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Energy Procedia 62 ( 2014 ) 309 – 317

6th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB-14
An overview on solar shading systems for buildings
Laura Belliaa, Concetta Marinoa, Francesco Minichielloa1, Alessia Pedacea

a Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, hio 80, Napoli 80125, IT
Abstract
In recent years, different types of solar shading devices have been proposed, depending on building orientation, location,
window characteristics, etc.. They can contribute to improve or worsen building thermal and lighting performances both from an
energy fort point of view.
The present paper reports a critical analysis of some studies that investigate shading devices' effects on building thermal and/or
lighting performances. This article points out the difficulty paring the different results given the lack of uniformity
between the studies, since they analysed buildings with different characteristics, locations and using various indices. Therefore a
protocol to carry out this type of studies should be developed in order to allow parison of the different research
investigations performed all over the world. Moreover, this paper shows that fort, economic and environmental
aspects related to the use of shading devices were rarely a