Heating, Cooling, Lighting - Sustainable Design Methods for Architects

Sustainable environmental control through building designHeating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design. By detailing the many factors that contribute to the comfort in a building, this book helps architects minimize mechanical systems and energy usage over the life of the building by siting, building design, and landscaping to maximize natural heating, cooling, and lighting. This new fourth edition includes new information on integrated design strategies and designing for the Tropics. Resources include helpful case studies, checklists, diagrams, and a companion website featuring additional cases, an image bank, and instructor materials.Designing buildings that require less energy to heat, cool, and light means allowing the natural energy of the sun and wind to reduce the burden on the mechanical and electrical systems. Basic design decisions regarding size, orientation, and form have a great impact on the sustainability, cost, and comfort of a building. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting provides detailed guidance for each phase of a design project. Readers will:* Understand the concept of sustainability as applied to energy sources* Review the basic principles of thermal comfort, and the critical role of climate* Learn the fundamentals of solar responsive design, including active and passive solar systems as well as photovoltaics* Discover how siting, architectural design, and landscaping can reduce the requirements for mechanical and electrical systemsIn sustainable design, mechanical, and electrical systems should be used to only accomplish what the architect could not by the design of the building itself. With this in mind, designers require a comprehensive understanding of both the properties of energy and the human factors involved in thermal comfort. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the complete, industry-leading resource for designers interested in sustainable environmental control.

List of contents

FOREWORD TO THE FOURTH EDITION xiEdward MazriaFOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION xiiiJames Marston FitchPREFACE xvACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii1 HEATING, COOLING, AND LIGHTING AS FORM-GIVERS IN ARCHITECTURE 1Key Ideas of Chapter 1 192 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND ENERGY SOURCES 21Key Ideas of Chapter 2 463 BASIC PRINCIPLES 49Key Ideas of Chapter 3 624 THERMAL COMFORT 63Key Ideas of Chapter 4 765 CLIMATE 79Data Tables for Climate Regions, United States 96Key Ideas of Chapter 5 1376 SOLAR GEOMETRY 139Key Ideas of Chapter 6 1647 PASSIVE SOLAR 165Key Ideas of Chapter 7 1958 PHOTOVOLTAICS AND ACTIVE SOLAR 197Key Ideas of Chapter 8 2289 SHADING AND LIGHT COLORS 229Key Ideas of Chapter 9 28310 PASSIVE COOLING 285Key Ideas of Chapter 10 32411 SITE DESIGN, COMMUNITY PLANNING, AND LANDSCAPING 325Key Ideas of Chapter 11 36312 LIGHTING 365Key Ideas of Chapter 12 39813 DAYLIGHTING 399Key Ideas of Chapter 13 45014 ELECTRIC LIGHTING 453Key Ideas of Chapter 14 48215 THE THERMAL ENVELOPE: KEEPING WARM AND STAYING COOL 483Key Ideas of Chapter 15 52616 MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT FOR HEATING AND COOLING 529Key Ideas of Chapter 16 57417 TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE 577Key Ideas of Chapter 17 59418 RECOMMENDED LOW ENERGY CASE STUDIES 59519 CHECKLIST FOR DESIGNING INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS 599APPENDIX A HORIZONTAL SUN-PATH DIAGRAMS 605APPENDIX B VERTICAL SUN-PATH DIAGRAMS 617APPENDIX C SOLAR ALTITUDE AND AZIMUTH ANGLES 629APPENDIX D METHODS FOR ESTIMATING THE HEIGHT OF TREES, BUILDINGS, ETC. 635APPENDIX E SUNDIALS 639APPENDIX F SUN-PATH MODELS 649APPENDIX G THE WATER TABLE FOR VENTILATION STUDIES 659APPENDIX H SITE EVALUATION TOOLS 661APPENDIX I HELIODONS 669APPENDIX J TABLES OF R-VALUES 675APPENDIX K RESOURCES 679APPENDIX L CONVERSION FACTORS BETWEEN THE INCH-POUND (I-P) SYSTEM AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI) 683BIBLIOGRAPHY 687INDEX 693

Summary

Sustainable environmental control through building design Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design.

Product details

• Authors: Norbert Lechner, Norbert M. Lechner
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2014
• EAN: 9781118582428
• ISBN: 978-1-118-58242-8
• No. of pages: 720
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture