House Rating Schemes
Maria Kordjamshidi
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Description for House Rating Schemes
Hardback. Written for students, architects and researchers, this volume reviews the current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in countries across the globe. The text explores various approaches for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. Series: Green Energy and Technology. Num Pages: 146 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: AMC; KNBT; RNU; THRB; TNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal ... Read more
"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Series
Green Energy and Technology
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642157899
SKU
V9783642157899
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Ref
99-15
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