Capacitive effect on the heat transfer through building glazing systems

In recent years, several intensive studies have been carried out in order to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. One solution lies on whole building energy simulation that permits to enable the heat (and moisture) transfer through the building envelope and, consequently, is a way to understand how to improve the building performance. This article aims to analyze the modeling level needed to successfully evaluate the heat transfer through glazing parts of windows in such whole-building simulations as it is well-known that windows are the thermally weakest elements of the building envelope.