Energy efficiency

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook explains the business case for property professionals to pursue solar projects.

The refurbishment of existing buildings is a crucial yet often neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings.

Explica los mecanismos para la implantación, mantenimiento y mejora de un sistema de gestión de la energía, además de destacar las novedades de las normas relacionadas con auditorías energéticas.

Fundamentals of Building Performance Simulation pares the theory and practice of a multi-disciplinary field to the essentials for classroom learning and real-world applications.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial investment.

Passive and active solar strategies together with the adoption of energy conservation measures and the integration of new materials and technologies can lead to a dramatic reduction of 75-90 per cent in the energy consumption of the buildings.

Although it is generally accepted that the climate is changing for the worse and that human activities are a major contributing factor in that change, there is still only marginal response to the challenge posed by climate change.

Buildings can breathe naturally, without the use of mechanical systems, if you design the spaces properly.

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study.

Design-Tech is an indispensable, holistic approach to architectural technology that shows you in hundreds of drawings and tables the why as well as the how of building science, providing you with a comprehensive overview.

In 'Strahlende Zukunft' betreten wir eine alternative Chronik der Energieumwälzung, die an den Ereignissen von Fukushima anknüpft und nicht in der Weisheit des Nachhineins erzählt, sondern in der Erzählung dessen, was hätte sein können.

This book covers innovative technologies and approaches for improvement of technical and economic parameters of functional geotechnical systems.

Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Buildings account for over one third of global energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

The integration of photovoltaics (PV) into buildings goes beyond energy saving by providing a clean and elegant way of actually generating electricity.

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament.

Transforming our energy supplies to be more sustainable is seen by many to be the biggest challenge of our times.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century.

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions.

This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the social housing sector in the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

This book covers innovative technologies and approaches for improvement of technical and economic parameters of functional geotechnical systems.

This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe.

Since its inception some 40 years ago, petroleum-specific taxation in the UK has been subject to numerous modifications.

For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels.

Whilst sustainability is already an important driver in the new building sector, this book explores how those involved in refurbishment of commercial building are moving this agenda forward.

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue.

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating.

The embedding of energy efficiency in the management of individual housing organisations is crucial for the realization of current ambitious energy efficiency policies.

Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping.

What do we mean by net zero energy?

This book explores the concepts and role of green computing and its recent developments for making the environment sustainable.

This Third Edition of Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification extends the presentation of fundamentals of Energy Integration, Water Integration and CO2 management into Process Integration for waste valorisation and advanced Water Integration involving water mains and considering multiple contaminants.

Volume 2 of Advances in Carbon Management Technologies has 21 chapters.

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With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

Wood Pellet Heating Systems is a comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of wood pellet heating technology.

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study.

The growth of power electronics, centering on inverters and converters as its key system topology, has accelerated recently due to the demand for efficient power conversion.

Sustainability is a key issue and its impact on the construction industry, as one of the major users of the Earth's resources, is starting to take hold.

Five case studies on mitigation actions (MAs) in developing countries illustrate the rich diversity of climate action.

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social impacts.

Design-Tech is an indispensable, holistic approach to architectural technology that shows you in hundreds of drawings and tables the why as well as the how of building science, providing you with a comprehensive overview.

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.

The Environmental Design Pocketbook 2nd ed places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips.

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 addresses the needs of researchers on the fundamental level as well as those with more advanced knowledge of microgrids and their evolution.