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Energy manual : sustainable architecture / Manfred Hegger [and others].
Publisher number: 12219322Language: English Original language: German Series: Edition DetailPublisher: Basel : Birkhäuser ; Munich : Edition Detail, ©2008Description: 280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9783764388300
- 3764388307
- 9783764387648
- 3764387645
- Sustainable architecture
- Architecture -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainable development
- Architecture durable
- Architecture -- Aspect de l'environnement
- Développement durable
- Architecture -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainable architecture
- Sustainable development
- Energiebewusstes Bauen
- Sustainable architecture
- Architecture -- Environmental aspects
- Sustainable development
- Arquitectura sustentable
- Arquitectura -- Aspectos ambientales
- Desarrollo sustentable
- NA 2542.36 .E5313 2008
Contents:
Summary: "This manual presents a comprehensive look at the constructional parameters of energy efficiency and sustainability. It offers an advance look at the legal regulations being planned by the EU, and it points the way toward the efficient and sustainable construction and operation of buildings." --Publisher.
Part A. Positions : Global change / Chris Luebkeman -- Energy change / Hermann Scheer -- Architecture and sustainability: a difficult relationship / Robert Kaltenbrunner -- Doing things right: on efficiency and sustainability / Manfred Hegger -- Solar architecture / Thomas Herzog -- Planning and building in life cycles / Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz -- Part B. Planning : Fundamentals : Global boundary conditions ; Energy ; Climate and comfort -- Urban space and infrastructure : Land use ; Planning to suit the location ; Infrastructure and technical services -- Building envelope : Maintaining and gaining heat ; Avoiding overheating ; Decentralised ventilation ; Using the daylight ; Generating electricity -- Building services : Sustainable building services ; Heating ; Cooling ; Mechanical ventilation ; Optimising the artificial lighting -- Materials : Heat flow ; Embodied energy ; Materials in the life cycle -- Strategies : Energy concepts ; Politics, legislation, statutory instruments ; Planning process ; Sustainable architecture ; Diagnosis system for sustainable building quality (DSQ) -- Part C. Case studies -- Part D. Appendix : Parameters ; Climate data ; LCA data ; Statutory instruments, directives, standards.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NA 2542.36 .E5313 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5160238 |
Translated into English by Gerd H. Söffker, Philip Thrift and Pamela Seidel.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271) and index.
Part A. Positions : Global change / Chris Luebkeman -- Energy change / Hermann Scheer -- Architecture and sustainability: a difficult relationship / Robert Kaltenbrunner -- Doing things right: on efficiency and sustainability / Manfred Hegger -- Solar architecture / Thomas Herzog -- Planning and building in life cycles / Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz -- Part B. Planning : Fundamentals : Global boundary conditions ; Energy ; Climate and comfort -- Urban space and infrastructure : Land use ; Planning to suit the location ; Infrastructure and technical services -- Building envelope : Maintaining and gaining heat ; Avoiding overheating ; Decentralised ventilation ; Using the daylight ; Generating electricity -- Building services : Sustainable building services ; Heating ; Cooling ; Mechanical ventilation ; Optimising the artificial lighting -- Materials : Heat flow ; Embodied energy ; Materials in the life cycle -- Strategies : Energy concepts ; Politics, legislation, statutory instruments ; Planning process ; Sustainable architecture ; Diagnosis system for sustainable building quality (DSQ) -- Part C. Case studies -- Part D. Appendix : Parameters ; Climate data ; LCA data ; Statutory instruments, directives, standards.
"This manual presents a comprehensive look at the constructional parameters of energy efficiency and sustainability. It offers an advance look at the legal regulations being planned by the EU, and it points the way toward the efficient and sustainable construction and operation of buildings." --Publisher.
Translation of the 1st German ed. published: München : Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation, 2007.
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