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Low energy cooling for sustainable buildings.
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ISBN: 9780470697443 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chichester Chichester Wiley Wiley

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This long-awaited reference guide provides a complete overview of low energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range of existing and emerging sustainable energy technologies in one comprehensive volume. An excellent data source on cooling performance, such as building loads or solar thermal chiller efficiencies, it is essential reading for building services and renewable energy engineers and researchers covering sustainable design.The book is unique in including a large set of experimental results from years of monitoring actual building and energy plants, as well as detailed laboratory and simulation analyses. These demonstrate which systems really work in buildings, what the real costs are and how operation can be optimized – crucial information for planners, builders and architects to gain confidence in applying new technologies in the building sector.Inside you will find valuable insights into:the energy demand of residential and office buildings;facades and summer performance of buildings;passive cooling strategies;geothermal cooling;active thermal cooling technologies, including absorption cooling, desiccant cooling and new developments in low power chillers;sustainable building operation using simulation.Supporting case study material makes this a useful text for senior undergraduate students on renewable and sustainable energy courses. Practical and informative, it is the best up-to-date volume on the important and rapidly growing area of cooling.


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Architecture météorologique.
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ISBN: 9782357330498 235733049X Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris Archibooks

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Animé par une puissante volonté de dépasser la modernité en architecture et de prendre à bras le corps les inquiétantes questions environnementales liées au réchauffement climatique, Architecture météorologique propose un univers radicalement nouveau qui refonde le langage de l'architecture par une subtile intrication entre une pensée théorique et pratique expérimentale. Mobilisant tout autant les sciences de la vie que les traités de météorologie, la littérature fictionnelle de Jules Vernes ou l'œuvre romanesque d'Alain Robbe-Grillet, la philosophie critique de Peter Sloterdijk ou de Giorgio Agamben, Philippe Rahm opère un glissement vers l'invisible en proposant non plus des fonctions et leurs formes, mais des climats à habiter. Travaillant " l'invisible ", c'est-à-dire la température, les variations d'humidité, la lumière, l'air et ses mouvements, il propose une architecture comme remède naturel à respirer, à goûter, à vivre organiquement dont la pensée technique et la poétique sont fondamentalement tournées vers la sensualité et le bien être des habitants. Magnifiquement ancré dans les projets et les installations Architecture météorologique contribue à une réflexion commune sur l'environnement en faisant de la mission climatique de l'architecture, non seulement un objectif mais un moyen pour le projet. (commentaire de l'éditeur:http://www.amazon.fr/Architecture-météorologique-Philippe-Rahm/dp/235733049X)


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Acoustics and sound insulation
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ISBN: 9783764399535 3764399538 9783034614733 303461473X 1299863787 9781299863781 Year: 2009 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland

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Acoustics and protection against noise do not perhaps number among the primary parameters that normally influence the design of a building. Nevertheless, at the very latest when the lecturer in the seminar room cannot be heard, when the noise level in an open-plan office reaches unbearable levels, or when a neighbor's noise deprives you of sleep, it becomes clear just how essential acoustic can be to everyday well-being. it is not just concert halls or the amphitheaters of antiquity that call for acoustic quality; rather, every building, indeed every room, has an acoustic dimension that changes according to the nature of its particular requirements. This practice-oriented volume provides expert planners and architects but also interested developers with practical knowledge on the subject of acoustics in high-rise architecture, beginning with standards on methods of planning and prognosis and moving on to the areas of acoustics of rooms and architecture and noise protection in urban planning. Typologically organized chapters comment on proper approaches to the subject with examples of different types of building such as residential and office buildings, schools, kindergartens, lecture halls, event spaces, and so on, because appropriate acoustic conditions make an essential contribution to the success of a project. Schallschutz und Akustik gehören vielleicht nicht zu den primären Parametern, die den Entwurf eines Gebäudes normalerweise beeinflussen. Doch spätestens wenn man den Vortragenden im Seminarraum nicht versteht, der Geräuschpegel im Großraumbüro unerträgliche Ausmaße annimmt oder das Rumoren des Nachbars einem den Schlaf raubt, wird klar, wie wesentlich die Raumakustik zum alltäglichen Wohlbefinden beiträgt. Nicht nur Konzertsäle oder das antike Amphitheater erheben Anspruch auf akustische Qualität, sondern jedes Gebäude, sogar jeder Raum besitzt eine akustische Dimension, die je nach Funktion in ihren individuellen Anforderungen variiert. Der vorliegende Praxis-Band vermittelt allen Fachplanern, Architekten, aber auch interessierten Bauherren praxisnahe Kenntnisse zum Thema Akustik im Hochbau, angefangen von normativen Regelungen über Planungs- und Prognosemethoden bis hin zu den Bereichen Raumakustik, Bauakustik und Schallschutz im Städtebau. Typologische Kapitel erläutern beispielhaft den richtigen Umgang mit der Thematik an verschiedenen Gebäudearten wie beispielsweise Wohn- und Bürogebäuden, Schulen, Kindergärten, Hörsälen, Veranstaltungsräumen etc. , denn angemessene akustische Bedingungen tragen zum Erfolg eines Projektes massgeblich bei.

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