Jane Powell, Jennifer Monahan, Chris Foulds

Building Futures (eBook, PDF)

Managing energy in the built environment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the important contribution of the built environment in the reduction of household energy consumption and in meeting the urgent challenge of the 2050 carbon reduction target. It examines trends in energy demand in UK and Europe across energy sectors for industry, commercial, domestic and transport, and explores the reasons for change in energy use through practice and technology. It includes a broad geographical range of case studies the UK, Europe and further afield, with particular focus on Passivhaus in Germany, low energy houses in Scandinavia and Dongtan Eco city in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317379829
• Artikelnr.: 44169831

Autorenporträt

Jane Powell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. She teaches and has research interests in the energy efficiency of buildings and low-carbon energy, in addition to environmental evaluation methodologies such as lifecycle assessment.

Jennifer Monahan is an Associate Tutor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. She has research interests in energy efficiency of buildings and low-carbon construction.

Chris Foulds is a Senior Research Fellow in the Consumption & Change theme of Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute. He is an environmental social scientist with a keen interest in the role of building occupants and professionals in the transition to a low-carbon building stock.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Energy use in the built environment 2. Reducing energy demand 3.
Lifecycle energy and carbon in buildings 4. Energy performance gap 5.
Retrofitting buildings 6. The Passivhaus energy efficiency standard 7.
Ventilating the building stock 8. Building futures