Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects
Product ID: 10090887
Sustainable environmental control through building design Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the industry standard text on environmental control systems with the emphasis on sustainable design. By detailing the many factors that contribute to the comfort in a building, this book helps architects minimize mechanical systems and energy usage over the life of the building by siting, building design, and landscaping to maximize natural heating, cooling, and lighting. This new fourth edition includes new information on integrated design strategies and designing for the Tropics. Resources include helpful case studies, checklists, diagrams, and a companion website featuring additional cases, an image bank, and instructor materials. Designing buildings that require less energy to heat, cool, and light means allowing the natural energy of the sun and wind to reduce the burden on the mechanical and electrical systems. Basic design decisions regarding size, orientation, and form have a great impact on the sustainability, cost, and comfort of a building. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting provides detailed guidance for each phase of a design project. Readers will: Understand the concept of sustainability as applied to energy sources Review the basic principles of thermal comfort, and the critical role of climate Learn the fundamentals of solar responsive design, including active and passive solar systems as well as photovoltaics Discover how siting, architectural design, and landscaping can reduce the requirements for mechanical and electrical systems In sustainable design, mechanical, and electrical systems should be used to only accomplish what the architect could not by the design of the building itself. With this in mind, designers require a comprehensive understanding of both the properties of energy and the human factors involved in thermal comfort. Heating, Cooling, and Lighting is the complete, industry-leading resource for designers interested in sustainable environmental control. Review: Heating, Cooling, Lighting - Got this for studying the ARE. It's a great book, but I think it's too dense for using it for the Architectural Exams. However, if MEP is your passion you will love this book. Review: A must have resource! - Probably the best energy efficiency book I've ever bought. Liked the third edition so much last spring and bought it then, even though I knew the 4th edition was coming out in the fall (and I bought it too). Clear, beautifully illustrated with great explanations of sometimes more complex topics. A great reference for not only architects, but engineers also (like me). A must have for anyone interested in sustainable design.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 109 Reviews |
M**I
Heating, Cooling, Lighting
Got this for studying the ARE. It's a great book, but I think it's too dense for using it for the Architectural Exams. However, if MEP is your passion you will love this book.
R**E
A must have resource!
Probably the best energy efficiency book I've ever bought. Liked the third edition so much last spring and bought it then, even though I knew the 4th edition was coming out in the fall (and I bought it too). Clear, beautifully illustrated with great explanations of sometimes more complex topics. A great reference for not only architects, but engineers also (like me). A must have for anyone interested in sustainable design.
E**E
easy to read and easy to understand
if you are an building junkie like me this will really get you off to a good start. Gives you the basics and fundamentals on buildings. go get this for class or if you are contractor. It really is like a mini bible for heating cooling and lighting. go get it
P**T
Save Money; Get the PDF
The book arrived as described and it of good quality. But if you are not required to have the physical text, there is a free PDF copy available online. You can get it just by searching the title and PDF. Don’t spend your money if you don’t need to. Cheers.
B**Y
A Decent Primer
This is a decent undergraduate level resource. It is a functional primer on many of the basics of sustainability including shading principles and heat transfer. The author encourages an improved understanding of many natural principles which were neglected in twentieth century building design. Interestingly, I have no desire to live in an elevated Japanese paper house in the hot humid climate of Chicago, and see a great deal of merit in mechanical cooling in hot humid climates. Never the less I think its a laudable goal for many of us to come to terms with these "natural" ways of dealing with climate.
A**N
Very Useful
Very useful for design strategies.
D**4
Good reading
This is a very easy to read book. I wish I had a copy while I was in school.
A**S
Content is great, build quality is terrible
This book is full of great knowledge and easy to read, but the build quality of the hardcover is atrocious. mine has dozens of pages fused together, and the "color plates" at the center of the book were not even slightly stapled into the binding so they come completely loose from the book. By far the worst QC I've seen in a textbook.
J**A
And it has a lot of good information about that
Miss color in some pictures. Very American but an ok book so far. Using it in a course called Energy use and thermal comfort in buildings! And it has a lot of good information about that! Not the most reasent facts, but in all worth reading (mostley for this class I'm taking then) !!!
L**O
molto buono
Molto buono contentatevi non è possibile chiedere ad un cliente un lavoro così dettagliato per tutte le recensioni dei libri acquistati
H**X
What every architect student needs!
Gift for our architecture student. Excellent hard cover necessity for architects!
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