User:Benbehr/TABS (thermally activated building systems)

Thermally activated building systems (TABS) use the thermal mass of a building for heating and cooling purposes. The benefits of this approach is a reduction in peak cooling and heating loads, at the other hand the system can only react slowly to changes in load. Thermally activated building systems can be used both for cooling as well as heating.

Low temperature heating and high temperature cooling
TABS can be considered to provide high temperature cooling and low temperature heating. High temperature cooling means that the required temperature levels for cooling provided with TABS are generally lower then with other cooling systems. For heating this effect is reversed, thus supply temperatures can be lower for heating with TABS then for other heating solutions.

See also:

Radiant cooling

Radiant heating