Energy efficiency

The laws of thermodynamics-and their implications for architecture-have not been fully integrated into architectural design.

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.

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

Ziel dieses Buches:Das Buch "Solarthermie - Eine nachhaltige Energiegewinnung für Haushalte und Unternehmen" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden für alle, die sich für den Einsatz von Solarthermie zur Heizung und Warmwasserbereitung interessieren.

Designbuild Education adopts the intellectual framework of American Pragmatism, which is a theory of action, to investigate architects' compelling urge to build and how that manifests in collegiate designbuild programs.

Product-driven process design - from molecule to enterprise provides process engineers and process engineering students with access to a modern and stimulating methodology to process and product design.

What do we mean by net zero energy?

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.

This book explores smart grid from a social perspective, for advanced students, academic researchers, and energy professionals.

The laws of thermodynamics-and their implications for architecture-have not been fully integrated into architectural design.

Is it okay to use potting compost?

PV and the NEC presents a straightforward explanation of the National Electrical Code (NEC) in everyday language.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT.

This book brings to light a diverse range of innovative architectural design studio methodologies formulated to educate future graduates to combat the climate crisis through carbon neutral design.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

Inspiration is everywhere when you stop to not just smell but watch the roses.

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors .

First published in 2013.

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text.

The Heat Pump Planning Handbook contains practical information and guidance on the design, planning and selection of heat pump systems, allowing engineers, designers, architects and construction specialists to compare a number of different systems and options.

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities.

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.

Despite recent improvements in energy efficiency being made in new build, it is important that the existing commercial building sector also take action to meet emission reduction targets.

Product-driven process design - from molecule to enterprise provides process engineers and process engineering students with access to a modern and stimulating methodology to process and product design.

Este libro aborda los principales conceptos que se utilizan en la actualidad en la aplicación e implementación de un sistema de gestión de la energía y en la realización de auditorías energéticas en el sector del transporte.

Proven Solutions for Maximizing Energy Efficiency in Today's Industrial SystemsThis practical guide features ten self-contained chapters that thoroughly analyze each component in large-scale industrial facilities and lay out best practices for reducing energy consumption and optimizing performance.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

Governments, big business and communities are coming under increased pressure to develop low carbon energy supply technologies.

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

Create cost-effective, energy-efficient, delicious dishes using just your microwave ovenPING!

Reduce energy costs and combat climate change with ISO 50001ISO 50001:2018, the international standard for energy management, provides a framework for organisations both large and small to manage and reduce their energy usage and associated costs.

In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America's energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin.

"Einfach ist schwieriger als kompliziert.

Deine neue Solaranlage ist Vertrauenssache.

Wiederaufladbare Batterien, kurz "Akkus", werden in vielen Geräten eingesetzt - im Hobby, in der Freizeit sowie im täglichen Leben sind sie nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Wie kann ich alternative Energien sinnvoll im Haus nutzen?

Auf experimentelle Art erfahren Sie, wie typische und häufig vorkommende Fehler in elektronischen Geräten systematisch aufgespürt werden können.

Wie lassen sich Strom- und Heizkosten sparen, ohne ständig darüber nachdenken zu müssen, was man wie lange aufdrehen oder einschalten kann und zudrehen oder abschalten muss?

Dieses Buch informiert Sie über die praktischen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten der Solar- und Windenergie in der Freizeit und im Hobby.

Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie Sie anhand verschiedener Experimente, die Hoch- und Höchstspannungen erzeugen, solche Leistungen sicher und gut verpackt sichtbar machen.

Sie wollen Geld sparen und die notwenigen Installationsarbeiten selbst vornehmen?

Hier finden Sie alle wichtigen Tipps und Tricks zur Planung einer photovoltaischen Solardachanlage.

Die Verbraucher stöhnen unter der Last steigender Strompreise.

Arbeitet Ihre Photovoltaikanlage optimal?

Dieses Buch ermöglicht einen Einstieg in die Solartechnik ohne unnötiges Kopfzerbrechen über Grafiken und graue Theorien.

Las claves esenciales para entender los grandes cambios que se avecinan en el mundo de la energía.

Obwohl die Energiewende in erster Linie einen großen und noch nie dagewesenen Prozess der Umgestaltung einleitet, verbirgt sich hinter dieser sichtbaren Veränderung der Landschaften und Städte ein womöglich noch größerer unsichtbarer Prozess des Umlernens.

This smart metering road map summarizes the proposed activities and plans for the Nepal Electricity Authority on the implementation of a smart electricity grid.

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy is one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

This smart metering road map summarizes the proposed activities and plans for the Nepal Electricity Authority on the implementation of a smart electricity grid.