NEW! A HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

Fri, 26 Sep 08 13:06:58 -0700

A HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ENERGY, HEALTH AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS

The combined challenges of health, comfort, climate change and energy security cross the boundaries of traditional building disciplines. This authoritative collection focusing mostly on energy and ventilation provides the current and next generation of building engineering professionals with what they need to work closely with many disciplines to meet these challenges. "A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering" covers: how to design, engineer and monitor a building in a manner that minimises the emissions of greenhouse gases; how to adapt the environment, fabric and services of existing and new buildings to climate change; and, how to improve the environment in and around buildings to provide better health, comfort, security and productivity, and provides crucial expertise on monitoring the performance of buildings once they are occupied. The authors explain the principles behind built environment engineering, and offer practical guidance through international case studies.This work offers highly practical coverage of design, engineering, adaptation and monitoring of sustainable buildings.

Written by leading international experts, it is an essential toolkit for building engineers and advanced students.

CONTENTS:
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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX BUILT ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS
Setting the Scene (Dejan Mumovic and Mat Santamouris)
Chapter 1: Building Sustainable Communities (Gemma Moore, Irene Perdikogianni, Alan Penn, Meg Adams)

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PART TWO: ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Energy Efficiency and Thermal Envelope (Jurij Krope, Darko Goričanec)
Chapter 2: Energy Monitoring and Labelling (Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Vincenzo Corrado)
Chapter 3: Energy Modelling (Pieter de Wilde, Godfried Augenbroe)
Chapter 4: Carbon Reduction in Buildings (Ian Ward)
Chapter 5: Renewable Energy Sources and the City (Mark Barrett)
Chapter 6: Heat Pumps in City Centre Buildings (Djordje Kozic, Darko Goricanec)
Chapter 7: Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings (Christina Diakaki, Denia Kolokotsa)
Case Study A: Energy and Environmental Monitoring (Alex Summerfield, Hector Altamirano-Medina, Dejan Mumovic)
Case Study B: Energy Modelling (David Johnston)
Case Study C: Energy Efficient Refurbishment of Buildings (Mark Schroeder, Dieter Wolff)

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PART THREE: BUILDINGS AND ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
Chapter 1: Urban Climate – impacts of energy use, comfort and health (Michael Davies, Philip Steadman, Tadj Oreszczyn)
Chapter 2: Air Pollution and Urban Built Environment (Dejan Mumovic, James Milner)
Chapter 3: Ventilation, Thermal Comfort, Health and Productivity (Pawel Wargocki)
Chapter 4: Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Modelling (Ian Ridley)
Chapter 5: Moisture Control in Buildings (Hugo Hens)
Chapter 6: Natural Ventilation in City Centre Buildings (Dejan Mumovic, Oliver Wilton, Sung Min Hong)
Chapter 7: Mechanical and Mixed Mode Ventilation in City Centre Buildings (Jarek Kurnitski, Olli Seppänen)
Chapter 8: Climate Change and Building Design (Steve Sharples, Susan Lee)
Chapter 9: Sustainable Cooling Strategies (Thomas Lakkas, Dejan Mumovic)
Case Study A: Indoor Air Quality in City Centre Buildings (Katerina Niachou, Mat Santamouris, Iro Livada)
Case Study B: Indoor Air Quality and Health (Marcella Ucci, David Crowther, Steve Pretlove, Phillip Biddulph, Tadj Oreszczyn, Toby Wilkinson, Glenis Scadding, Barbara Hart, Dejan Mumovic)
Case Study C: Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Modelling (Zarko Stevanovic, Dejan Mumovic, Miroslava Kavgic)

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PART FOUR: OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS
Introduction
Chapter 1: Post-occupancy Evaluation of Buildings (John Palmer)
Chapter 2: Occupant Behaviour and Energy Use (Alex Summerfield, Tadj Oreszczyn, Ayub Pathan, Sung Hong)
Case Study A: Natural Ventilation of Auditoria: three case studies (Malcolm Cook, Alan Short)
Case Study B: Naturally Ventilated Building in a City Centre (Birgit Painter, Malcolm Cook)
Case Study C: Impact of an Energy Refurbishment Programme in Chile: More than energy savings. (Eugenio Collados, Gabriela Armijo)

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Editors:

Dr Dejan Mumovic is a Lecturer in Environmental Design and Engineering at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL), and a member of the Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) research group. Dejan is a cofounder of two specialist groups: IBPSA-England and CIBSE School Design Group.

