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Environmental design of urban buildings : an integrated approach / edited by Mat Santamouris.
LIBRA TH880 .E54 2006 1 v. + CD-ROM
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Sustainable architecture.
- Buildings--Energy conservation.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2006.
- Summary:
- "Explains how to overcome related challenges in environmental design of urban buildings and offers guidance on the use of new material and techniques, and the integration of new philosophies"--Provided by publisher.
- Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "multi-media software tools and climatic data ..."--P. [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- 1 Environmental Urban Design / Dana Raydan, Koen Steemers 1
- Introduction: Urban environmental facts today 1
- Vernacular urban planning: A lesson from the past? 2
- Practical research into urban climatology related to built form 6
- Energy consumption and urban spatial structure 7
- Energy efficiency and renewable energy potential versus city texture and configuration 19
- Research into practice for environmental urban planning and design 24
- Energy-efficient urban planning and design versus amenity, equity and aesthetics 27
- 2 Architectural Design and Passive Environmental and Building Engineering Systems / Spyros Amourgis 36
- The building concept 36
- The building design process 37
- Passive systems in buildings 38
- 3 Environmental Issues of Building Design / Koen Steemers 46
- Site planning 49
- Building plan and section 50
- Courtyard and atrium spaces 52
- Building-use patterns 53
- Construction detail 54
- Natural lighting 55
- Designing for passive solar gains 55
- Strategies for natural ventilation 57
- Avoiding overheating and increasing comfort 58
- Artificial lighting systems 59
- Providing heat 59
- Services 60
- 4 Sustainable Design, Construction and Operation / Evangelos Evangelinos, Elias Zacharopoulos 63
- Sustainability and building 63
- Sustainable construction techniques and materials 65
- Recycling buildings 69
- Sustainable construction processes 70
- 5 Intelligent Controls and Advanced Building Management Systems / Saso Medved 75
- Intelligent buildings 76
- Fundamentals of control systems 76
- Building management systems 79
- Examples of building management systems 86
- 6 Urban Building Climatology / Stavroula Karatasou, Mat Santamouris, Vassilios Geros 95
- The urban temperature 96
- Urban wind field 100
- Urban canyon effect 103
- How to improve the urban climate 111
- 7 Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Urban Buildings / Samuel Hassid, Vassilios Geros 120
- Physics of heat transfer and rate equations 121
- Principles of heat transfer in buildings 123
- 8 Applied Lighting Technologies for Urban Buildings / Saso Medved, Ciril Arkar 146
- Light 147
- Human sight and its characteristics 147
- Photometric quantities 148
- Sources of light 149
- Visual comfort requirements 155
- Requests with reference to daylighting and the duration of sun exposure for buildings in urban areas 162
- Light pollution 164
- Lighting and the use of energy in buildings 167
- Case study 1 Meletikiki office building 176
- Case study 2 Avax office building 183
- Case study 3 Ampelokipi residential building 189
- Case study 4 Bezigrajski dvor: An energy-efficient settlement in Ljubljana 195
- Case study 5 Commercial building with a double facade 200
- Case study 6 Euro centre commercial building with atrium 206
- Case study 7 Potsdamer Platz: Office and residential development, Berlin, Germany 212
- Case study 8 School of Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 216
- Case study 9 Inland Revenue Office Headquarters, Nottingham, UK 220
- 10 Guidelines to Integrate Energy Conservation / Marc Blake, Spyros Amourgis 225
- Design guidelines 232
- 11 Indoor Air Quality / Vassilios Geros 245
- Indoor air quality 246
- Sick building syndrome and building-related illness 246
- Indoor air quality design 247
- Indoor pollutants and pollutant sources 251
- International standards of indoor air quality 254
- Modelling indoor pollutants 255
- 12 Applied Energy and Resource Management in the Urban Environment / Saso Medved 264
- Energy sources 265
- Energy use in cities 269
- Energy efficiency in the urban environment 270
- Water resources and management 280
- Material flows in cities 283
- 13 Economic Methodologies / Vassilios Geros 294
- Economic methodologies 294
- Discount techniques 295
- Non-discount techniques 300
- 14 Integrated Building Design / Koen Steemers 310
- An integrated building design system 311
- Principles of low-energy design 311
- Pre-design context 311
- Building design 312
- Building services 312
- The integrated building design system 312
- Interrelationships between design parameters 312
- Design parameters versus low-energy strategies 314
- Design parameters versus environmental systems 315
- Design parameters versus energy strategies 315.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1902916425
- 9781902916422
- OCLC:
- 69734413
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