可承受性意味着将建设和运营成本降至最低，核心挑战可能是当今的建筑设计。只有同时提高建筑质量和能源效率，同时降低成本，才能满足这两个需求。创新、省力和省时的施工技术往往依赖于重量较轻的结构部件和预制部件的利用。在这种情况下，相变材料（PCM）提供了将热质量引入现代建筑的唯一机会。这里讨论的机会与这些材料相对较轻的重量有关，与传统的建筑质量提供方式相比；并具有将这些材料引入结构的灵活性。这些限制一方面是出于美学考虑，另一方面是出于传热考虑。 最终，建筑的挑战是将这些材料与传统和新兴技术结合起来，以合理的成本建造建筑，并为其提供安全的室内舒适感。单位:双引文:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，1985年，第91卷，pt。你好，檀香山2B

Affordability, which implies minimizing both construction and operating costs, central challenge is probably the of architecture today. The twin demands can be met only by simultaneously increasing construction quality and energy efficiency, while keeping its cost down. Innovative, labor- and time-saving construction techniques tend to rely on lighter weight structural components and the utilization of premanufactured components. Under these circumstances, phase change materials (PCM's) offer about the only opportunity to introduce thermal mass into modern buildings. The opportunities discussed here have to do with the relatively light weight of these materials compared to traditional means of providing mass in buildings;and with the flexibility with which these materials may be introduced into structures. The constraints are presented by aesthetic consideration on the one hand, and heat transfer considerations on the other. Ultimately the architectural challenge is to integrate these materials with both the traditional and the emerging techniques to construct buildings and provide them with indoor comfort safely at a reasonable cost.Units: Dual