This book explore how exergy analysis can be an important tool for assessing the sustainability of buildings.

Building's account or around 40 percent of total energy conditions depending on local climatic conditions. Due to its nature, exergy analysis should become a valuable tool for the assessment of building sustainability, first of all considering their scope and the dependence of their energy demands on the local environmental and climatic conditions.

Nonetheless, methodological bottlenecks do exist and a solution to some of them is proposed in this monograph. First and...