"The solar-chimney that has been installed at the new state-of-the-art Mentone Reserve Pavilion not only allows us to harness clean green energy to heat and cool the building, helping Council achieve its environmental goals, but it also has the potential ...
Modeling demonstrated that the exclusively-designed solar chimney dramatically boosts the amount of time required by people to escape from the new building in the event of a fire—increasing the safe evacuation time from around two minutes to more than 14 minutes....