Heating Cooling Lighting : Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture

Description

Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture, 5th Edition

The essential guide to environmental control systems in building design
For over 25 years Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture has provided architects and design professionals the knowledge and tools required to design a sustainable built environment at the schematic design stage. This Fifth Edition offers cutting-edge research in the field of sustainable architecture and design and has been completely restructured based on net zero design strategies. Reflecting the latest developments in codes, standards, and rating systems for energy efficiency, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture includes three new chapters:
– Retrofits: Best practices for efficient energy optimization in existing buildings
– Integrated Design: Strategies for synergizing passive and active design
– Design Tools: How to utilize the best tools to benchmark a building’s sustainability and net zero potential
Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture is a go-to resource for practicing professionals and students in the fields of environmental systems technology or design, environmental design systems, construction technology, and sustainability technology.

CONTENTS

• Foreword to The Fifth Edition xiii / Edward Mazria
• Foreword to The First Edition xv / James Marston Fitch
• Preface xvii, Acknowledgements xix
• 1 Background: Architecture In A Warming World
• 2 Climate Change: The Key Sustainability Issue
• 3 Basic Principles: The Physics Of Heat Flow For Heating And Cooling Buildings
• 4 Climate: Its Significant Impact On Buildings
• 5 Psychometrics: Thermal Comfort
• 6 Solar Geometry: The Most Powerful Element Of Design
• 7 Passive Heating Systems: The Solar Potential Of Natural Heating
• 8 Solar Rejection: Shading and Light Colors
• 9 Passive Cooling: Natural Cooling, Raising the Comfort Zone, And Heat Avoidance
• 10 Site Analysis: Orientation, Landscape and Context In Net-Zero Design
• 11 Light: Color, Vision, and Perception
• 12 Daylighting: Architectural Control for Natural Beauty, Comfort, and Energy Reduction
• 13 The Thermal Envelope: Keeping Warm and Staying Cool
• 14 Retrofits: Energy Efficiency Upgrades for Existing Buildings
• 15 Tropical Architecture: Not your Temperate Architecture
• 16 Electric Lighting: To Complement Daylight and At Night
• 17 Photovoltaics And Solar Thermal
• 18 Mechanical Equipment for Heating and Cooling
• 19 Synergies: When the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
• 20 Integrated Design Process
• 21 Codes
• 22 Checklist for Designing Net-Zero Buildings
• 23 Assessment
• 24 Digital
• Appendix A Horizontal Sun-Path Diagrams
• Appendix B Vertical Sun-Path Diagrams
• Appendix C Solar Altitude And Azimuth Angles
• Appendix D Methods for Estimating the Height of Trees, Buildings, and the Like
• Appendix E Sundials
• Appendix F Sun-Path Models
• Appendix G The Water Table For Ventilation Studies
• Appendix H Site Evaluation Tools
• Appendix I Heliodons
• Appendix J Tables Of R-Values
• Appendix K Resources
• Appendix L Conversion Factors between the Inch-Pound (I-P) System and the International System of Units (Si)
• Appendix M Appendix M: Sizing A Pv Array