Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138409064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Franca Trubiano

Opis

A complete introductory text on an increasingly popular subject, "Geology and Environment in Britain and Ireland" aims to provide suitably broad coverage for students requiring a treatment clearly foucused on familiar examples but retaining a global perspective.  The book summarizes for Earth and environmental scientists the ways in which geology relates to the natural environmentand to the humand activites that it supports.  The natural environment is more than the oceans, the atmosphere and the diversity of the land surface.  It extends below the ground and stretches back in time through the Earth's history.  These environmental dimensions are the concern of geology.  First, the book summarizes the geological influences on society through control of landscape and human geography, and through the threats posed by hazards such as landslides, subsidence and earhquakes.  Next, the many Earth resources that support human activity are described: land, water, construction materials minerals, coal, oil, and gas.  How are they formed or replenished?  Which resources are are sustainable for use over more than the immediate geological future?  Thirdly, the impacts of human activity an the Earth are examined - the results of extracting geological resources, of intentionally engineering the environment, and of carelessly polluting land and underground water supplies.  Perhaps most serious of all is atmospheric pollution caused by burning geological fuels, threatening global change on scales only familiar from the geological record.  This book is published at a pivotal point in the history of geology.  Scientists who, for a century and a half, have been preoccupied with finding Earth resources are increasingly being asked where on Earth to dispose of the effluents from using them.  "Geology and Environment in Britain and Ireland" provides a comapct, abundantly illustrated summary of both sides of this dile

Spis treści

Household Power: How Much is Enough? Part 1: Building Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design 1.1. Energy Free' Architectural Design - The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades 1.2. Translucent Building Skins - Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission 1.3. Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms 1.4. Nano-Materials + Bio Insulators + Phase Change Materials Part 2: Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations 2.1. The Design Integration of Renewable Energies 2.2. Systems Integrated Photovoltaics, SIPV 2.3. Building Systems, Controls and Automation 2.4. Building Performance and Computational Simulation Part 3: Integrated Practice and Residential Construction 3.1. Integrated Project Delivery - Contracting for High Performance 3.2. Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining the Team of Experts 3.3. The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated Housing in Denmark 3.4. From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies 4.1. LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System 4.2. Project Icarus: Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof 4.3. North House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System 4.4. Modular Building; Three Scales/Three Strategies

O autorze

Franca Trubiano is a Registered Architect (O.A.Q., Int. Assoc. AIA) and Assistant Professor at Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania where she received her doctoral degree and conducts research in construction technology, emerging materials, tectonic theory, integrated design and architectural ecologies.