Optimal Design and Retrofit of Energy Efficient Buildings, Communities, and Urban Centers presents current techniques and technologies for energy efficiency in buildings. Cases introduce and demonstrate applications in both the design of new buildings and retrofit of existing structures. The book begins with an introduction that includes energy consumption statistics, building energy efficiency codes, and standards and labels from around the world. It then highlights the need for integrated and comprehensive energy analysis approaches. Subsequent sections present an overview of advanced energy efficiency technologies for buildings, including dynamic insulation materials, phase change materials, LED lighting and daylight controls, Life Cycle Analysis, and more. This book provides researchers and professionals with a coherent set of tools and techniques for enhancing energy efficiency in new and existing buildings. The case studies presented help practitioners implement the techniques and technologies in their own projects.
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<li>Introduces a holistic analysis approach to energy efficiency for buildings using the concept of energy productivity</li>
<li>Provides coverage of individual buildings, communities and urban centers</li>
<li>Includes both the design of new buildings and retrofitting of existing structures to improve energy efficiency</li>
<li>Describes state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies</li>
<li>Presents several cases studies and examples that illustrate the analysis techniques and impact of energy efficiency technologies and controls</li>
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Optimal Design and Retrofit of Energy Efficient Buildings, Communities, and Urban Centers

Engineering & Transportation

Krarti, Moncef

Engineering

Butterworth-Heinemann

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Third Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Updated to include recent advances, this third edition presents strategies and analysis methods for conserving energy and reducing operating costs in residential and commercial buildings. 
The book explores the latest approaches to measuring and improving energy consumption levels, with calculation examples and Case Studies. It covers field testing, energy simulation, and retrofit analysis of existing buildings. It examines subsystems―such as lighting, heating, and cooling―and techniques needed for accurately evaluating them. 
Auditors, managers, and students of energy systems will find this book to be an invaluable resource for their work. 
Explores state-of-the-art techniques and technologies for reducing energy combustion in buildings. 
Presents the latest energy efficiency strategies and established methods for energy estimation. 
Provides calculation examples that outline the application of the methods described. 
Examines the major building subsystems: lighting, heating, and air-conditioning. Addresses large-scale retrofit analysis approaches for existing building stocks. Introduces the concept of energy productivity to account for the multiple benefits of energy efficiency for buildings. 
Includes Case Studies to give readers a realistic look at energy audits. 
Moncef Krarti has vast experience in designing, testing, and assessing innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies applied to buildings. He graduated from the University of Colorado with both MS and PhD in Civil Engineering. Prof. Krarti directed several projects in designing energy-efficient buildings with integrated renewable energy systems. He has published over 3000 technical journals and handbook chapters in various fields related to energy efficiency, distribution generation, and demand-side management for the built environment. Moreover, he has published several books on building energy-efficient systems. Prof. Krarti is Fellow member to the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the largest international professional society. He is the founding editor of the ASME Journal of Sustainable Buildings & Cities Equipment and Systems. Prof. Krarti has taught several different courses related to building energy systems for over 20 years in the United States and abroad. As a professor at the University of Colorado, Prof. Krarti has been managing the research activities of an energy management center at the school with an emphasis on testing and evaluating the performance of mechanical and electrical systems for residential and commercial buildings. He has also helped the development of similar energy efficiency centers in other countries, including Brazil, Mexico, and Tunisia. In addition, Prof. Krarti has extensive experience in promoting building energy technologies and policies overseas, including the establishment of energy research centers, the development of building energy codes, and the delivery of energy training programs in several countries.

Science & Math

Physics

CRC-Press

This Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems is a direct result of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) initiative on Integrated/Sustainable Building Equipment and Systems (ISBES) which has the objective of filling voids in the literature and motivate advances on integrated mechanical systems in buildings. The main focus of this first Volume of the Handbook is on integrated energy systems in the built environment. The handbook includes current state of knowledge in areas of energy equipment and building energy modeling tools, and emerging topics in a wide range of areas encompassing combined heat and power, building energy storage systems, and advanced control strategies for mechanical energy systems in buildings. In addition, the integration of renewable energy and passive cooling and heating strategies as well as the latest advanced techniques to analyze energy demands at the neighborhood and city scales are addressed. The contributors have a diverse set of skills and extensive experience in building energy engineering. The main audience for the Handbook are practitioners building engineers and researchers seeking current and emerging topics in a single source. The first handbook of the ISBES initiative highlights the state-of-the art in energy systems for buildings and has four different but very important focus areas: • Developing and promoting innovative energy efficient design strategies; • Integrating renewable energy generation into buildings and building systems; • Integrating power generation systems into building heating and cooling systems; and • Integrating energy strategies at neighborhood and city-scales.

Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems: Volume 1: Energy Systems

Gonzalez, Jorge E

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

This monograph presents the latest research developments of innovative
building envelope systems. These systems have the ability to allow
building structures to be responsive to changes in outdoor conditions
to ensure comfortable indoor environment and acceptable indoor air
quality at higher energy efficiency compared to conventional systems.
In particular, the monograph overviews the basic operation principles
and thermal performance of four technologies described in three chapters:
(i) dynamic insulation materials that can change its thermal properties
in order to better adapt the building envelope with its outdoor
environment and reduce building heating and cooling thermal loads,
(ii) variable reflectance coatings for application on roofs to lower and
even eliminate the energy penalties associated with reduced solar heat
gains during heating operation of buildings, (iii) single layer breathing
walls to recover energy wasted from heat transmission inside the
walls and provide air ventilation to indoor spaces, and (iv) multi-layer
living walls to apply biomimetric principles and phase-change materials
to adapt building envelope properties with the changing outdoor
conditions.

