Building physics and energy-efficient construction Books
Taunton Press Inc Pretty Good House: A Common-Sense Approach To
Book SynopsisFrustrated with complicated and restrictive green-building certification programs and the under-enforced building code, a group of architects and builders in Portland, Maine, came up with the idea of the Pretty Good House. What, they asked, should you include in a house that does right for its inhabitants and the planet, but that does not go beyond reasonable environmental or financial payback? In a nutshell, a Pretty Good House is a house that's as small as possible (remember The Not So Big House?); it is simple and durable, but also well designed; it uses wood and plant-derived products as construction materials; it includes photovoltaic panels or is PV-ready; it should be insulated and air-sealed well enough that heating and cooling systems can be minimal, and, above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient.
£26.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Sprinkler Hydraulics: A Guide to Fire System
Book SynopsisThis is the foremost guide to hydraulically designing sprinkler systems for commercial and residential buildings. Sprinkler Hydraulics, Third Edition includes the latest developments in automatic sprinkler design, as well as going beyond the NFPA 13 Standard to explain everything needed to know to professionally design a system. Sprinkler Hydraulics, Third Edition explains flow phenomena to help the reader evaluate calculated sprinkler systems. Starting with a general discussion of the mathematics involved, the discussion proceeds to define sprinkler density, including several examples which explain how to determine discharge areas.• Includes the latest developments in automatic sprinkler design, as well as going beyond the NFPA 13 Standard to explain everything needed to know to professionally design a system;• Starting with a general discussion of the mathematics involved, the discussion proceeds to define sprinkler density, including several examples which explain how to determine discharge areas;• Explains flow phenomena to help the reader evaluate calculated sprinkler systems.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Automatic Sprinklers: A Brief Overview.- 3 NFPA 13.- 4 Those Magic Words: Hydraulically Calculated.- 5 A Word About the Math.- 6 A Few Words About the Units of Measurement.- 7 Back at the Lab: What Has Been Going on There?.- 8 The Evolution of the Sprinkler: Choose Your Weapons With Care.- 9 What Are We Calculating?.- 10 Discharge from a Sprinkler.- 11 Elevation Change.- 12 Sprinkler Piping: Nothing is Simple These Days.- 13 Friction Loss of Water Flowing in a Pipe.- 14 Underground Fire Service Mains.- 15 Losses from Fittings and Valves.- 16 Backflow Preventers.- 17 Velocity Pressures.- 18 The Hydraulically Most Remote Area.- 19 Flow Velocity as a Constraint.- 20 Calculating a Dead-End Sprinkler System.- 21 Relating Hydraulic Calculations to the Water Supply.- 22 A Simplified Method for Calculating Pipe Schedule Systems.- 23 Factory Mutual Data Sheet 2-76.
£94.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Building Physics: From physical principles to
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive presentation of the most important phenomena in building physics: heat transfer, moisture/humidity, sound/acoustics and illumination. As the book is primarily aimed at engineers, it addresses technical issues with the necessary pragmatism and incorporates many practical examples and related international standards. In order to ensure a complete understanding, it also explains the underlying physical principles and relates them to practical aspects in a simple and clear manner. The relationships between the various phenomena of building physics are clarified through consistent cross-referencing of formulas and ideas. The second edition features both new and revised sections on topics such as energy balance, solar gain, ventilation, road traffic and daylighting and takes into account new developments in international standards. It newly features almost 200 illustrations and 21 videos worth of supplementary material. The book is primarily aimed at students of civil engineering and architecture, as well as scientists and practitioners in these fields who wish to deepen or broaden their knowledge of topics within building physics.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Basics of thermodynamics.- Heat transfer.- Heat transfer in building components.- Moisture in building components.- Basics of waves.- Sound propagation.- Building acoustics.- Illumination.- Appendix A.- Tables.- Bibliography.- Index.
