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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Heating, lighting, ventilation
In recent years, heat pumps have emerged as a promising new form of
technology with a relatively low environmental impact. Moreover,
they have presented householders with an opportunity to reduce
their heating bills. Heat pumps can heat a building by 'pumping'
heat from either the ground or the air outside: an intriguing
process which utilizes principles that are somewhat analogous to
those employed in the domestic refrigerator. Armed with the
practical information contained in these pages, homeowners will
have the necessary knowledge to take advantage of this potentially
low-carbon technology to heat their properties. Now in an updated
new edition, Heat Pumps for the Home describes what a heat pump is,
how it works, the different methods of pumping heat and the
importance of an appropriate and well-planned installation. It also
provides you with the information that you need in order to make up
your own mind about whether a heat pump might be appropriate to
your own circumstances, and also demonstrates what you need to do
to in order to make the system work efficiently.
Building Environmental Control Systems Illustrated provides
students with an easy-to-use and highly visual guide to building
environmental control systems. By coupling diagrams, drawings, and
pictures with concise text, the book offers readers a digestible
and simplified way to learn about cutting-edge technologies,
standards, and tools within the discipline. Opening chapters
explore thermodynamics, comfort, and climate; heat transfer; sun
and shading; and passive heating and passive cooling. In additional
chapters, students learn about light and lighting; heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC); electricity and
electrical systems; water and plumbing systems; and sound and
architectural acoustics. Closing chapters address vertical
transportation and fire safety/fire protection. Throughout the
text, theoretical considerations are accompanied by real-world
examples that help students connect key concepts with practice. The
text also features end-of-chapter review problems and an appendix
that contains the solutions to all of the review problems.
Presenting students with an accessible and dynamic approach to the
subject matter, Building Environmental Control Systems Illustrated
is an ideal resource for courses and programs in architecture.
This book discusses essential strategies and approaches to creating
mentally restorative environments for highly stressed and depressed
workers at sweatshop factories. Drawing on the Foxconn factory in
Longhua, China and an adjacent urban village as a sample site for
research and design practice, the book employs a bottom-up and
participatory process. The content is divided into two main parts,
the first of which investigates economic, cultural, human rights,
and environmental issues related to the electronic industry and
urban village, providing in-depth research on various aspects,
especially the working and living conditions for Foxconn workers.
Based on these findings, the second part highlights potential
landscape designs to address a range of issues, locations, and
scales. The book's goals are to provide a set of original methods
for research and design practice in a complex social and economic
context, and to raise awareness regarding the health, dignity and
freedom of millions of workers.
* A broad range of disciplines--energy conservation and air quality issues, construction and design, and the manufacture of temperature-sensitive products and materials--is covered in this comprehensive handbook
* Provide essential, up-to-date HVAC data, codes, standards, and guidelines, all conveniently located in one volume
* A definitive reference source on the design, selection and operation of A/C and refrigeration systems
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt baukonstruktive Loesungen fur eine
zukunftsfahige Gebaudeertuchtigung vor dem Hintergrund des
Klimawandels. Behandelt werden die klimatischen Einwirkungen
Sommerhitze, UEberflutung, Starkregen, Hagel, Wind und Schnee.
Deren Veranderungen infolge des Klimawandels beeinflussen die
Verletzbarkeit bestehender Wohngebaude und Nichtwohngebaude. Auf
Grundlage objektiver Analysemethoden werden die Auswirkungen des
Klimawandels auf Bestandsgebaude beschrieben und detaillierte
baukonstruktive Anpassungsmassnahmen erlautert.
This book highlights key recent developments in air conditioning
technologies for cooling and dehumidification with the specific
objectives to improve energy efficiency and to minimize
environmental impact. Today, air conditioning, comprising cooling
and dehumidification, is a necessity in commercial and residential
buildings and even in many industrial processes. This book provides
key update on recent developments in air conditioning systems,
cooling cycles and innovative cooling/dehumidification
technologies. Key technologies related to cooling include
heat-driven absorption and adsorption cooling and water-based dew
point evaporative cooling. Technologies connected with
dehumidification involve new generations of adsorbent-desiccant
dehumidifiers, liquid-based desiccants and membranes that sieve out
water vapor from air. Losses in cooling cycles and thermo-economic
analysis for a sustainable economy are also judiciously documented.
This book includes the most recent outcomes from research and
professional practice in the ventilative cooling field, gathered by
the selected panel of authors. It provides essential contents to
face and reduce the rise of space cooling and ventilation energy
uses in buildings by alternative ventilation and cooling solutions.
The book is organised into three parts which include a detailed
description of ventilative cooling boundaries and implications
(working principles, KPIs, standards, comfort models, control
techniques) and of principal techniques (night ventilation,
controlled natural ventilation, hybrid solutions, PCM and mass
activation, evaporative cooling, earth-to-air heat exchangers)
along with an updated analysis of the background to the topic.
