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Follow the flow

By filming the movement of coloured water through a scale model, the researchers tracked the airflow through the building.

'Our tests highlighted a problem. On hot summer days the ventilation system didn't work - there was the possibility of overheating because the air was cooler inside than outside so it wouldn't rise through the stacks.'
Andrew Woods, fluid-flow scientist, BP Institute, Cambridge



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Cool air comes in through the atrium and warm air exits through the stacks.
Lotty Gladstone and Andrew Woods, BP Institute, Cambridge

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