Running Buildings on Natural Energy (eBook, PDF)

Design Thinking for a Different Future
Redaktion: Roaf, Sue; Nicol, Fergus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines the imperative for moving towards a new generation of buildings run largely on natural energy. The chapters were originally published in Architectural Science Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351182874
• Artikelnr.: 57896067

Autorenporträt

Sue Roaf (B.A.Hons, A.A. Dipl., PhD, ARB, FRIAS) is Emeritus Professor at Heriot Watt University, UK, and sits on the Architects Registration Board. An award winning architect, teacher, author and activist she has written and edited 20 books ice-houses, energy efficiency, ecohouse, solar and sustainable design, thermal comfort and climate change adaptation. Fergus Nicol is a Professor at London Metropolitan and Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is internationally known for his 'Adaptive' thermal comfort research which has informed National, European and International comfort standards. He teaches, and publishes, widely and his current work on overheating is internationally influential. He convenes the NCEUB network (www.nceub.org) on comfort.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Running buildings on natural energy: design thinking for a
different future Sue Roaf and Fergus Nicol 2. Adaptive heating, ventilation
and solar shading for dwellings E. E. Alders 3. Thermal comfort and indoor
air quality in super-insulated housing with natural and decentralized
ventilation systems in the south of the UK Paola Sassi 4. Estimating
overheating in European dwellings Luisa Brotas and Fergus Nicol 5.
Experimental validation of simulation and measurement-based overheating
assessment approaches for residential buildings Raimo Simson, Jarek
Kurnitski and Kalle Kuusk 6. Performance of naturally ventilated buildings
in a warm-humid climate: a case study of Golconde Dormitories, South India
Mona Doctor-Pingel, Hugo Lavocat and Nehaa Bhavaraju 7. The scope of
inducing natural air supply via the façade Peter J. W. van den Engel and
Stanley R. Kurvers 8. The importance of air movement in warmer
temperatures: a novel SET* house case study John J. Shiel, Richard Aynsley,
Behdad Moghtaderi and Adrian Page 9. Saving energy with a better indoor
environment Gary J. Raw, Clare Littleford and Liz Clery 10. Ventilation
strategies for a warming world Richard Aynsley and John J. Shiel