Energy manual : sustainable architecture / Hegger [and three others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser ; Munich : Edition Detail, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783034614542 (e-book)
Uniform titles:
  • Energie-Atlas. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Energy manual : sustainable architecture.DDC classification:
  • 720.472 22
  • 693.832 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.36 .E5313 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part A. Positions : Global change / Chris Luebkeman -- Energy change / Hermann Scheer -- Architecture and sustainability: a difficult relationship / Robert Kaltenbrunner -- Doing things right: on efficiency and sustainability / Manfred Hegger -- Solar architecture / Thomas Herzog -- Planning and building in life cycles / Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz -- Part B. Planning : Fundamentals : Global boundary conditions ; Energy ; Climate and comfort -- Urban space and infrastructure : Land use ; Planning to suit the location ; Infrastructure and technical services -- Building envelope : Maintaining and gaining heat ; Avoiding overheating ; Decentralised ventilation ; Using the daylight ; Generating electricity -- Building services : Sustainable building services ; Heating ; Cooling ; Mechanical ventilation ; Optimising the artificial lighting -- Materials : Heat flow ; Embodied energy ; Materials in the life cycle -- Strategies : Energy concepts ; Politics, legislation, statutory instruments ; Planning process ; Sustainable architecture ; Diagnosis system for sustainable building quality (DSQ) -- Part C. Case studies -- Part D. Appendix : Parameters ; Climate data ; LCA data ; Statutory instruments, directives, standards.
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Translated into English by Gerd H. Söffker, Philip Thrift and Pamela Seidel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part A. Positions : Global change / Chris Luebkeman -- Energy change / Hermann Scheer -- Architecture and sustainability: a difficult relationship / Robert Kaltenbrunner -- Doing things right: on efficiency and sustainability / Manfred Hegger -- Solar architecture / Thomas Herzog -- Planning and building in life cycles / Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz -- Part B. Planning : Fundamentals : Global boundary conditions ; Energy ; Climate and comfort -- Urban space and infrastructure : Land use ; Planning to suit the location ; Infrastructure and technical services -- Building envelope : Maintaining and gaining heat ; Avoiding overheating ; Decentralised ventilation ; Using the daylight ; Generating electricity -- Building services : Sustainable building services ; Heating ; Cooling ; Mechanical ventilation ; Optimising the artificial lighting -- Materials : Heat flow ; Embodied energy ; Materials in the life cycle -- Strategies : Energy concepts ; Politics, legislation, statutory instruments ; Planning process ; Sustainable architecture ; Diagnosis system for sustainable building quality (DSQ) -- Part C. Case studies -- Part D. Appendix : Parameters ; Climate data ; LCA data ; Statutory instruments, directives, standards.

Translation of the 1st German ed. published: München : Institut für internationale Architektur-Dokumentation, 2007.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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