Talk:Eastgate Centre, Harare

flywheel effect
There is an article on the thermal flywheel effect, which my source (The Zimbabwean Review, Oct 1995) says is happening in this design, but I'm not clear which effect is meant, and that article really doesn't help! Anyone qualified, please help out! Cheers JackyR 17:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Todo
Check out Melbourne bdg, look through new external lks to improve article.

This article seems to be spending rather too much time on explaining how the air conditioning works, and less on the actual purpose of the building itself. Surely it would be wiser to move an explanation of the mechanics of the air conditioning used to another article rather than clogging up this one?


 * The introduction gives the purpose of the building as retail and office space. If think you can expand that usefully, go for it. But what's notable about this building is the design. Remove that and what would the rump article be? Would Eastgate even warrant an article?

But there is now an article on passive cooling in general, so you might like to link and move the one paragraph about that. Cheers, JackyR | Talk 20:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Temperature Swing
I noticed the odd phrase "Harare has a temperate climate despite being in the tropics, and the typical daily temperature swing is 10 or 40 °C."

Firstly, it just "reads wrong". The way it is phrased is normally only used when the two numbers are quite close. Secondly, 40 °C is a huge temperature swing... extreme even for desert areas (see diurnal temperature variation). For a temperate climate you wouldn't expect much more than about 10 °C.

And sure enough, the article originally read "typical daily temperature swing is 10 or 14 °C"... which is much more plausible. Back in January 2007, user 193.11.74.41 made this change - the only change this user has ever made - without any citation or explanation. I think it was subtle vandalism, and it's a pity it has gone undetected for so long.

I am reverting that change. 40 °C is plainly absurd.

TomH (talk) 20:20, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I believe that is the seasonal change. Ergo I think we'd need a source if you wanted to say 10...14 C
 * What does surprise me however, is that the ventilation system isn't explained.. i.e. the hot air rises through the office space in the building, drawing in new air from the glass shaded atrium -94.7.112.164 (talk) 16:59, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I added a cite for 10 to 14. It was from Arup, the building science engineers. -- Margin1522 (talk) 13:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)