£52.24
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Smart Architecture – A Sustainable Approach for
Book SynopsisThis book explores the specific role that glazing technologies play within the world of smart architecture as important components of contemporary and future sustainable architectural and technological research. Smart Architecture begins with a definition of the concept of “smart” in architecture and examines how innovative technologies and materials have shaped buildings over the years. The author then provides a supporting database of contemporary smart architecture—mapping adopted strategies, recognizing common patterns, and evaluating current and future trends in the context of smart building envelopes, energy efficiency, and the development of high-potential innovative building components. The book proceeds with a focus on the specific role that glazing technologies play in this framework and provides a systematic methodology to quantify options for the effective integration of transparent building components within advanced and innovative building envelope systems.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The Building Envelope.- The “Smart” Concept Definition in Architecture.- How Technology Has Shaped Architecture Over the Years.- Smart Architecture: Selection and Classification of Existing Examples of Smart Buildings.- Why Windows Matter?.- Glazing for Smart Architecture.- Smart Window Technologies.- The Decision Support Tool.
£104.49
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Exergy Analysis of the Air Handling Unit at
Book SynopsisThis book explore how exergy analysis can be an important tool for assessing the sustainability of buildings.Building's account or around 40 percent of total energy conditions depending on local climatic conditions. Due to its nature, exergy analysis should become a valuable tool for the assessment of building sustainability, first of all considering their scope and the dependence of their energy demands on the local environmental and climatic conditions.Nonetheless, methodological bottlenecks do exist and a solution to some of them is proposed in this monograph. First and foremost, there is the still-missing thermodynamically viable method to apply the variable reference environment temperature in exergy analysis. The monograph demonstrates that a correct approach to the directions of heat exergy flows, when the reference temperature is considered variable, allows reflecting the specifics of energy transformation processes in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in a thermodynamically viable way. The outcome of the case analysis, which involved coordinated application of methodologies based on the Carnot factor and coenthalpies, was exergy analysis indicators – exergy efficiency and exergy destroyed – obtained for air handling units and their components. These methods can be used for the purposes of analysing and improving building technical systems that, as a rule, operate at a variable environment temperature. Exergy analysis becomes more reliable in designing dynamic models of such systems and their exergy-based control algorithms. This would improve the possibility to deploy them in building information modelling (BIM) technologies and the application of life cycle analysis (LCA) principles in designing buildings, thus improving the quality of the decision-making process. Furthermore, this would benefit other systems where variable reference environment plays a key role.This book is relevant to academics, students and researchers in the field of thermodynamic analysis considering HVAC equipment, building energy systems, energy efficiency, sustainable development of technical systems of energy, mechanics, and construction, as well as preservation of natural resources. Planners, designers, engineers of HVAC equipment, building energy systems, and developers of appropriate simulation tools (e.g., BIM) will also find it of use.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Theoretical bases of exergy analysis with variable reference temperature.- Heat recovery exchanger of air handling unit.- Air handling unit heat pump operation modes.- Comparative exergy analysis of air handling unit cases.- Seasonal exergy efficiency of an air handling unit.
