House Rating Schemes : From Energy to Comfort Base

House Rating Schemes : From Energy to Comfort Base

 2010 | 300 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment.

 It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. 

Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. 

The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.
 

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Building Construction Illustrated

Building Construction Illustrated

 2nd Edition
Francis D. K. Ching

 This classic title has been completely revised and now incorporates new information on concrete, steel and glazing technology; energy efficiency in buildings; moisture and thermal protection; natural lighting; masonry; and other topics. 

The organization of the text is according to a building's major components and systems. Presents material and structural choices available to the designer, how these choices affect a building's form and dimensions, and its relationship to its site.

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Energy Conservation in Buildings

Energy Conservation in Buildings :

 A Guide to Part L of the Building Regulations

The conservation of fuel and power in buildings is an important part of the UK government's strategy to reduce national energy conservation. The revision to Part L of the Building Regulations, which came into force on 1 April 2002, lays down detailed and extensive requirements for conserving energy in almost all buildings and it covers most potential causes of building energy consumption.

This guide explains these detailed requirements and shows how they apply to particular cases, with the use of numerous worked examples. It includes a chapter on air tightness and leakage testing, a topic with which many building professionals are unfamiliar.

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Timber Construction: Details, Products, Case Studies

Timber Construction: 

Details, Products, Case Studies

New materials and stricter energy-efficiency requirements have brought about radical changes in timber construction in recent years.

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Architecture in a Climate of Change

Architecture in a Climate of Change

Second Edition

PDF | 192 pages | 6,3 mb

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Architecture - Comfort and Energy

Architecture - Comfort and Energy

PDF | 241 pages | 15 MB

In this book we seek to approach the architecture-energy combination and its relationship to human comfort and the environment .

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The Building Environment : Active and Passive Control Systems

The Building Environment : 

Active and Passive Control Systems,

 3rd Edition

145 Mb

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Building Construction Illustrated, 2nd Edition

Building Construction Illustrated, 2nd Edition

Francis D. K. Ching , Cassandra Adams,

This classic title has been completely revised and now incorporates new information on concrete, steel and glazing technology; energy efficiency in buildings; moisture and thermal protection; natural lighting; masonry; and other topics. The organization of the text is according to a building's major components and systems. Presents material and structural choices available to the designer, how these choices affect a building's form and dimensions, and its relationship to its site.

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