Retrofitting : The Energy and Environment of Buildings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bomberg, Mark.

Series:

De Gruyter STEM Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Energy conservation.

Buildings.

Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.

Sustainable buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The challenge to create a next generation technology and methods for testing its performance, led to Integration of heating/ cooling and ventilation with wall structures.Passive and Thermo-Active Cluster (PTAC) integrates hydronic heat exchangers with solar panels and underground water tanks (providing thermal storage) for heat pump.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Executive summary in German Zielsetzung und Zusammenfassung des Buches

1.1 Spezialwissen zu Energie und Innenraumklima

1.2 Eine Kluft zwischen angestrebter und erreichter Energieeffizienz in der Praxis

1.3 Das Scheitern des ersten Passivhauses der Welt

1.4 Das Scheitern des traditionellen Nachrüstungskonzepts

1.5 Die Notwendigkeit für eine Nachrüstungsvision

1.6 Verbesserung der Projektvision: Das Integrierte Designprotokoll (IDP)

2 Universelle Gebäudeenergie- und Umwelttechnik

3 Universelle Energie- und Umwelttechnik für das Nachrüsten

3.1 Mehrstufiges Bauen: Atelier Rosemont in Montreal, Kanada

3.2 Integration ermöglicht neue Methoden der Energieversorgung

3.3 Die Wandwärmetauscher: Paneele oder Einbau vor Ort

3.4 Andere Verbesserungen, die in der PTAC-Technologie enthalten sind

3.5 Senkung der Kosten der Dekarbonisierung

3.6 Erfindung eines Fernklimasystems als Ersatz für die Fernwärme

4 Die Vorteile des vorgeschlagenen Ansatzes

Schlussfolgerungen

Referenzen

Executive summary in PolishTermomodernizacja w świetle strategicznych poglądów na energie i środowisko mieszkaniowe rozszerzone streszczenie książki

Potrzeba wizji dla termomodernizacji

Koncepcja Pasywnego i Termo-Aktywnego Kompleksu (PTAK)

Opis systemu PTAK (pasywny i termo-aktywny kompleks)

Logika wyboru systemu energetycznego

Termomodernizacja może zmniejszyć koszt emisji węglowej

Wielo-stopniowe budowanie może zmniejszyć koszt jakości budynku

Rejonowa siec klimatyczna

Perspektywa technologii PTAK

References

Chapter 1 Objective and executive summary of the book

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1.1 Defining the knowledge domain for energy and indoor environment

1.2 A gap between energy efficiency intended and achieved in practice

1.3 Failure of the first passive house in the world.

1.4 Failure of the traditional retrofitting approach

1.5 The need for retrofitting vision

1.6 Improving project vision: integrated design protocol

2 Universal building energy and environmental technology

3 Universal energy and environmental technology for retrofitting

3.1 Multistage construction: Atelier Rosemont in Montreal, Canada

3.2 Integration enables new energy supply methodology

3.3 The wall heat exchangers: panels or built in situ

3.4 Other improvements included in the PTAC technology

3.5 Reducing the cost of decarbonization

3.6 Invention of a climatic district system to replace the district heating

4 The benefits of the proposed approach

5 Closure

Chapter 2 The history of environmental control in buildings

2.1a Control air infiltration through walls - introduction of building paper

2.1b Thermal insulation in the framed cavity

2.1c Water vapor retarder on the warm side of the cavity

2.1d Vapor retarders became mandatory

2.1e Introduction of air/vapor barrier

2.2 Environmental control: heat, air, and moisture interactions

2.2a Moisture effects - material durability

2.2b Heat energy - dynamic performance

2.2c Addressing the duality (plurality)

2.3 Energy mirage demonstrates the role of thermal mass

2.4 The failure of fragmented approach

2.4a Improvements in heat, air, and moisture control in cold climates

2.4b Energy use in the building systems

2.4c The failure of fragmented approach to retrofitting

2.5 Evaluation of systems, not materials

2.6 Review of the design principles

Objective A1: continuity of functions (continuity of performance attributes)

Objective A2: second line of defense (redundancy)

Objective A3: integrate interactive effects.

