Farm building design and animal heat losses

Abstract

Studying heat emission from livestock is not a common feature of building research work. Yet knowledge of animal heat losses is as important to designing farm buildings as knowledge of human thermal response is to the design of buildings for people. This thermotechnical work has become highly specialised in Denmark, leading to published heat losses for cattle, pigs and poultry, explained here by a research engineer at the Danish Building Research Institute's Farm Buildings Section.