House Rating Schemes - From Energy to Comfort Base

"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes.The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

List of contents

Introduction.- A review of Building Rating Schemes.- Thermal comfort as a base for rating buildings.- Modeling efficient building design: Efficiency for low energy or no energy?.- Assembling an energy base rating and a comfort base rating scheme.

Summary

"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes.

The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Kordjamshidi
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2011
• EAN: 9783642157899
• ISBN: 978-3-642-15789-9
• No. of pages: 146
• Weight: 410 g
• Illustrations: X, 146 p.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology; Green Energy and Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, Sustainability, Architectural structure & design, Sustainable Development, energy systems, engineering, Environmental Social Sciences, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Grids and Networks, Construction Management, buildings, Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable energy resources, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Construction industry—Management, Building—Superintendence, Construction superintendence, Building skills & trades, Building construction & materials, Building Types and Functions