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  • Effective Daylighting with High-Performance Facades

    Emerging Design Practices

    by Kyle Konis, Stephen Selkowitz ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book explores advanced building-facade daylighting design practices based on diverse energy and human-factor performance metrics. It also defines effective daylighting by rethinking the simplified approach to glazing and facade systems to incorporate the local climate and the needs of building occupants as critical drivers of building performance, design solutions and technological innovation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Evolutionary Optimisation of Façade Design

    A New Approach for the Design of Building Envelopes

    by Giovanni Zemella, Andrea Faraguna ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Optimization techniques offer immense potential for the improvement of performance-driven design, since they allow the adoption of an holistic approach. This can lead to great advantages: optimal design solutions can be properly identified only if all criteria are considered at the same time, rather than separately. There are two barriers which obstruct optimization from being applied to building ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Embodied Carbon in Buildings

    Measurement, Management, and Mitigation

    Edited by Francesco Pomponi, Catherine De Wolf, Alice Moncaster ...
    This book provides a single-source reference for whole life embodied impacts of buildings. The comprehensive and persuasive text, written by over 50 invited experts from across the world, offers an indispensable resource both to newcomers and to established practitioners in the field. Ultimately it provides a persuasive argument as to why embodied impacts are an essential aspect of sustainable ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Nearly Zero Energy Building Refurbishment

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Fernando Pacheco Torgal, Marina Mistretta, Claes G. Granqvist, Luisa F. Cabeza, Artūras Kaklauskas ...
    The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be “nearly zero energy” (and even sooner for public buildings – by the end of 2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the challenges ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Cost Optimal and Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB)

    Definitions, Calculation Principles and Case Studies

    Edited by Jarek Kurnitski ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Cost optimal and nearly zero energy performance levels are principles initiated by the European Union’s (EU) Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which was recast in 2010. These will be major drivers in the construction sector in the next few years, because all new buildings in the EU from 2021 onwards are expected to be nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB).This book introduces the technical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030

    Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficient Buildings

    by Giuliana Iannaccone, Marco Imperadori, Gabriele Masera ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book aims to provide a basis for design and construction of resource-efficient buildings. The main concepts follow the vision of a European Sustainable Building as defined in the 2-years Smart-ECO research project funded by European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program. The focus is concentrated on innovations enabling the building sector to meet the requirements originating from the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Mass Retrofitting of an Energy Efficient—Low Carbon Zone

    by Mark Deakin, Fiona Campbell, Alasdair Reid, Joel Orsinger ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into the strategic value of mass retrofits in the residential property sector through a detailed case study analysis of the ‘Hackbridge project’, this book uses this development to broaden understanding of how planners may perform urban regeneration in accordance with a centralized plan.This book demonstrates how urban morphology matters, not only with respect to either ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings

    Design and Strategy

    by Guedi Capeluto, Carlos Ernesto Ochoa ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of building envelopes.Readers will find essential information on the core principles involved in designing, calculating and organizing intelligent ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • House Rating Schemes

    From Energy to Comfort Base

    by Maria Kordjamshidi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    "House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Greening Airports

    Advanced Technology and Operations

    by Milan Janić ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system – airports, air traffic control, and airlines – that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Building Refurbishment for Energy Performance

    A Global Approach

    Edited by Anna Magrini ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In Europe, the building sector accounts for 40% of energy consumption which has a strong influence on greenhouse gas emissions. The book deals with efficient methodologies aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector. This includes analyses of the building envelopes, the heating systems, the use of solar energy and the assessment of the environmental and energy sustainability of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses

    by Miroslav Premrov, Vesna Žegarac Leskovar ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book discusses combining timber and glass, two eco materials, with a view to developing an optimal contemporary energy-efficient house with an attractive design. Furthermore, the book connects an architectural design approach with structural research to show the possibilities of stabilizing the building with an increased size of the glazing.Research results where the glazing is considered as a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD