Environmental Design Of Urban Buildings

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ISBN: 9781902916422 | 1902916425
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/30/2006

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* International experts in the field explore the relationship of building design to the urban setting * Enables building professionals to adopt environmental design strategies in their daily work * Designed as an academic module that can satisfy postgraduate certificate requirements and is suitable for distance learning * Includes a free CD-ROM The importance of an integrated approach in urban design is becoming increasingly apparent. This book explains how to overcome related challenges in environmental design of urban buildings and offers guidance on the use of new materials and techniques and the integration of new philosophies. Supported by the European Commission's SAVE 13 programme, the book includes contributions from experts at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, the Hellenic Open University, Greece, Cambridge Architectural Research and REHVA/University of Ljubljana.

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. x
List of Boxes	p. xix
List of Contributors	p. xxi
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxiii
Environmental Urban Design	p. 1
Introduction: Urban environmental facts today	p. 1
Vernacular urban planning: A lesson from the past?	p. 2
Practical research into urban climatology related to built form	p. 6
Energy consumption and urban spatial structure	p. 7
Energy efficiency and renewable energy potential versus city texture and configuration	p. 19
Research into practice for environmental urban planning and design	p. 24
Energy-efficient urban planning and design versus amenity, equity and aesthetics	p. 27
Overview	p. 29
Architectural Design and Passive Environmental and Building Engineering Systems	p. 36
Introduction	p. 36
The building concept	p. 36
The building design process	p. 37
Passive systems in buildings	p. 38
Environmental Issues of Building Design	p. 46
Introduction	p. 46
Context	p. 47
Site planning	p. 49
Building plan and section	p. 50
Courtyard and atrium spaces	p. 52
Building-use patterns	p. 53
Construction detail	p. 54
Natural lighting	p. 55
Designing for passive solar gains	p. 55
Strategies for natural ventilation	p. 57
Avoiding overheating and increasing comfort	p. 58
Artificial lighting systems	p. 59
Providing heat	p. 59
Services	p. 60
Sustainable Design, Construction and Operation	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
Sustainability and building	p. 63
Sustainable construction techniques and materials	p. 65
Recycling buildings	p. 69
Sustainable construction processes	p. 70
Intelligent Controls and Advanced Building Management Systems	p. 75
Introduction	p. 75
Intelligent buildings	p. 76
Fundamentals of control systems	p. 76
Building management systems	p. 79
Examples of building management systems	p. 86
Urban Building Climatology	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
The urban temperature	p. 96
Urban wind field	p. 100
Urban canyon effect	p. 103
How to improve the urban climate	p. 111
Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Urban Buildings	p. 120
Introduction	p. 120
Physics of heat transfer and rate equations	p. 121
Principles of heat transfer in buildings	p. 123
Applied Lighting Technologies for Urban Buildings	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
Light	p. 147
Human sight and its characteristics	p. 147
Photometric quantities	p. 148
Sources of light	p. 149
Visual comfort requirements	p. 155
Requests with reference to daylighting and the duration of sun exposure for buildings in urban areas	p. 162
Light pollution	p. 164
Lighting and the use of energy in buildings	p. 167
Case Studies	p. 174
Introduction	p. 174
Meletikiki office building	p. 176
Avax office building	p. 183
Ampelokipi residential building	p. 189
Bezigrajski dvor: An energy-efficient settlement in Ljubljana	p. 195
Commercial building with a double facade	p. 200
Euro centre commercial building with atrium	p. 206
Potsdamer Platz: Office and residential development, Berlin, Germany	p. 212
School of Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK	p. 216
Inland Revenue Office Headquarters, Nottingham, UK	p. 220
Guidelines to Integrate Energy Conservation	p. 225
Introduction	p. 225
General issues	p. 226
Design guidelines	p. 232
Indoor Air Quality	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Indoor air quality	p. 246
Sick building syndrome and building-related illness	p. 246
Indoor air quality design	p. 247
Indoor pollutants and pollutant sources	p. 251
International standards of indoor air quality	p. 254
Modelling indoor pollutants	p. 255
Applied Energy and Resource Management in the Urban Environment	p. 264
Introduction	p. 264
Energy sources	p. 265
Energy use in cities	p. 269
Energy efficiency in the urban environment	p. 270
Water resources and management	p. 280
Material flows in cities	p. 283
Economic Methodologies	p. 294
Introduction	p. 294
Economic methodologies	p. 294
Discount techniques	p. 295
Non-discount techniques	p. 300
Integrated Building Design	p. 310
Introduction	p. 310
An integrated building design system	p. 311
Principles of low-energy design	p. 311
Pre-design context	p. 311
Building design	p. 312
Building services	p. 312
The integrated building design system	p. 312
Interrelationships between design parameters	p. 312
Design parameters versus low-energy strategies	p. 314
Design parameters versus environmental systems	p. 315
Design parameters versus energy strategies	p. 315
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