SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SERVICES

Description

Concepts for the post-fossil fuel era – Planning and operating energy-efficient building services
For sustainable operation of buildings, energy-efficient systems for heating, cooling, ventilation and the supply of power are essential. Particularly during building renovations, modifications of the building services allow great savings to be realised at relatively little expense.
The book Sustainable Building Services explains in compact, easy-to-understand form the most important system concepts and components. It documents how each of the technologies works and shows how they interact in overall concepts. The state of development of technologies of the future such as photovoltaics, heat pumps or solar climate control is also documented. The authors pay special attention to renovation measures and the optimisation of operational processes. 15 current building examples illustrate how building services are individually adjusted to different uses, building sizes and climate zones. The book thus provides both architects and specialist engineers with an important knowledge base for planning energy-efficient buildings.

CONTENTS

Architecture and building services

• Historical development of building services engineering
• Thermal comfort and building services
• Future developments and strategies

Building services in the energy concept

• Energy concepts and their boundary conditions
• Concept development
• 10 steps to an energy-efficient building
• Costs and profitability

Building services systems

• Heating
• Cooling
• Air supply
• Power supply
• Water supply

Technical concepts

• Current state of technology
• Multi-family dwelling, Liebefeld
• Passive-house housing estate, Innsbruck
• Multi-family dwelling, Bennau
• Care and nursing home, Steinfield
• District administration and country council, Eberswalde
• Office building, Cologne
• Office building, Winterthur
• European Investment Bank, Luxenburg
• Office building, Vienna
• Office building, Berlin
• Office building, Konstanz
• Institute and administration building, Aachen
• Production building, Kassel
• Community house, Ludech
• Military dining and leisure facility, Donaueschingen
• Mountain retaurant, Zermatt

Optimising existing buildings

• Protecting existing stock and refurbishing systems
• Optimising and adjusting systems

Optimising building operations

• Building managment
• Energy savings potential in building operations
• Energy  monitoring

144 pages, color & b&w ills / 21,5 x 30 cm / English