Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings
A Life Cycle Approach
Umberto Desideri, Francesco Asdrubali, Umberto Desideri, Francesco Asdrubali
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Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings
A Life Cycle Approach
Umberto Desideri, Francesco Asdrubali, Umberto Desideri, Francesco Asdrubali
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Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Life Cycle Approach offers a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the subject with a further focus on the Life Cycle. The editors, renowned academics, invited a diverse group of researchers to develop original chapters for the book and managed to well integrate all contributions in a consistent volume. Sections cover the role of the building sector on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, international technical standards, laws and regulations, building energy efficiency and zero energy consumption buildings, the life cycle assessment of buildings, from construction to decommissioning, and other timely topics.
The multidisciplinary approach to the subject makes it valuable for researchers and industry based Civil, Construction, and Architectural Engineers. Researchers in related fields as built environment, energy and sustainability at an urban scale will also benefit from the books integrated perspective.
- Presents a complete and thorough coverage of energy efficiency in buildings
- Provides an integrated approach to all the different elements that impact energy efficiency
- Contains coverage of worldwide regulation
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Introduction
† University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Section 2 deals with recommendations and standards for efficient buildings. The well-established European and North American legislations are compared with the ones of emerging Asian countries. In this field, the concept of energy efficiency has overcome the pure concept of insulating the building envelope and has produced new approaches in the design of new buildings and in the renovation of existing ones.
- Section 3 deals with the recent concepts of zero-energy and nearly zero-energy buildings, and also with the consolidated concepts of passive houses and bioclimatic architecture. Various sustainability rating systems, which have gained a significant diffusion at the international level, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), are also presented, compared with national tools, and are critically discussed in this section. The readers will appreciate that the concept of sustainability in buildings includes several aspects that require a broad point of view either in the design or in the renovation of buildings and the necessity of integrating different competencies ranging from architecture to engineering of structures, plants and materials, to experts of the exterior and landscape design.
- Section 4 deals with LCA of building materials and components and of entire buildings. Standards, methodologies, tools, indicators and some case studies are presented in order to introduce the reader to the application and utilization of LCA procedures to the building sector.
- Section 5 deals with the various simulation tools which can be used for energy modeling of buildings. The main algorithms are presented and discussed and the main tools classified and described. Validation and calibration procedures are also presented.
- Section 6 deals with the different materials and technologies that can be used to optimize the energy performance of the building envelope. The first chapter deals with the definition of the various physical properties of building materials, including the laboratory methodologies for their measurement; the chapter is completed by useful tables with a review of properties. A second chapter within this section deals with innovative and advanced opaque insulating materials, characterized by a high energy and/or environmental performance, such as PCM (phase change material), VIP (vacuum insulating panels), aerogel, recycled, and natural insulating materials. The subsequent chapters are focused on innovative and advanced glazing materials, such as electrochromic, thermochromic, and selective coatings, on more complex and dynamic building components such as adaptive facades and finally on cool roofs, a simple but smart solution to control the energy demand of buildings during summertime.
- Section 7 is dedicated to building integrated plants. In order to reach the nZEB standard, buildings need to be characterized not only by highly efficient plants, but also by a significant integration of renewable energy systems. Buildings are expected to become energy conversion systems, aiming at using the energy that they produce. Solar systems, ground source heat pumps, cogeneration plants, and efficient heating and cooling plants are some of the topics dealt with in this section.
- Section 8 deals with the increasing role of automation in buildings, in order to achieve a higher energy and environmental performance. Efficient lighting systems, energy and smart management in buildings, as well as measures to reduce water consumption are discussed.
- Finally, Section 9 deals with the energy refurbishment of existing buildings. Methodologies for the energy audit of existing buildings as well as of urban areas are presented. Various technologies for energy-efficient building renovation are presented, including innovative ones, and a cost-benefit analysis of the building renovations is proposed.
Policies, Recommendations and Standards (International Technical Standards, Main Laws and Regulations; EU Directives; Energy Labeling)
European Union Energy Efficiency Policies for Buildings
* Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the author and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.