Energy Efficiency Solutions For Historic Buildings

Author : Alexandra (EURAC research) Troi,Zeno (Passive House Institute) Bastian
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783038216506

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Energy Efficiency Solutions for Historic Buildings by Alexandra (EURAC research) Troi,Zeno (Passive House Institute) Bastian Pdf

This handbook holistically summarises the principles for the energy retrofitting of historic buildings, from the first diagnosis to the adequately designed intervention: preservation of the historic structure, user comfort, and energy efficiency. The content was developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. The wide range of different expertise, design examples, calculations, and measuring results from eight case studies makes this manual an indispensable tool for all architects, engineers, and energy consultants.

Author : Alexandra Troi,Zeno Bastian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 3038215880

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Energy Efficiency Solutions for Historic Buildings by Alexandra Troi,Zeno Bastian Pdf

Author : Jo Ellen Hensley,Antonio Aguilar (Architect)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 0160897629

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Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings by Jo Ellen Hensley,Antonio Aguilar (Architect) Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Helps property owners, preservation professionals, and stewards of historic buildings make informed decisions when considering energy efficiency improvements to historic buildings. This brief targets primarily small-to medium-size historic buildings, both residential and commercial. However, the general decision-making principles outlined here apply to buildings of any size and complexity. This guidance is provided in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation to ensure that the architectural integrity of the historic property is preserved. Other related products: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sealing and Insulating With Energy Star: Sealing Air Leaks and Adding Attic Insulation is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/055-000-00684-9 Preservation Briefs: 15-23 (2007) is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/024-005-01256-7 The Seismic Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/024-005-01322-9 Renovation & Historic Preservation resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/science-technology/construction-archit..."

Author : Giovanna Franco,Anna Magrini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319526157

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Historical Buildings and Energy by Giovanna Franco,Anna Magrini Pdf

This book provides a methodological framework to set properly the thermal enhancement and energy efficiency in historical buildings during a renovation process. It describes the unique thermal features of historical properties, closely examining how the building materials, structural elements, and state of conservation can impact energy efficiency, including sample calculations and results. It also describes means and aims of several fundamental steps to improve energy efficiency in historical buildings with an experimentation on a case study. This timely text also introduces leading-edge technologies for enhancing the energy performance of historical buildings, including the potential for integration of co- ad tri-generation though micro-turbines, photovoltaics and solar collectors and their compatibility with architectural preservation.

Author : Christian Blank,Hamburg. Denkmalschutzamt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 398154465X

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Improving the Energy Efficiency of Historic Buildings by Christian Blank,Hamburg. Denkmalschutzamt Pdf

Author : Iain McCaig,Robyn Pender,David Pickles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184802536X

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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings by Iain McCaig,Robyn Pender,David Pickles Pdf

This guidance is for anyone who wishes to improve energy efficiency in an historic building. There are many reasons to do this. Improving energy efficiency will lower carbon emissions and fuel bills and often increase comfort. It also might be necessary to ensure that a building complies with legal requirements. More broadly, improving energy efficiency forms a part of the wider objective to achieve a sustainable environment. It is a widely held view that older buildings are not energy-efficient, and must be radically upgraded in order to improve their performance. In reality, the situation is more complicated, and assumptions about poor performance are not always justified. Even so, the energy and carbon performance of most historic buildings can be improved, which will help them remain viable and useful, now and in the future. But striking the right balance between benefit and harm is not easy. The unintended consequences of getting energy efficiency measures wrong (or doing them badly) include: harm to heritage values and significance, harm to human health and building fabric, and failure to achieve the predicted savings or reductions in environmental impact. Getting the balance right (and avoiding unintended consequences) is best done with a holistic approach that uses an understanding of a building, its context, its significance, and all the factors affecting energy use as the starting point for devising an energy-efficiency strategy. This 'whole building approach' ensures that energy-efficiency measures are suitable, robust, well integrated, properly coordinated and sustainable. In addition, this approach provides an effective framework for communication and understanding between the various parties involved in the process. These include assessors, designers, installers and the people who occupy and manage the building. A logical and systematic process of energy planning underpins the 'whole building approach'. This guidance describes the key stages of the process, illuminating any problems that might occur and providing solutions. It also includes checklists of practical measures that might be considered, along with links to sources of more detailed information about how to install these measures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8897323278

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Energy efficiency in historic buildings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernard Flaman,Chandler McCoy
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606066973

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Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings by Bernard Flaman,Chandler McCoy Pdf

This timely volume brings together case studies that address the urgent need to manage energy use and improve thermal comfort in modern buildings while preserving their historic significance and character. This collection of ten case studies addresses the issues surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1928 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar issues. These buildings, international in scope and diverse in type, style, and size, range from the Shulman House, a small residence in Los Angeles, to the TD Bank Tower, a skyscraper complex in Toronto, and from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a cultural venue in Lisbon, to the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, now an office building. Showing ingenuity and sensitivity, the case studies consider improvements to such systems as heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation, and controls. They provide examples that demonstrate best practices in conservation and show ways to reduce carbon footprints, minimize impacts to historic materials and features, and introduce renewable energy sources, in compliance with energy codes and green-building rating systems. The Conserving Modern Heritage series, launched in 2019, is written by architects, engineers, conservators, scholars, and allied professionals. The books in this series provide well-vetted case studies that address the challenges of conserving twentieth-century heritage.