£104.49
Springer International Publishing AG Handbook of Retrofitting High Density Residential
Book SynopsisThis book investigates energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of public housing, using post-war social housing development estates in Cyprus as its example. On this Mediterranean island, which experiences hot and humid temperatures throughout the year, residential buildings need to adapt to the climate to improve the thermal comfort of their occupants. The book assesses the domestic energy use of inefficiently built residential tower blocks and their occupants’ thermal comfort by considering the significant impact of overheating risks on energy consumption and occupants’ thermal comfort and well-being, with the intention of evaluating the current energy performance of base-case representative residential tower blocks (RTBs). In particular, considering the cooling energy demand in the summer, using Famagusta, Cyprus as a case study. It seeks to identify the impact of occupancy patterns and habitual adaptive behaviour of households on home energy performance in order to provide bases for the information needed to calibrate building energy performance of targeted households. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Energy efficiency directives and policy aspirations in retrofit interventions.- Chapter 3. Methods and Tools.- Chapter 4. The significance of occupancy patterns and household habitual adaptive behaviour on home energy performance.- Chapter 5. A field study investigation to assess on households’ thermal discomfort and overheating risk of buildings.- Chapter 6. A field study investigation on the regression forecasting “neutral” adaptive thermal comfort.- Chapter 7. A Developing a novel methodology to calibrate building energy performance of social housing estates – Building diagnostics, energy audit and energy forecasting.- Chapter 8. A novel methodological framework for building optimization of social housing estate – Policy design and life cycle cost impact analysis of retrofit strategies.- Chapter 9. Developing an evidence-based energy policy framework to asset robust energy performance evaluation and certification schemes.- Chapter 10. Conclusions and future recommendations.
£179.99
Springer International Publishing AG Introduction to Refrigeration and Air
Book SynopsisThis second edition builds on the foundation established by the previous first edition published in 2017. The first edition covered background information, description, and analysis of four major cooling system technologies - vapor compression cooling, evaporative cooling, absorption cooling, and gas cooling. The second edition has been expanded to include increased coverage of cooling system refrigerants, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and building cooling loads. With increasing climate change due to the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, there has been a worldwide impetus to transition to cooling systems and refrigerants that have a low or even zero global warming potential. The text is written as a tutorial for engineering students and practicing engineers who want to become more familiar with the performance of refrigeration and air conditioning systems. The goals are to familiarize the reader with cooling technology nomenclature and provide insight into how refrigeration and air conditioning systems can be modeled and analyzed. Emphasis is placed on constructing idealized thermodynamic cycles to represent actual physical situations in cooling systems. The book contains numerous practical examples to show how one can calculate the performance of cooling system components. By becoming familiar with the analyses presented in the examples, one can gain a feel for representative values of the various thermal and mechanical parameters that characterize cooling systems. Table of ContentsIntroduction to Cooling Technologies.- Vapor Compression Cooling Cycles.- Evaporative, Absorption, and Gas Cooling Cycles.- Fluid Flow in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems.- Heat Transfer in HVAC Systems.- Cooling Loads in Buildings.- Cooling Equipment.- Physical Constants and Conversion Factors.- Author Biography.
£49.49
Birkhauser Einfach Bauen: Ein Leitfaden
Book Synopsis Innovation by Reduction How can architecture create a pleasant indoor climate using construction techniques and as little technology as possible? Researchers from four different departments at the Technical University of Munich joined forces with the engineering firm Transsolar Energietechnik to explore integral strategies for simple, energy-efficient construction. The architecture firm Florian Nagler Architekten implemented the plans developed by the TUM project for three prototype buildings made of solid wood, masonry and lightweight concrete in monolithic construction. Using these apartment buildings as examples, the guide vividly elucidates the six core principles of simple construction. Analysis of three exemplary apartment buildings Monolithic structures in wood, lightweight concrete, and brick The result of an interdisciplinary research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
