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This
Annex 31 glossary has been designed to improve communications
amongst international groups addressing the environmental
performance of buildings.
The glossary emerged as a result of ongoing communications difficulties
experienced within the IEA Annex 31.Academics and researchers
in 14 countries needed to standardise the many specialised terms
used for describing building performance. Often the existing
literature used different English terms interchangeably.Varying
translations compounded this problem.
The solution was to carefully review the use of all terminology,
with special reference to terms used in international standards,
and then to translate the English terms for other languages commonly
used within the Annex.
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