Constrain B1: consider separate lives of components or assemblies

Constrain B2: high to low (follow the gradients)

Constrain B3: consider moisture-originated deterioration mechanisms

Balance between objectives and constrains

Balance C1: keep balance between continuity and separation

Balance C2: use risk assessment for flows and their effects

Balance C3: use economic considerations for interactive effects

2.7 Key components of "green value" of the building

Chapter 3 Air transport

3.1 Air flow through porous materials

3.2 Examples of air leakage tests

3.3 Air pressure distribution in a building

3.4 Development of the current approach

3.4.1 Terminology related to air barriers

3.4.2 Background to current requirements of airtightness

3.4.3 The need to test air flow rates

3.4.4 Different air pressure fields

3.5 Air leakage of a building

3.6 Methods for airtightness testing under field conditions

3.6.1 Fan depressurization method EN-ISO 99722

3.6.2 Parallel flow airtightness test

3.6.3 Using perturbations and inverse of multizonal flow solutions

3.6.4 Gas tracer method

3.7 Discussion on air control issues

Chapter 4 Interacting water and vapor flows

4.1 Water vapor in the air

4.2 Concepts related to moisture in porous materials

4.3 Moisture of the material in equilibrium with moist air: sorption isotherms

4.4 Diffusion of water vapor through a porous material

4.5 Concept of capillarity

4.6 Free water intake or rain on a material surface

4.7 Moisture retention curves

4.8 Construction (built-in) moisture

4.9 Interactions between water liquid and vapor phases

4.10 Movement of moisture causes heat transfer

4.11 Thermally driven movement of moisture

4.12 Material characteristics for moisture flow in hygrothermal modeling.

4.13 Control of rain penetration

Chapter 5 Multidirectional heat flows

5.1 Mechanisms of heat flow

5.2 Factors affecting multidimensional heat transfer

5.3 Effect of heat-collecting layers

5.4 Effect of insulation placement

5.5 Effects of boundary conditions and corners

5.6 A concept of thermal insulation efficiency

5.7 Estimating the effect of multidimensional heat flow

5.7.1 Serial and parallel flow models

5.8 Effect of thermal bridges in wall assembly

5.9 Thermal bridging in the steel stud walls

5.10 Thermal bridges and surface condensation

5.11 A closing puzzle

5.12 Closure of chapter

Chapter 6 To test or to guess: paradoxes of testing within building science

6.1 Do not simplify before you understand, simplify test when you know all critical factors

6.2 Paradox of testing and knowledge

6.2.1 Block of testing (to demonstrate the effect of one factor in different exposures)

6.2.2 Sensitivity analysis (to rate effects of various factors in different exposures)

6.3 An appropriate test method to evaluate the performance of a material under service conditions

6.4 Paradox of material variability

6.5 Paradox of accelerated tests

6.6 Paradox of laboratory or field evaluation

6.7 Paradox of integrated monitoring, and modeling to replace testing

6.8 Closure to chapter

Chapter 7 Affordable, zero emission, environment retrofitting technology

7.1 Problem-solving method related to nature-like thinking

7.2 Looking for a new energy-generating method

7.3 Passive and thermo-active cluster: a universal and affordable retrofitting technology

7.3.1 Alleviating economic conflict with the two-stage (multistage) construction process

7.3.2 Energy generation and storage units

7.3.3 Wall climate controlling unit.

7.4 An invention of a district climatic system to replace the district heating

7.5 The benefits of the holistic approach to construction

7.6 Summary of PTAC technology

Chapter 8 Closure: who could start scientific revolution in retrofitting?

8.1 The logic of newly proposed technology

8.2 The critical issue

Further reading: historic sources of information

About the authors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-221702-0

9783112217023

OCLC:

1553843494