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A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks at:

• draught-proofing, insulation and damp
• ventilation, heating and cooling
• electrical efficiency and renewable energy
• water use and re-use
• materials' life cycles and incorporating nature
• protection from climate change impacts - modelling energy flows and embodied energy
• how we can meet the need...

This book is for energy auditors or retrofitters, whether they work in the weatherization program or in the private arena, and is intended to help them prepare for several certifications. These include programs with BPI, RESNET-HERS, DOE/NREL, and AEE (Association of Energy Engineers). The material in this book contains industry procedures and techniques and is intended to be an educational resource. Topics covered include the house as a system, the auditor s tools, weatherization, sealants, insulation and barriers, retrofitting, heating and cooling, baseload, and new construction. A...

The Green Solar Cities, EU-Concerto project focuses on the practical large scale implementation of solar energy technologies in combination with new build and retrofit low energy building in the cities of Copenhagen, with its city part Valby, in Denmark and Salzburg in Austria. This book aims to influence decision makers in European cities towards a similar approach to the Green Solar Cities project, in close cooperation with leading building component suppliers, energy companies and engaged builders also working with local city officials.

This book will benefit those in a situation...

Process Architecture provides information on design principles of biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that support emerging innovative processes and technologies, use state-of-the-art equipment, are energy efficient and sustainable and meet regulatory requirements.

Relying on their hands-on experience, the authors emphasize concepts and practical approaches towards design, construction, and operation of biomanufacturing facilities, including product-process-facility relationship, closed systems and single use equipment, aseptic manufacturing considerations,...

Many Americans dream about building their own home. With this book you can make those dreams a reality. As innovative and original as it was when first published in 1972, Ken Kern's "The Owner-Built Home" is an aspiring DIY homebuilder's bible. Finally, after years of demand, it is back in print for the next generation of owner-builders.

The product of years of research and experimentation with innumerable design and construction techniques around the world, "The Owner-Built Home" is full of practical tips. It describes in refreshing, straight-forward language, everything involved in...

Many Americans dream about building their own home. With this book you can make those dreams a reality. As innovative and original as it was when first published in 1972, Ken Kern's "The Owner-Built Home" is an aspiring DIY homebuilder's bible. Finally, after years of demand, it is back in print for the next generation of owner-builders.

The product of years of research and experimentation with innumerable design and construction techniques around the world, "The Owner-Built Home" is full of practical tips. It describes in refreshing, straight-forward language, everything involved in...