Search results for ""Author Haşim Altan""
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.
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Springer International Publishing AG Advances in Architecture, Engineering and
Book SynopsisThis book summarizes the latest studies regarding innovation in urban design and planning. It shares many tips and insights about sustainable solutions for the issues facing transport systems, innovative digital technologies, and ICT trends. The book touches upon the need to integrate the three fields of Architecture, Engineering, and Technology that have become indispensable. This is intended to respond to the increasing human needs and population growth in cities on one hand and to develop a holistic approach that helps overcome challenges to sustainability and environment management on the other hand. With the power of engineering in practice, problems of design and development once considered too complex to be dealt with other than empirically, intuitively, or by trial and error, are now becoming more solvable and applicable. This book offers strategies and solutions that enable designers to bring together knowledge in the fields of architecture, engineering, and technology to overcome challenges facing in modern times.Table of ContentsIntegrated Design Concept for Identifiable Commercial Heritage Tourism in Tunjungan District of Surabaya City.- Environmental product declarations for building materials: advantages, limits, developments.- Public-private partnerships in Romanian new urban developments - a potential valuable instrument in the privatization era.- Interaction of prehistoric heritage with today's landscape: the case study of Arslantepe Mound (Malatya/TURKEY).- HygroMorphs: Exploring Morphologies of Architectural Adaptive Systems using Hygroscopic Properties of Wood.- Analyzing Public Transport System in Twin Cities of Rawalpindi/Islamabad.- Assessing the environmental aspects of road network resiliency.
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