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Building Futures: Managing energy in the built environment

Autor Jane Powell, Jennifer Monahan, Chris Foulds
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 noi 2015
A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security. Despite improvements in thermal efficiency, the energy demand of buildings stubbornly remains unchanged, or is only declining slowly, due to the challenges posed by growing populations, the expectations of larger, more comfortable and better equipped living spaces, and an expanding commercial sector.
Building Futures offers an interdisciplinary approach to explore this lack of progress, combining technical and social insights into the challenges of designing, constructing and operating new low energy buildings, as well as improving the existing, inefficient, building stock. The twin roles of energy efficiency, which is predominantly concerned with technological solutions, and energy conservation which involves changing peoples’ behaviour, are both explored. The book includes a broad geographical range and scale of case studies from the UK, Europe and further afield, including Passivhaus in Germany and the UK, Dongtan Eco City in China and retrofit houses in Denmark.
This book is a valuable resource for students and academics of environmental science and energy-based subjects as well as construction and building management professionals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415720106
ISBN-10: 0415720109
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 92 colour illustrations, 25 colour tables, 2 colour illustrations, 65 colour line drawings
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Energy use in the built environment  2. Reducing energy demand  3. Lifecycle energy and carbon in buildings  4. Energy performance gap  5. Retrofitting buildings  6. The Passivhaus energy efficiency standard  7. Ventilating the building stock  8. Building futures

Recenzii

"This book is a must read for anyone planning a career in the built environment. It accurately captures the complexities of energy demand through focusing on interdisciplinarity and astutely assesses the opportunities of smart energy in homes, retrofits and new builds. Importantly, the book puts people right at the centre of its thinking."Philip Sellwood, Chief Executive, Energy Saving Trust
"We are on the threshold of a ‘next generation’ of design thinking. This book explores some of the shortcomings in current approaches and provides blueprints for designing genuinely better buildings in which we can successfully and comfortably survive in a warming and resource challenged future." – Sue Roaf, Professor of Architectural Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Descriere

This book explores the important contribution of the built environment in the reduction of household energy consumption and in meeting the urgent challenge of the 2050 carbon reduction target. It examines trends in energy demand in UK and Europe across energy sectors for industry, commercial, domestic and transport, and explores the reasons for change in energy use through practice and technology. It includes a broad geographical range of case studies the UK, Europe and further afield, with particular focus on Passivhaus in Germany, low energy houses in Scandinavia and Dongtan Eco city in China.