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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen selkowitz”
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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

  • Building Sustainable Futures

    Design and the Built Environment

    Edited by Stephen Selkowitz, Mohammad Dastbaz, Ian Strange ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents state-of-the-art research and case studies on new approaches to the design, construction and planning of our cities. Emphasis is placed on the role of alternative and renewable energy in the development of urban infrastructures that enable sustainable futures. Reflecting the multi-faceted efforts required to successfully meet sustainability challenges, this book is a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Influences of Electric Vehicles on Power System and Key Technologies of Vehicle-to-Grid

    by Canbing Li, Yijia Cao, Yonghong Kuang, Bin Zhou ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book analyzes the influence of electric vehicles on microclimate and the indirect influence on power load from a unique perspective. It discusses different aspects of Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, including large and small-scale charging infrastructures, and describes the effect on electricity price, voltage, frequency and other key V2G technologies. It introduces various aspects of the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Fire Science and Technology 2015

    The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology

    Edited by Kazunori Harada, Ken Matsuyama, Keisuke Himoto, Yuji Nakamura, Kaoru Wakatsuki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targeting research in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects. The book contributes to a gain in advanced scientific knowledge and presents or advances new ideas in all topics in fire safety science.Two decades ago, the 1st Asia-Oceania ... Read more

    $287.99 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

  • 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

  • Road Lighting

    Fundamentals, Technology and Application

    by Wout van Bommel ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book outlines the underlying principles on which modern road lighting is based, and provides the reader with knowledge of how these principles should be applied in practice.This book offers a completely fresh approach to the subject, reflecting how the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp technology, especially in solid state light sources, and the ... Read more

    $80.09 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

  • Methanol: The Basic Chemical and Energy Feedstock of the Future

    Asinger's Vision Today

    Edited by Martin Bertau, Heribert Offermanns, Ludolf Plass, Friedrich Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Wernicke ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Methanol - The Chemical and Energy Feedstock of the Future offers a visionary yet unbiased view of methanol technology. Based on the groundbreaking 1986 publication "Methanol" by Friedrich Asinger, this book includes contributions by more than 40 experts from industry and academia. The authors and editors provide a comprehensive exposition of methanol chemistry and technology which is useful for a ... Read more

    $215.09 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