Building physics and energy-efficient construction

This book addresses the main challenges faced today in implementing the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) concept.

This book supports HVAC planners in reducing the cooling energy demand, improving the indoor environment and designing more cost-effective building concepts.

This book addresses the societal aspects of harnessing geothermal resources for different uses, such as power production, heating and cooling.

Offering readers essential insights into the relationship between ancient buildings, their original and current indoor microclimates, this book details how the (generally) virtuous relationship between buildings and their typical microclimate changed due to the introduction of new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in historic buildings.

This book addresses key design and computational issues related to radiators in hydronic heating installations.

This book elaborates on different aspects of the decision making process concerning the management of climate risk in museums and historic houses.

This second edition builds on the foundation established by the previous first edition published in 2017.

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

This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods for building occupant behavior.

The integration of sustainability requires a paradigm shift in the lifecycle of buildings.

This book reviews the history and evolution of district heating networks, with a focus on current and future issues of the district heating sector.

This engineering guide provides a methodology to define and quantify the fire development andensuing conditions within the room of fire origin from the fire's incipient stage through its fulldevelopment.

This book offers a unique treatment of building insulating products and the integration of these products with building components.

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

This book presents Internet of Things (IoT) solutions monitoring and assessing a variety of applications areas for indoor air quality (IAQ).

This second edition builds on the foundation established by the previous first edition published in 2017.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Materials Physics, Building Structures and Technologies in Construction, Industrial and Production Engineering (MPCPE), held in Vladimir, Russia on April 26-28 2021.

This book introduces the UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and summarizes progress in this area.

The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and electric lighting of buildings, sound transmission in building structures and protection against noise, the occurrence and spread of fires in buildings and the thermal response of cities.

This book presents the new approach of resource-driven bamboo construction (RDBC), developing a clear assessment framework and operational solution to improve the value of resources and the sustainability of bamboo constructions.

This book includes the most recent outcomes from research and professional practice in the ventilative cooling field, gathered by the selected panel of authors.

This book contains selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Systems (EEMODS'19), held in Tokyo, Japan from 17-19 September 2019.

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the most important phenomena in building physics: heat transfer, moisture/humidity, sound/acoustics and illumination.

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic overview of original theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in the building services engineering domain.

This book outlines the data-driven modelling of building energy performance to support retrofit decision-making.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

Featuring research on topics such as low energy buildings' concepts, construction materials and technology, hybrid energy systems, energy balance, and wellbeing, this book meets the expectations of academicians, specialists and researchers in the field, along with the scholars seeking coverage on buildings, environmental and human impact.

This textbook focuses on underground ventilation, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects.

This book discusses energy recovery technology, a green innovation that can be used in buildings.

This book presents the main principles for designing buildings and neighborhoods with increased potential to capture and utilize solar energy.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of structural vibration reduction control, but may also be used as a reference source for more advanced topics.

PCM Enhanced Building Envelopes presents the latest research in the field of thermal energy storage technologies that can be applied to solar heating and cooling with the aim of shifting and reducing building energy demand.

This book is the second edition of Numerical methods for diffusion phenomena in building physics: a practical introduction originally published by PUCPRESS (2016).

This book highlights the significance of using sustainable energy to prevent the deterioration of our planet using heat pumps.

This book presents the findings of a three-year study on urban heat in Doha, Qatar, and discusses guidelines and strategies for planning agencies to consider in the context of moderating temperatures to provide pedestrians with greater access to outdoor spaces and greater choice in modes of transport.

This book opens up new ways to develop mathematical models and optimization methods for interdependent energy infrastructures, ranging from the electricity network, natural gas network, district heating network, and electrified transportation network.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

This book examines bioclimatic design with a focus on the application of climate adaptability in the design of future buildings and renovation of existing energy-efficient buildings.

This book, based on the research experience and outcomes of a group of international contributors, addresses a range of advanced energy efficiency technologies and their applications in solar heating, cooling and power generation, while also providing solutions for tackling recurring low efficiency problems in today's systems.

This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based, provides detailed information on the lighting hardware available today and gives guidance for the design of interior lighting installations resulting in good visual performance and comfort, alertness and health.

This book provides a comprehensive, hands-on approach to bioclimatic building design in Africa.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in building industry.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

This book sheds light on environmental control in buildings from the 17th century onwards.

The book focuses on design and computational issues related to fixtures and armatures in hydronic heating installations, especially regulation valves, their selection, operating principles, types and construction.

This book presents cutting-edge work on the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of buildings, examining EU policies, regulations and technologies for complex systems such as passive buildings, sustainable buildings and, as part of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) requirements.

This is the foremost guide to hydraulically designing sprinkler systems for commercial and residential buildings.