002918
Then, we can find Q using the resistant values from the previous calculations: