Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference (Energy Pocket Reference)

Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a-glance tables and diagrams, equations, and more, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference is a handy resource for architects, engineers and students. Coverage includes: definitions load determinants and Responses (including world wide biomes and climates, building metabolism and response, thermal sources and sinks, passive building responses to sources and sinks, tuning the building to the environment, optimizing insulation and thermal mass for comfort) contextual aspects (including microclimate and siting, temperatures, humidity, wind, radiation and comfort parameters passive components (including building envelope, passive solar terminology, orientation, apertures and glazing, thermal storage, thermal control and materials design tools (including sun path diagrams, sun peg diagrams, air flow relationships, thermal modelling and life cycle design specific functions (including passive heating, passive cooling and ventilation, natural lighting, passive water heating, resource collection and integrated design).

Science & Math

Bainbridge, David A.

Haggard, Ken

Aljilani, Rachel

Biological Sciences

Routledge

Fractal Architecture: Design for Sustainability fills the gap between concepts of sustainability and the practice of environmental design. It is based on the assumption that sustainability and environmental design are not just industrial era (Modernist) design in green clothing, but a whole new direction with its own philosophy, techniques and expression. While this book is radical in the amount of change it calls for in environmental design professions and practice, it is conservative in emphasizing the traditional concerns of designers with geometry, history and aesthetics. Great effort has been made to integrate the text and graphics of this book in the spirit of holism inherent in sustainability.

Fractal Architecture: Design for Sustainability

Cooper, Polly

Mathematics

BookSurge Publishing

New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials―no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce more energy and other resources than they use.

Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows

Bainbridge, David

Technology

Chelsea Green Publishing

Our pocket reference books provide a wealth of practical information at your fingertips, whenever you need it. Rich in background detail, at-a-glance tables and diagrams, equations, and more, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference is a handy resource for architects, engineers and students. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li>definitions</li> <li>load determinants and Responses (including world wide biomes and climates, building metabolism and response, thermal sources and sinks, passive building responses to sources and sinks, tuning the building to the environment, optimizing insulation &amp; thermal mass for comfort)</li> <li>contextual aspects (including microclimate and siting, temperatures, humidity, wind, radiation and comfort parameters</li> <li>passive components (including building envelope, passive solar terminology, orientation, apertures and glazing, thermal storage, thermal control and materials </li> <li>design tools (including sun path diagrams, sun peg diagrams, air flow relationships, thermal modelling and life cycle design</li> <li>specific functions (including passive heating, passive cooling and ventilation, natural lighting, passive water heating, resource collection and integrated design).</li>
</ul>

Business & Money

Economics

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