| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About this book; List of contributors; Foreword by Amory B. Lovins; Preface; Unit conversions: Metric/US; 1 Introduction: climate change and the built environment; 2 Thermal and occupant comfort; 3 Introduction to building physics: implications for opaque and transparent building components; 4 Lighting and daylighting for visual comfort and energy efficiency; 5 Hygrothermal simulation (transient heat and moisture assessment); 6 Heat and hot water generation for domestic buildings |
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7 Heating and cooling of nonresidential Passivhaus buildings using passive and environmental energy strategies8 Ventilation concepts: planning and implementation; 9 Renewable power technologies; 10 Project and site management, contractual arrangements and quality assurance; 11 The economics of Passivhaus construction; 12 Passivhaus EnerPHit and EnerPHit+i -- case studies; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecological houses.
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Dwellings -- Energy conservation.
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Dwellings -- Energy conservation
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Ecological houses
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLeod, Robert S
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| ISBN |
9781317536901 |
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1317536908 |
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