Climate-Driven Design I : Building Energy Use, Climate and Comfort, Passive Design Strategies / Christoph Reinhart; editor, Ria Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinhart, Christoph F. (Christoph Frank), 1971- author.

Contributor:

Stein, Ria, editor.

Series:

Climate-Driven Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.

Sustainable buildings.

Energy conservation.

Energy consumption.

Heat--Transmission.

Heat.

heat transmission.

Genre:

handbooks.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

256 pages : color illustrations, maps, charts, plans ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Building Energy Use, Climate and Comfort, Passive Design Strategies

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Building Technology Press, [2025]

Biography/History:

"Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and architectural educator working in the field of sustainable building design and environmental modeling. He is a Professor in Building Technology at MIT where he is leading the Sustainable Design Lab (SDL), an inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods. He is also a managing member of Solemma, a technology company and Harvard University spinoff and served as strategic development advisor and cofounder for MIT spinoff mapdwell until it joined Palmetto Clean Technology in 2021. Products originating from SDL and Solemma are used in practice and education in over 90 countries." - back cover inner flap.

Summary:

"Climate-Driven Design, volume I...presents a systematic study of the atmospheric conditions around and thermal conditions within buildings. Its goal is to help Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) professionals, students, building owners and policy makers to lead the transition to a healthy, carbon-neutral global building stock. Part one, Building Energy Use, explains how to measure and evaluate environmental performance in terms of energy, carbon emissions and costs. Part two, Climate and Comfort, shows how to analyze a site's microclimate and discusses our evolving understanding of thermal comfort. Passive Design Strategies introduces physical phenomena that determine the relationship between indoors and outdoors, namely internal gains, thermal mass and heat flow. To help readers apply the content of this book to their own projects, environmental analysis workflows along with links to computational tools are presented for each topic area." - Preface, page [7].

Contents:

Building Energy Use. 1. Introduction

2. Target Finding

Climate and Comfort. 3. Analyzing Climate

4. Thermal Comfort

Passive Design Strategies. 5. Space Use

6. Thermal Mass

7. Heat Losses and Gains

8. Sun and Mass

Appendix: Case Studies.

Notes:

"[C]omplements the author's Daylighting Handbooks series but can read independently." - Preface, page [7].

ISBN:

9781735492315

1735492310

OCLC:

1508900939