Energy, People, Buildings

Making sustainable architecture work

Judit Kimpian, Sofie Pelsmakers, Hattie Hartman

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781859465875
• eBook ISBN: 9781000374247
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used in buildings, and how to drive down operational energy use – whether you're an architect, student, client, building services engineer, contractor, building operator or other stakeholder. Focusing on evidence from feedback on buildings in use, it explains what it takes to get them to perform as expected, as well as the reasons why they often fail.

Energy, People, Buildings draws extensively on the findings of studies, UK government-funded building performance evaluations and on original research into seven case studies from across the UK and abroad that have achieved exemplary energy use through building performance feedback.

Providing a clear roadmap to understanding aspects that impact building users' comfort and satisfaction, it also outlines the factors behind energy use and how to track it across the life of a project to ensure that your building performs as intended.

Case studies include: the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool; Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, Colorado; and Carrowbreck Meadow, Norwich.

Featured architects: AHMM, AHR, Architype, Hamson Barron Smith, Haworth Tompkins, Henning Larsen Architects and ZGF Architects.

Index

Note: page numbers in italics refer to figures: page numbers in bold refer to tables; page numbers followed by an asterisk refer to side texts

A

academic collaboration 45

acoustic comfort 24

impact on other comfort parameters 25*

open -plan spaces 24, 59

outdoor noise 55, 73, 80

parameters and indicators affecting 17

acoustic louvres 72, 73, 81, 158,159

adaptive comfort 21, 22, 72, 124

additional services 177

adjacency 57, 59

AHMM

Morelands Rooftop, London 54, 71*, 122-9

White Collar Factory, Old Street, London 83

AHR architects 46*

Al Bahr Towers, Abu Dhabi 71

Keynsham Civic Centre, Keynsham, Somerset 26, 57, 71*, 72, 84, 89, 99,154-61

air recirculation 23, 82

air-change rates 23, 72, 82

air-conditioning 79,117

air-handling units (AHUs) 12

airtightness 66

affect on indoor air quality 65, 82

detailing 66, 68,136

regulatory context 65

Al Bahr Towers, Abu Dhabi 71

architects' involvement 13, 45

Architype

Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich 85, 94, 99*, 103*, 162-9

Wilkinson Primary School, Wolverhampton 46*, 47

B

background ventilation 82, 85

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the authors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 01 The challenge
• 02 Design for people
• 03 Energy basics and benchmarks
• 04 Design for feedback
• 05 Building context and configuration
• 06 Fabric first
• 07 Integrating technical systems
• 08 Control systems and user experience
• 09 Case Studies
• 10 Contract for performance
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Further reading
• References
• Index
• Image credits