Reprint

Buildings of Tomorrow: Goals and Challenges for Design and Operation of High-Performance Buildings

Edited by
August 2022
230 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-4881-4 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-4882-1 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Buildings of Tomorrow: Goals and Challenges for Design and Operation of High-Performance Buildings that was published in

Business & Economics
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
Summary

This reprint aims to address the challenges modern-day buildings face in the context of high energy and resource consumption and climate change. One of the ways to address the issues is holistic design and operation of high-performance buildings in the area of energy efficiency, occupant health, and comfort. All this should be achieved through synergic interconnectedness between parameters such as the indoor–outdoor environment, sustainability, and resilience. Through different chapters, this reprint highlights the key areas, namely, the optimization of building design parameters, the impact of the use of modern-day phase-change materials, the adaptation of occupants and buildings to climate change, the mitigation of urban overheating by cool roofs, and reducing energy demand and CO2 emissions.

Format
  • Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
climate change; bioclimatic design; passive design; energy efficiency; overheating; building resilience; robustness; shape factor; building; thermal envelope; energy demand; CO2 emissions; white roofs; cool roofs; reflective material; cost-benefit; energy savings; urban heat island; thermal comfort; indoor environmental quality; educational buildings; energy consumptions; local discomfort; building energy retrofitting; phase change materials; aerogel render; heat stress risk; energy savings; emission; lifecycle cost; peak cooling load; residential building; building envelope; multi-objective genetic algorithm; TRNSYS; climate zone; multi-criteria decision making; CRITIC; TOPSIS; thermal comfort; capture devices; building; variables; field surveys; thermal perceptions; adaptive actions; hostel dormitories; composite climate of India; reflective materials; mitigation; urban heat island; outdoor comfort; visual comfort; heat stress; optimization; skyscrapers