Author: United States. Office of Energy Conservation and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Identifying Retrofit Projects for Buildings
Author: United States. Office of Energy Conservation and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Power of Existing Buildings
Author: Robert SroufePublisher:
ISBN: 164283050X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals.
Deep Energy Retrofit Guide for Public Buildings
Author: Rüdiger LohsePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030149226
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book provides detailed information on how to set up Deep Energy Retrofits (DERs) in public buildings, and shares in-depth insights into the current status of the major technologies, strategies and practical best practice examples of how to cost-effectively combine them. Case studies from Europe are analyzed with respect to energy use before and after renovation, reasons for undertaking the renovation, co-benefits achieved, resulting cost-effectiveness, and the business models employed. The building sector holds the potential for tremendous improvements in terms of energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions, and energy retrofits to the existing building stock represent a significant opportunity in the transition to a low-carbon future. Moreover, investing in highly efficient building materials and systems can replace long-term energy imports, contribute to cost cutting, and create a wealth of new jobs. Yet, while the technologies needed in order to improve energy efficiency are readily available, significant progress has not yet been made, and “best practices” for implementing building technologies and renewable energy sources are still relegated to small “niche” applications. Offering essential information on Deep Energy Retrofits, the book offers a valuable asset for architects, public authorities, project developers, and engineers alike.
Evaluation of the Plan to Conserve Energy in Federal Buildings Through Retrofit Programs
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Retrofit for Purpose
Author: Greg PenoyrePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000705080
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Retrofit for Purpose examines a range of state-of-the-art non-domestic retrofit projects. Its chapters explore common challenges, offer practical solutions and provide a clarion-call to architects and clients for better, smarter retrofit. Twelve case studies focus as much on the transformation of usability and image as on the improvements in the energy and resource use of non-domestic buildings. While an essay section places these projects into a wider context, suggesting that despite the importance of sharing and analysing data, there is more to retrofit than just energy efficiency. The authors take a range of other retrofit variables: from client ambition to tenure, budget, use type, age, context, fashion and fiscal arrangements and assess how retrofit can be made affordable, how it fits in with wider government policy and how performance can be measured.
NBS Building Science Series
Author: Life-cycle Costing
Author: Rosalie T. RueggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Coast Guard Engineer's Digest
Author: Retrofitting for Optimal Energy Performance
Author: Tantau, AdrianPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522591060
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Retrofitting expresses, in a traditional approach, the process of improving something after it has been manufactured, constructed, or assembled. These systems integrate new technologies, new functions, and new services that increase the energy performance in existing private, public, and commercial buildings. Retrofitting for Optimal Energy Performance is a comprehensive reference source that examines environmentally conscious technologies and their applications in advancing retrofitting practices. Providing relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area, it highlights an array of topics such as climate change, energy management, and optimization modeling, and is essential for academicians, students, researchers, engineers, architects, entrepreneurs, managers, policymakers, and building owners.
Guidelines for Energy Officers
Author: Tetra Tech, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description