£31.35
Birkhauser Building Simply: A guideline
Book SynopsisInnovation by Reduction How can architecture create a pleasant indoor climate using construction techniques and as little technology as possible? Researchers from four different departments at the Technical University of Munich joined forces with the engineering firm Transsolar Energietechnik to explore integral strategies for simple, energy-efficient construction. The architecture firm Florian Nagler Architekten implemented the plans developed by the TUM project for three prototype buildings made of solid wood, masonry and lightweight concrete in monolithic construction. Using these apartment buildings as examples, the guide vividly elucidates the six core principles of simple construction. Analysis of three exemplary apartment buildings Monolithic structures in wood, lightweight concrete, and brick The result of an interdisciplinary research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
£29.70
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Brand- und Explosionsschutz von A-Z:
Book SynopsisIn alphabetischer Reihenfolge werden alle wichtigen Begriffe des bautechnischen Brandschutzes und des Explosionsschutzes erläutert. Das Lexikon deckt die Schnittstelle zwischen Bauwesen und Brandschutzwesen sowie zwischen Explosionsschutz und Betriebssicherheit ab. Dadurch wird das gegenseitige Verständnis der Akteure insbesondere im Baugenehmigungsverfahren und bei der Erfüllung der Betriebssicherheitsverordnung gefördert. In vielen Tabellen wurden umfangreiche brandschutztechnische und sicherheitstechnische Kennzahlen zusammengestellt und für die Praxis leicht nutzbar aufbereitet. Die Tabellen liefern den Praktikern z. B. Zahlenmaterial für die Brandlastberechnung im Baugenehmigungsverfahren, aber auch für die Erstellung der Explosionsschutzdokumente. Das Buch ist ein wichtiges Nachschlagewerk für alle im Brand- und Explosionsschutz sowie in deren Randbereiche Tätigen.Table of ContentsBegriffserläuterungen - Tabellen für Explosionsdruck, Explosionsgrenzen, Explosionspunkte - Flammpunkte - Heizwerte bezogen auf die Masse, das Volumen und auf das Stück
£75.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ultraleichter, zementgebundener Schaum als
Book SynopsisAusgehend von einer Entwicklung thermisch aktivierter Gebäudehüllelemente aus nahezu sortenreinen, zementgebundenen Werkstoffen, die jedoch aus einer tragenden Innenschale mit aufgebrachter Dämmung aus ultraleichtem, mineralisiertem Schaum sowie einer Vorhangfassade aus sehr dünnen, mikrobewehrten UHPC-Platten bestehen, wird die Frage diskutiert, inwiefern sich derartige Bauteile auch als tragende Sandwichelemente umsetzen lassen.Hierzu wird in einem ersten Schritt der mögliche Kerndämmstoff aus ultraleichtem, zementgebundenem Schaum mechanisch untersucht und die für eine Sandwichanwendung relevanten Werkstoffkenngrößen ermittelt. Für eine mögliche Berechnung von Sandwichelementen aus mineralisiertem, zementösem Schaum werden aus der Literatur bekannte Sandwichtheorien aufbereitet und im Hinblick auf ihre Anwendbarkeit bei einem derart schubweichen Kernmaterial sowie in Bezug auf den Rechenaufwand und die daraus generierte Genauigkeit der Ergebnisse miteinander verglichen und bewertet.Im Hinblick auf die Klimaschutzziele sollte bei allen neuartigen Konstruktionen immer auch die Frage des ökologischen Fußabdrucks gestellt werden. Dies erfolgt im Rahmen einer Produktökobilanzierung des mineralisierten Schaumes, durch die Ermittlung der herstellungsbedingten CO2 – äquivalenten Emissionen sowie des Primärenergiebedarfs und eines Vergleichs mit anderen Kerndämmstoffen. Die sortenreine Trennung des Schaumes von den Deckschichten kann für die Kombination mit Stahlbeton nachgewiesen werden.Die Umsetzung als Sandwichelement erfolgt abschließend mit funktionalisierten Deckschichten aus Wabenplatten, die über eine Trägerschicht aus Gipsputz mit dem Schaum verbunden werden, wobei die hohe Schwindneigung des Schaumes sich aktuell als Hindernis für eine dauerhafte, robuste Umsetzung zeigt.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Theoretische Grundlagen zu mineralisierten Schäumen, Ökobilanzierung und Sandwichtheorien.- Untersuchungen zum mechanischen Verhalten von zementösem, mineralisiertem Schaum.- Ökobilanzierung von mineralisiertem Schaum.- Berechnungsverfahren von Sandwichelementen mit mineralisiertem Schaum.- Mineralisierter Schaum in der baupraktischen Anwendung.- Fazit und Ausblick.
