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Terrace houses are regarded by their owners as being too hot on around half the days of the year. This is the conclusion of many random household surveys conducted by final year students at Universiti PutraMalaysia. Our research at UPM aims to change the present situation, whereby thermally comfortable houses belong to the lucky few who can afford whole-house air conditioning. In 1998, we built very affordable 640sf, 3-bedroom ‘Rapidwall’ houses on the UPM campus that stay cool with one air-conditioning con

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