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An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.

This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.
Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.

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ISBN13:9780470945780
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:432
Druk:3

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<p>WHAT′S IN THE SWL PRINTED</p>
<p>I NAVIGATION 20</p>
<p>SWL Printed Contents</p>
<p>SWL Electronic Contents</p>
<p>Additional Navigation Methods</p>
<p>II USING SUN, WIND &amp; LIGHT 50</p>
<p>Buildings and Energy Use</p>
<p>Design Decision Chart for Net–Zero</p>
<p>III SYNERGIES 78</p>
<p>7 essential themes for net–zero design</p>
<p>IV BUNDLES 94</p>
<p>Bundles Explained</p>
<p>Selecting Bundles and Making Your Own</p>
<p>Some Fundamental Bundles: 9 sets strategy sets for high–performance design</p>
<p>V FAVORITE DESIGN TOOLS, condensed 194</p>
<p>VI FAVORITE DESIGN STRATEGIES, condensed 216</p>
<p>VII HIGH–PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS 250</p>
<p>6 techniques for net–zero energy and carbon–neutral design</p>
<p>APPENDICES A–E 293</p>
<p>INDICES 339</p>

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