Designing Zero Carbon Buildings

ISBN-13: 9781032378718 / Twarda / 2024 / 456 str.

Ljubomir Jankovic

Opis

This third edition combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach for achieving zero emissions by a specific year with certainty. It is a major positive step towards design thinking that makes achieving zero carbon emissions a reality.

Spis treści

Part 1: Zero carbon: why and how?  1. Introduction  2. Methods and tools for determining embodied emissions  3. Methods and tools for determining operational emissions  4. Weather and climate  Part 2: Embodied emissions context  5. Working out embodied emissions in a building  Part 3: Operational emissions context  6. Site issues  7. Building geometry  8. Thermal insulation and air tightness  9. Solar gain  10. Solar shading design  11. Thermal mass  12. Natural and mechanical ventilation  13. Natural daylight  14. Electrical lighting and its integration with natural daylight  15. Internal heat gains, heating and cooling  16. Renewable energy  Part 4: Designing true zero  17. Designing for thermal comfort  18. Designing for negative operational emissions  19. Designing embodied and operational emissions to target zero emissions year for a building  20. Post occupancy monitoring and performance evaluation  Part 5: Practice, Research, and Policy Development Support  21. Practice: Case Studies  22. Where the field is going – Research and Policy Development Support  23. Conclusions and future prospect

O autorze

Prof Ljubomir Jankovic, MSc, PhD, CEng, MCIBSE, MASHRAE, FIAP, FIBPSA, is Professor of Advanced Building Design at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the Director of the Zero Carbon Lab and the Director of the university-wide interdisciplinary Centre for Future Societies Research. He has worked on instrumental monitoring, dynamic simulation, and environmental design of buildings over a career spanning four decades. He holds an MSc from the University of Belgrade and a PhD from the University of Birmingham, both in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of ASHRAE, a Member of CIBSE, a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, and a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association. His professional society activities included positions of President of ASHRAE UK London and South East Chapter and Vice-President of ASHRAE UK Chapter.