Dr Mat Santamouris is an Associate Professor of Energy Physics at University of Athens and Visiting Professor to the School of Architecture, Low Energy Unit at University of North London, UK.

CONTRIBUTORS (in alphabetical order):

Dr Mags Adams, University of Salford, UK
Hector Altamirano-Medina, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Gabriela Armijo, Central University of Chile, Chile
Professor Godfried Augenbroe, Georgia Tech University, USA
Dr Mark Barrett, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Phillip Biddulph, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Eugenio Collados, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile
Dr Malcolm Cook, IESD, De Montfort University, UK
Dr Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Technical University of Turin, Italy
Professor Vincenzo Corrado, Technical University of Turin, Italy
Dr David Crowther, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Michael Davies, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Christina Diakaki, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
Dr Darko Goricanec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr Barbara Hart, The Royal Agricultural College, UK
Professor Hugo Hens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Sung Hong, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Sung Ming Hong, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr David Johnston, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Miroslava Kavgic, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Denia Kolokotsa, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
Professor Djordje Kozic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Professor Jurij Krope, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr Jarek Kurnitski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Thomas Lakkas, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Susan Lee, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Iro Livada, University of Athens, Greece
Dr James Milner, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Dejan Mumovic, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Gemma Moore, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Katerina Niachou, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Birgit Painter, IESD, De Montfort University, UK
John Palmer, Faber Maunsell, UK
Ayub Pathan, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Alan Penn, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Irini Perdikogianni, Space Syntax Limited, London, UK
Dr Steve Pretlove, Kingston University, UK
Dr Ian Ridley, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Mat Santamouris, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Steve Sharples, University of Sheffield, UK
Professor Alan Short, Short & Associates Architects, UK
Dr Glenis Scadding, Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK
Mark Schroeder, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Olli Seppanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Professor Philip Steadman, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Professor Zarko Stevanovic, Vinca, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr Alex Summerfield, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Dr Marcella Ucci, The Bartlett, University College London, UK
Ian Ward, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Pawel Wargocki, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr Pieter de Wilde, Plymouth University, UK
Toby Wilkinson, University of Cambridge, UK
Oliver Wilton, WW Studio, Brighton, UK

IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2009

Sat, 06 Sep 08 04:59:34 -0700

IBPSA Building Simulation 2009

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

27th - 30th July

Call for abstracts for BS'09

Abstracts may be submitted via our website at http://www.bs2009.org.uk

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is September 30 th, 2008.

IBPSA will hold its 11th bi-annual international conference, the leading international conference in building performance simulation, in summer 2009 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, has an unrivalled choice of museums, theatres, parks, science centre and shopping, set within some of the finest Victorian architecture in Europe. In addition, Glasgow has a worldwide reputation as a welcoming city and is firmly established and experienced as a major centre for conferences and international events.

The conference organizers are seeking high quality papers and will limit the number of peer-reviewed oral presentations. Submissions will therefore be rigorously peer-reviewed. Simulation-based papers on the following themes are welcomed:

1. advances in building physics

2. human aspects of the indoor environment

3. building services

4. commissioning and operation

5. energy capture and conversion

6. advances in applications

7. validation and calibration

8. software issues

9. simulation in design practice

10. regulation/code compliance

11. application day case studies

Abstracts should be in plain text and no more than 500 words. They should describe clearly the research objectives and new knowledge arising from the research.

One day of the conference will be devoted to practical applications, particularly focusing on simulation in practice with illustrative case studies. Therefore, a limited number of additional papers are invited in order to enable practitioners to demonstrate the benefits flowing from the recent upsurge in the use of simulation in building design. If you wish to contribute such a paper, please ensure it is marked as an application day case study in the abstract submission.

Key Dates

September 30th 2008 Abstracts due

November 1st 2008 Abstract acceptance

February 1st 2009 Full papers due

April 1st 2009 Paper reviews provided to authors

April 15th 2009 Deadline for revised paper

April 22nd 2009 Deadline for final formatted papers

May 1st 2009 Final acceptance notification

May 15th 2009 Deadline for conference pre-registration

July 27th - 30th 2009 BS '09 Conference

Conference accommodation will be offered on campus in student residences and in nearby hotels. This can be booked through the website.

Student support will again be available - details will be announced later on the website.

We look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow and are sure you will enjoy the experience.

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NEW! A HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2009