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Green Building Technology Guide: Commercial
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2020
- Editor: Fred Andreas
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 7 9 1 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 8 1 2 4 - 6
Green Building Technology Guide: Commercial presents users with a comprehensive set of tools that allow them to understand, evaluate, design, and execute green building strategie… Read more
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Request a sales quoteGreen Building Technology Guide: Commercial presents users with a comprehensive set of tools that allow them to understand, evaluate, design, and execute green building strategies.
The book includes commentary from expert authors who share clear- and-concise best practices for achieving high-performance building solutions at multiple levels, from basic LEED projects to advanced Zero Net Energy Buildings (ZNEB), exploring all aspects of green building design.
Materials, equipment, systems, methods, and resources are all broken down by CSI format and aligned with USGBC LEED categories, as well as Enterprise Green Communities criteria.
Materials discussed include concrete/fly ash, structural steel, building systems such as green roofs and translucent walls, and energy systems, like building-mounted wind turbines, photovoltaics, and active building envelopes. The green and sustainable technologies presented in this volume showcase newly available and soon-to-be released prototype products and systems.
- Provides information on cutting-edge materials and efficient energy systems
- Presents tactics readers can use to cut costs and compare product attributes with checklists and an online, real-time pricing tool
- Explores tactics that reduce energy use and maintenance needs, while improving environmental performance
- Ideal for design professionals, students, builders, and owners, the text offers resources and information on the newest and highest tech green products and systems available within the marketplace
Energy, Civil and Environmental Engineers and Students; Architects; Building Professionals including Developers, Contractors, Program Planners, Project Planners, Industrial Designers, Project Managers and Construction Managers, Facade Designers and Envelope Engineers; Building Science Educators and Researchers; Interior Designers and Building Specifications’ Experts
Section 1 - Materials
1.01 Concrete/Fly Ash
1.02 Structural Steel
1.03 Flooring
1.04 Interior Paint
1.05 Smart Windows
Section 2 - Building Systems
2.01 Green Roofs
2.02 Passive Solar Cooling
2.03 Advanced Window Wall Systems
2.04 Translucent Walls
2.05 Air Circulation Systems and Stack Effect
Section 3 - Energy Systems
3.01 Building Mounted Wind Turbines
3.02 Wind Power: Micro Technology
3.03 Advances in Photovoltaics
3.04 Algae Living Skin : Architectural Cladding Bioreactor
3.05 Active Building Envelopes
3.06 Vehicle-to-Building (V2B)/Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 1, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124079120
- eBook ISBN: 9780124081246
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Fred Andreas
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Dept of Architecture, CAP, Assistant Research Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Principal Architect, UNiT design studio, p.c.