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Author: Luis Alberto Sánchez Díez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-05-21
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1471714101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEn el presente libro se plantean modelos para evaluar el potencial de energía en las ciudades para su autoabastecimiento, así como se aplican a las principales ciudades Españolas, opteniendo el potencial de crecimiento y ahorra residencial.
Author: Pablo La Roche
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1304146650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium (BESS) was initiated in 2009 through a partnership of the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University Pomona and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. The symposium was designed to bring together professionals from academia, architecture, engineering and construction, as well as students, to discuss state-of-the-art sustainable building enclosure design.
Author: Pilar Mercader-Moyano
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-17
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 3319514423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment. Furthermore, it offers professionals insights into alternative eco-efficient solutions using new materials to minimize environmental impacts and offers solutions that they can incorporate into their own designs and buildings. It also demonstrates best practices in the cooperation between various universities in Andalusia in Spain and Latin America and many public and private companies and organizations. This book serves as a valuable reference resource for professionals and researchers and provides an overview on the status of investigations to find solutions to improve sustainable development in terms of materials, systems, facilities, neighborhoods, buildings, and awareness of the society involved.
Author: AEIPRO
Publisher: Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO)
Published: 2016-07-28
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLibro de resúmenes del XX Congreso Internacional de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (CIDIP 2016)
Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9811600961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights the concepts and assessment methods of Ecological Footprints. Ecological footprint is defined as, ”a measure of how much area of biologically productive land and water an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates, using prevailing technology and resource management practices”. Developed in 1992 by William Rees, it was the first footprint developed followed by other footprints such as Carbon, Water and Energy. Assessment of Ecological footprints strive for comparing consumption footprint to biological capacity. This book presents five interesting chapters pertaining to the assessment of Ecological Footprints.
Author: Ivan CK Tam
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2021-04-07
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 3039438417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in interesting times in which life as we know it is being threatened by manmade changes to the atmosphere in which we live. On the global scale, concern is focused on climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions, and on a national scale, atmospheric pollution produced by combustion processes is of concern. A possible approach is through the development of new ideas and innovative processes to the current practices. Among the available options, multi-generation processes such as the trigeneration cycle, battery storage system, solar power plants and heat pumps have been widely studied, as they potentially allow for greater efficiency, lower costs, and reduced emissions. On the other hand, some researchers had been working to increase the potential of energy generation process through heat recovery under the steam generator, organic Rankine cycle, and absorption chillers. In this Special Issue on "Thermal Systems” of fundamental or applied and numerical or experimental investigation, many new concepts in thermal systems and energy utilization were explored and published as original research papers in this “Special Issue”.
Author: Francesco Pomponi
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 3039438158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe built environment is at a turning point. With projected trends in population growth and urbanization, global demand for new floor area is expected to rise sharply. This will put unprecedented pressure on the availability of natural resources and incur greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand. Such environmental stressors risk driving the world away from the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but equally represent an opportunity for just sustainability transitions. The contents of this book aim to address some of these grand challenges from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Low-energy architecture, low-carbon cities and the often-forgotten sustainability of refugee settlements are some of the themes dealt with by the authors.
Author: REY MARTINEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER
Publisher: Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A.
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 8497324196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEn este libro se presentan diferentes metodologias de certificacion energetica desarrolladas en Espana, y se propone un metodo de auditoria energetica, conforme a la directiva europea de eficiencia energetica en edificios. Finalmente, a modo de ejemplo, el libro presenta varios casos practicos de estudio de la certificacion energetica y auditorias energeticas, siguiendo una de las metodologias analizadas.
Author: Laura Marín-Restrepo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 3031242084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes how comfort, energy and climate change in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population relate to buildings. The building sector is currently facing significant challenges connected to energy consumption, energy poverty and climate change effects. When studied in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population, these factors, which are commonplace in the tropics and the southern hemisphere, are interlinked and share a critical component: environmental comfort. Although progress has been made in environmental comfort through research and the development of standards and policies at the international level, in the Global South, where the countries with the highest levels of income inequality are concentrated, environmental comfort has its own characteristics and challenges that prevent a clear understanding from the established vision of the Global North. This book presents research, theories and techniques related to Thermal comfort, Indoor air quality, Visual comfort, and Acoustic comfort and its relationship with energy use and energy efficiency, seeking to address different barriers to environmental comfort. It shows how to improve the way buildings are designed and operated to promote healthier environmental conditions and more sustainable construction, by presenting studies and reflections carried out in the target geographical area: the Global South. In this way, this book contributes to developing the concept of environmental comfort, visualising how progress has been made in understanding it from a tropical and southern perspective, and posing common challenges. The book is intended for engineers, architects, and researchers of the built environment who are interested in environmental comfort and its influence on energy consumption, energy poverty, and other related factors in the Global South context. It is also a useful resource for decision-makers and public policy developers concerned with the indoor comfort of buildings. Moreover, the book aims to provide guidance for those in developing countries by gathering existing knowledge in the field for the tropics and southern hemisphere climatic and sociocultural contexts, allowing us to move forward in this subject with actions and proposed solutions that fit our particular needs.