Author : David Pickles,Caroline Cattini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848024169

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Energy Efficiency and Historic Buildings by David Pickles,Caroline Cattini Pdf

This guidance is aimed at homeowners and those managing or renting historic or older domestic buildings who may need to commission an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) or who have received one for an older property that has been purchased or rented. Details are provided on the type of information included in an EPC, how it is calculated, and its limitations as an assessment method when applied to older buildings. The guidance also covers the issues to be taken into account when commissioning an EPC and considering its recommendations. Almost every older building can accommodate some energy improvements without harming either its special interest or environmental performance. However, an appropriate balance needs to be achieved between building conservation and measures to improve energy efficiency if lasting damage is to be avoided both to a building’s character and significance and its fabric.

Author : Dennis R. Landsberg,Ronald Stewart
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873954009

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Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings by Dennis R. Landsberg,Ronald Stewart Pdf

Intended for practical application, this book provides a guide for reducing energy consumption in those buildings that were constructed when the cost of construction, not the cost of operation, was of primary concern. Now that the "Golden Age of Energy" is over, the heating, lighting, and ventilation systems of these buildings must be adapted to present and future economic circumstances. Landsberg and Stewart approach the problem of reducing energy consumption in these buildings by providing users of this book with solutions ranging from simple measures that cost nothing to complex modifications that must be given a cost-benefit analysis. The appendixes define energy basics for those who have little or no engineering background; evaluate alternative energy systems; and analyze the basic economic decisions of making changes in a building's energy consumption. The sample forms used for energy audits of buildings in New York State that can be adapted for use in other states and for private buildings are also included.

Author : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Claes Goeran Granqvist,Bjørn Peter Jelle,Giuseppe Peter Vanoli,Nicola Bianco,Jarek Kurnitski
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780081012277

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Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Claes Goeran Granqvist,Bjørn Peter Jelle,Giuseppe Peter Vanoli,Nicola Bianco,Jarek Kurnitski Pdf

Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting:Materials, Technologies, Optimization and Case Studies provides essential knowledge for civil engineers, architects, and other professionals working in the field of cost-effective energy efficient building retrofitting. The building sector is responsible for high energy consumption and its global demand is expected to grow as each day there are approximately 200,000 new inhabitants on planet Earth. The majority of electric energy will continue to be generated from the combustion of fossil fuels releasing not only carbon dioxide, but also methane and nitrous oxide. Energy efficiency measures are therefore crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the building sector. Energy efficient building retrofitting needs to not only be technically feasible, but also economically viable. New building materials and advanced technologies already exist, but the knowledge to integrate all active components is still scarce and far from being widespread among building industry stakeholders. Emphasizes cost-effective methods for the refurbishment of existing buildings, presenting state-of-the-art technologies Includes detailed case studies that explain various methods and Net Zero Energy Explains optimal analysis and prioritization of cost effective strategies

Author : M.S. Robinson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788770222907

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High-Performance Buildings by M.S. Robinson Pdf

This book provides a blueprint for action for readers making decisions about how to improve the energy efficiency and performance of new or existing buildings. Suitable for both seasoned veterans and new managers, it takes an objective and orderly approach to what is often a complex, costly, and time-consuming process. The book presents fundamental principles illustrated with case studies. It thoroughly covers the topics in a concise, technically accurate way. The book is designed for architects, engineers, and construction managers.

Author : Roger Hunt,Marianne Suhr
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780711239777

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Old House Eco Handbook by Roger Hunt,Marianne Suhr Pdf

How should we go about making old houses energy efficient without devaluing future sustainability or the appeal and character of old homes by the use of inappropriate solutions? This practical and essential guide to retrofitting for energy efficiency seeks to provide answers to this and other the questions homeowners of old houses are asking. Whether your house is medieval and timber-framed or a Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian terrace, it can be made more energy efficient and sustainable, and this practical and comprehensive handbook will show you how. Revised and updated throughout, and with a foreword by Kevin McLoud, Old House Eco Handbook includes chapters on the building envelope; roofs and ceilings; windows and doors; walls; floors; paints; energy, airandwater; plus a brand newchapter on retrofit materials. In association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, this is a must have for owners of old houses looking to make their homes more energy efficient and sustainable. Chapters Include: 1. Old houses can be green 2. Old house to eco house 3. The building envelope 4. Retrofit materials 5. Roofs and ceilings 6. Windows and doors 7. Walls 8. Floors 9. Paints 10. Energy, air and water 11. Old house for the future

Author : Manuela Grecchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030898366

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Building Renovation by Manuela Grecchi Pdf

This book reviews the building renovation process by systematizing the phases of analysis and prior knowledge through a project that not only considers energy savings but also thoroughly examines complex issues, such as defining the correct new functions and answers to new needs. The urgency of climate change and the many problems associated with the excessive use of energy are forcing a reorganization of the renovation process with an interest in reusing existing buildings with a more sustainable approach. The adaptive transformation of old buildings has become a dominant theme in many urban renewal projects. It must necessarily include strategies for energy efficiency, reduced pollutant emissions, improved environmental performance, economic sustainability and cultural identity. The examples selected are intended to provide evidence of good practices in the review and transformation of old buildings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0784412685

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ICSDEC 2012 by Anonim Pdf