Furthermore, the last part of the book defines a unique practical
and theoretical framework to include ventilative cooling solutions
in different building typologies along with their principal
implications.
The book introduces the basic concepts of the finite element method
in the static and dynamic analysis of beam, plate, shell and solid
structures, discussing how the method works, the characteristics of
a finite element approximation and how to avoid the pitfalls of
finite element modeling. Presenting the finite element theory as
simply as possible, the book allows readers to gain the knowledge
required when applying powerful FEA software tools. Further, it
describes modeling procedures, especially for reinforced concrete
structures, as well as structural dynamics methods, with a
particular focus on the seismic analysis of buildings, and explores
the modeling of dynamic systems. Featuring numerous illustrative
examples, the book allows readers to easily grasp the fundamentals
of the finite element theory and to apply the finite element method
proficiently.
People who work in an office spend at least a third of their
lifetime in these spaces. The planning of office and administration
buildings can therefore contribute a great deal to the satisfaction
and well-being of future users. The book looks at the
health-relevant factors that affect people in office and
administration buildings and therefore deserve special attention in
the planning process. In doing so, the authors are guided by a
concept of health as defined by the World Health Organization:
Accordingly, health encompasses mental as well as social and
physical well-being and thus goes far beyond the factors laid down
in legal norms and guidelines. In this volume, architects and
designers, physicians and ergonomists deal with all aspects of
interior design seen from a health perspective: What role does
colour design play, what significance do light, air and noise have?
What does a demand-oriented building technology look like and how
is the office furniture adequately designed? Which medical and
hygienic aspects have to be considered? How can offices be designed
in terms of work-life balance and how will the office change in the
course of digitalisation? The book serves as a guideline that can
be applied chapter by chapter in the planning of health-promoting
office spaces - depending on the interests of the reader. Problems
that arise are discussed using examples, and checklists help you
with planning and implementation. The guide is aimed at building
owners, architects, engineers, but also at lawyers, psychologists
and doctors as well as university members in the field of economics
and engineering.
This book is the result of recent research that deals with the
built environment and innovative materials, carried out by
specialists working in universities and centers of research in
different professional fields architecture, engineering, physics
and in an area that that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the
Persian Gulf, and from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East.
This book takes the necessity of re-shaping the concept of building
design in order to transform buildings from large scale energy
consumers to energy savers and producers into consideration. The
book is organized in two parts: theory and case studies. For the
theoretical part, we chose from the wide range of sources that
provide energy efficient materials and systems the two that seem to
be endless: the sun and vegetation. Their use in building products
represents a tool for specialists in the architectural design
concept. The case-studies presented analyze different architectural
programs, in different climates, from new buildings to
rehabilitation approaches and from residential architecture to
hospitals and sports arenas; each case emphasizes the
interdisciplinarity of the building design activity in order to
help readers gain a better understanding of the complex approach
needed for energy efficient building design
The Intuitive Guide to Energy Efficiency and Building Improvements
Energy Audits and Improvements for Commercial Buildings provides a
comprehensive guide to delivering deep and measurable energy
savings and carbon emission reductions in buildings. Author Ian M.
Shapiro has prepared, supervised, and reviewed over 1,000 energy
audits in all types of commercial facilities, and led energy
improvement projects for many more. In this book, he merges
real-world experience with the latest standards and practices to
help energy managers and energy auditors transform energy use in
the buildings they serve, and indeed to transform their buildings.
* Set and reach energy reduction goals, carbon reduction goals, and
sustainability goals * Dramatically improve efficiency of heating,
cooling, lighting, ventilation, water and other building systems *
Include the building envelope as a major factor in energy use and
improvements * Use the latest tools for more thorough analysis and
reporting, while avoiding common mistakes * Get up to date on
current improvements and best practices, including management of
energy improvements, from single buildings to large building
portfolios, as well as government and utility programs Photographs
and drawings throughout illustrate essential procedures and
improvement opportunities. For any professional interested in
efficient commercial buildings large and small, Energy Audits and
Improvements for Commercial Buildings provides an accessible,
complete, improvement-focused reference.
This book is the result of recent research that deals with the
built environment and innovative materials, carried out by
specialists working in universities and centers of research in
different professional fields architecture, engineering, physics
and in an area that that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the
Persian Gulf, and from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East.
This book takes the necessity of re-shaping the concept of building
design in order to transform buildings from large scale energy
consumers to energy savers and producers into consideration. The
book is organized in two parts: theory and case studies. For the
theoretical part, we chose from the wide range of sources that
provide energy efficient materials and systems the two that seem to
be endless: the sun and vegetation. Their use in building products
represents a tool for specialists in the architectural design
concept. The case-studies presented analyze different architectural
programs, in different climates, from new buildings to
rehabilitation approaches and from residential architecture to
hospitals and sports arenas; each case emphasizes the
interdisciplinarity of the building design activity in order to
help readers gain a better understanding of the complex approach
needed for energy efficient building design
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