Advanced Energy Efficient Building Envelope Systems (Technologies for Sustainable Life (Tsl) Concise Monograph)

Zhai, Zhiqiang

Park, Benjamin

Increasing awareness of energy use-and waste-places additional onus on building managers, operators, and engineers, already bearing considerable responsibility for operating cost containment. Fortunately, research, technological developments, and practical experience provide a number of procedures and techniques that can make a significant impact on a building's energy use and expense. Energy Audit of Building Systems offers a systematic, engineering approach to a wide range of measures and opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs in both residential and commercial buildings. The author first provides general tools and procedures for performing building energy audits, including economic analysis, utility rate structures, and building energy simulation. His focus then turns to various subsystems, exploring the techniques and technologies that can reduce energy use or operating costs. Each chapter includes simplified calculation methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of various efficiency measures. Other books on energy efficiency and management are either out of date or offer only qualitative descriptions of energy conservation measures. Energy Audit of Building Systems incorporates the latest energy efficiency technologies, precise calculation procedures, and virtual step-by-step guidelines on evaluating, analyzing, and improving upon energy efficiency in buildings.

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings, Second Edition offers a systematic and practical approaches to design and analyze electrical distribution and utilization systems in buildings. It considers safety and energy efficiency, while also focusing on sustainability and resiliency, to design electrical distribution systems for buildings. 
In addition, the second edition provides guidelines on how to design electrified and energy-resilient buildings. Utilizing energy efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency as important criteria, this book discusses how to meet the minimal safety requirements, set by the National Electrical Code (NEC), to select electrical power systems for buildings. It also considers the impact of building electrification on the design of electrical power systems. The second edition features a new chapter on the optimal design energy-efficient and resilient power systems. In addition, this book includes new end-of-chapter problems, examples, and case studies to enhance and reinforce student understanding. 
This book is intended for senior undergraduate mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering students taking courses in Electrical Systems for Buildings and Design of Building Electrical Systems. 
Instructors will be able to utilize an updated solutions manual and figure slides for their course.

Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Technology

Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Providing a proven set of energy efficiency measures and opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs for existing homes, this volume presents general tools and procedures for performing home weatherization such as insulation improvements as well as methods to reduce air leakage. The author describes several techniques and technologies that can reduce energy use or operating costs, including methods to retrofit existing homes to be net-zero energy buildings. Each chapter contains simplified calculation methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of various efficiency measures. The final chapter offers a series of case studies including examples of weatherized homes.

Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes: An Engineering Approach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Buildings account for almost half of total primary energy use and related greenhouse emissions worldwide. Although current energy systems are improving, they still fall disappointingly short of meeting acceptable limits for efficiency. Well-trained energy auditors are essential to the success of building energy efficiency programs―and Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition updates a bestselling guide to helping them improve their craft. This book outlines a systematic, proven strategy to employ analysis methods to assess the effectiveness of a wide range of technologies and techniques that can save energy and reduce operating costs in residential and commercial buildings. Useful to auditors, managers, and students of energy systems, material is organized into 17 self-contained chapters, each detailing a specific building subsystem or energy efficiency technology. Rooted in established engineering principles, this volume: <ul>
<li>Explores state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to reduce energy consumption in buildings</li> <li>Lays out innovative energy efficiency technologies and strategies, as well as more established methods, to estimate energy savings from conservation measures</li> <li>Provides several calculation examples to outline applications of methods</li> </ul>
To help readers execute and optimize real building energy audits, the author presents several case studies of existing detailed energy audit reports. These include results from field testing, building energy simulation, and retrofit analysis of existing buildings, with recommendations based on sound economic analysis. Examining various subsystems, such as lighting, heating, and cooling systems, it provides an overview of basic engineering methods used to verify and measure actual energy savings attributed to energy efficiency projects. The author presents simplified calculation methods to evaluate their effectiveness and ultimately improve on them. Ideal either as a professional reference or a text for continuing education courses, this book fortifies readers’ understanding of building energy systems, paving the way for future breakthroughs.

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Providing a proven set of energy efficiency measures and opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs for existing homes, this volume presents general tools and procedures for performing home weatherization such as insulation improvements as well as methods to reduce air leakage. The author describes several techniques and technologies that can reduce energy use or operating costs, including methods to retrofit existing homes to be net-zero energy buildings. Each chapter contains simplified calculation methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of various efficiency measures. The final chapter offers a series of case studies including examples of weatherized homes.

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Optimal Design and Retrofit of Energy Efficient Buildings, Communities, and Urban Centers

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Third Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Third Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems: Volume 1: Energy Systems

Advanced Energy Efficient Building Envelope Systems (Technologies for Sustainable Life (Tsl) Concise Monograph)

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes: An Engineering Approach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Energy Audit of Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, Second Edition (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Weatherization and Energy Efficiency Improvement for Existing Homes (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)