£49.49
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Einfluss der Oberflächenrauigkeit auf die
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird eine thermoplastische und hochorientierte kurzglasfaserverstärkte Prüfplatte konzeptioniert und vorgestellt. Ebenso wird der Einfluss der fräsinduzierten Oberflächenrauigkeit auf die mechanischen Eigenschaften während der Probenpräparation umfassend beleuchtet. Bisher existieren keine adäquaten Methoden zur Herstellung von spritzgegossenen Prüfplatten mit hoher und homogener Faserorientierung, die eine hinreichende Breite besitzen, um Proben in beliebigem Extraktionswinkel für die mechanische Prüfung herzustellen. Eine solche hochorientierte Prüfplatte wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit konzeptioniert und in einem Spritzgusswerkzeug realisiert. Mikrocomputertomographische Analysen der neuartigen Prüfplatte zeigen einen Faserorientierungsgrad von durchschnittlich 85.1 %. Um ein detailliertes Verständnis der Einflussfaktoren der Probenpräparation auf die mechanischen Eigenschaften zu gewinnen, werden Probekörper mit unterschiedlichen Fräsparametersätzen aus diesen hochorientierten Prüfplatten heraus gefräst. Es resultieren unterschiedliche Oberflächenrauigkeiten. Die Proben mit verschiedenen Faserorientierungen werden unter einachsiger Zugbelastung bei 23 °C (Raumtemperatur) und -10 °C untersucht. Für beide Temperaturen zeigt die systematische Analyse keinen signifikanten Einfluss der Oberflächenrauigkeit auf die mechanischen Kennwerte.Table of ContentsPolymerwerkstoffe.- Faserorientierung in kurzfaserverstärkten Thermoplasten.- Probekörper mit hoher Faserorientierung.
£66.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Kitchen Pollutants Control and Ventilation: A Ventilation Guide to Asian & European Kitchen Environment
Book SynopsisThis book has been written by two experts in ventilation and indoor air quality with vast experience in the field of kitchen ventilation in both Asia and Europe. The authors share their extensive knowledge of the subject and present the results of their research programs as well those of other researchers. Discussing advanced theories of and design approaches for kitchen ventilation, it is a useful reference resource for a wide range of readers, including HVAC researchers, designers and architects.Table of ContentsCooking history and development of kitchen appliances.- Kitchen ventilation requirements.- Pollutions of cooking oil fume and health risks.- Thermal comfort in kitchen.- Basis to calculate exhaust airflow rate.- Design of kitchen ventilation.- High performance kitchen ventilation.- Stack effects of kitchen exhaust shaft in high-rise building.- Case study and design of kitchen ventilation.
£85.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Attachment Ventilation Theory
Book SynopsisThis open access book systematically summarizes the current research progress of attachment ventilation, covering vertical wall attachment, column attachment, and adaptive attachment ventilation. Attachment ventilation is a high-performance ventilation mode that was first proposed by the author, Prof. Angui Li 20 years ago. Now it has been widely used in office spaces, subway stations, high-speed railway stations, international airport terminals, and other large spaces. This book introduces attachment ventilation in detail to eliminate the cooling/heating load of the occupied zone and provide an expected environment for the air-conditioned zone. Attachment ventilation combines the advantages of traditional mixed ventilation and displacement ventilation. This book consists of six chapters, covering a series of airflow patterns, mechanisms, parameter correlations, and attachment ventilation design methods. It is helpful for HVAC engineers to design attachment ventilation effectively.Table of ContentsCooking history and development of kitchen appliances.- Kitchen ventilation requirements.- Pollutions of cooking oil fume and health risks.- Thermal comfort in kitchen.- Basis to calculate exhaust airflow rate.- Design of kitchen ventilation.- High performance kitchen ventilation.- Stack effects of kitchen exhaust shaft in high-rise building.- Case study and design of kitchen ventilation.
£31.49
