Description
- PINPOINT brings building physics clearly into focus and enables practitioners to make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials
- May be used “on site” as a manual by architects, civil engineers, and construction planners
- High-quality edition, handsomely designed
Today, sustainable building means planning and producing structures that offer their users a high degree of comfort while only requiring a small amount of energy to operate.
This entails: a high degree of thermal comfort, a good supply of daylight, good sound insulation with respect to both external and internal sources of noise, good room acoustics, the avoidance of any problems whatsoever with condensation or mold, and such a low energy requirement that especially gentle and efficient methods can be used to meet the remaining demand.
At first glance, it might seem quite difficult to fulfill all these requirements. Taken together, the various textbooks on building physics and building automation and the large number of EN and SIA standards now in existence are more confusing than they are useful.
By contrast, this manual presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in concise and clearly organized form; makes it easy to put it into practice with the help of graphics, tables, and step-by-step instructions; illustrates it with examples; and supplements it with practical tips.
That is not to say that PINPOINT is intended to replace a textbook or standards collection. On the contrary, it is meant to help practitioners who already have a grasp of the basics make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.
CONTENTS
ENERGY IN BUILDING
- Comfort conditions for interior spaces
- Climate influence
- Basic mechanisms of heat transfer
- Stationary heat exchange
- Non-stationary heat exchange
- Energy transfer through the opaque building envelope
- Transparent elements
- Air infiltration
- Dynamic key figures for a room
- Energy Design Guide (EDG)
- Soft HVAC technology
- Terms of energy management
- Principles of energy-efficient design
- Water vapour and humidity
- Water vapour diffusion
- Design principles for construction
- Sound dimension
- Spread of sound
- Airborne and impact sound
- Design principles for noise protection
- Running time – Sound reflections
- Acoustical design
- Frequency rendition
- Design principles for acoustical planning
- Characteristic values for lighting
- Daylight factor DF
- Effect and availability of daylight
- Design principles for good daylighting
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