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  House Rating Schemes: From Energy to Comfort Base
Posted by: ir_71 - 12-18-2010, 04:25 PM - Forum: General Books - No Replies

House Rating Schemes: From Energy to Comfort Base

Author: Maria Kordjamshidi | Size: 2.7 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Springer | Year: 2010 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 3642157890

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"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 performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » Buildings - Energy efficiency - Rating - Thermal comfort - Thermal performance

Related subjects » Architecture - Energy Technology - Engineering - Sustainable Development

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Why House Energy Ratings Accomplished . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 The Position of Passive Architecture in Current HERS . . . . . . . 3
1.3 A Conflict in HERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Book Outline – How to Read the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 House Rating Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 House Energy Rating Schemes (HERS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.1 TheUnitedStates ofAmerica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.2 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.3 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.4 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Rating Methodologies for Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.1 Building Rating Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3 Energy as theMainParameter forRatingBuildings . . . . . . . . 18
2.4 Issues Related to Building Energy Rating Schemes . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.1 Rating and Achievement of Sustainability . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.2 Rating Free Running Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.3 Rating Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.4.4 Occupancy Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.4.5 Accuracy of HERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.5 Need for a New Index for Assessing Building
EnergyEfficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1 ThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1.1 Definition of Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.1.2 Human Comfort and Variables Affecting
ThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.1.3 Thermal Comfort Models and Standards . . . . . . . . . . 34
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vi Contents
3.1.4 Applicability of the Thermal Comfort Index
for Naturally Ventilated Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.1.5 Adaptive Thermal Comfort Models for Naturally
Ventilated/Free Running Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.1.6 Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Free Running
Buildings Based on the ASHRAE Standard . . . . . . . . 41
3.1.7 Applicability of the Adaptive Comfort Model
for Free Running Residential Buildings . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.2 Evaluation of a Residential Building’s Thermal
Performance on the Basis of Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.2.1 Computing Degree Hours for Free Running
Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3.3 Indicators to Measure the Thermal Performance of Houses
forRatingPurposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.1 Conditioned Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.2 Free Running Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.3 Howan IndicatorPoints toBuildingEfficiency . . . . . . 46
3.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4 Modelling Efficient Building Design: Efficiency for Low
Energy or No Energy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.1 Building Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.1.1 BuildingSimulationPrograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.1.2 Criteria for Modeling the Thermal Performance
of Buildings in Two Different Operation Modes . . . . . . 56
4.1.3 Effective Parameters for Improving Buildings
Thermal Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.2 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis of Thermal Performances
ofBuildings:AComparativeAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.1 What Is Sensitivity Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.2 Thermal Performances of Dwellings
in the Sydney Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.3 Summary of Thermal Performance Analysis . . . . . . . . 100
4.3 Relationship Between Thermal Performance of Buildings
ontheBasisofEnergy andThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.3.1 CorrelationCoefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.2 MultivariateRegressionAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
4.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5 Assembling a House Energy Ratings (HER) and House Free
Running Ratings (HFR) Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.1 Rating Building Thermal Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.1.1 How Should Building Thermal Performance Bands
Be Defined for Rating? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Contents vii
5.2 TheCombination ofTwoRatingSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.3 HowtheNewCombinedSystemEvaluatesEfficiency . . . . . . . 125
5.4 Reliability of the New Rating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.1 The Effect of House Envelope Parameters on the Seasonal
Performance of Houses in Different Operation Modes . . . . . . . 131
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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  Sketch Plan Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done
Posted by: brass - 12-18-2010, 04:02 PM - Forum: General Books - Replies (1)

Sketch Plan Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done

Author: Bahamon, Alejandro | Size: 76,7 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Harper Design International Publishing |
Year: 2005 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0060749717

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Focusing on the design process of today's most noteworthy architects, Sketch Plan Build explores the reasoning, resources, and influences behind the projects of today's most recognized architects. This book is a primary tool for understanding the different traits and nuances each architect uses to express their own ideas. With international projects from world renowned architects such as Tadao Ando, Coop Himmellau, and Renzo Piano, and with detailed sketches, drawings, and photographs for each project, Sketch Plan Build is sure to provide a comprehensive compendium for all those interested in how an inspired idea makes the journey from projection to construction.

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  Indian Standard codes (SP sodes)
Posted by: shelare - 12-18-2010, 03:31 PM - Forum: Codes, Manual & Handbook - Replies (2)

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  Handrail and Post Design
Posted by: haze - 12-18-2010, 02:37 PM - Forum: Engineering Spreadsheet - Replies (1)

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  EN 15129:2009 Anti-seismic devices
Posted by: ir_71 - 12-18-2010, 12:25 PM - Forum: EN - Replies (4)

EN 15129:2009 Anti-seismic devices

Author: CEN/TC 340 “Anti-seismic devices” | Size: 1 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: CEN | Year: 2009 | pages: 159

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This European Standard covers the design of devices that are provided in structures, with the aim of
modifying their response to the seismic action. It specifies functional requirements and general design rules
for the seismic situation, material characteristics, manufacturing and testing requirements, as well as
evaluation of conformity, installation and maintenance requirements. This European Standard covers the
types of devices and combinations thereof as defined in 3.4.
NOTE Additional information concerning the scope of this European Standard is given in Annex A.

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  EN 2243 parts 1-4 Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method
Posted by: ir_71 - 12-18-2010, 11:56 AM - Forum: EN - No Replies

EN 2243 Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method

Author: Subcommittee ACE/65/-/63 | Size: 1.5 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: CEN


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EN 2243-1:2005
Aerospace series - Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method - Part 1: Single lap shear
The objective of this standard is to establish the test methods for defining the strength of suitable structural adhesives in metal to metal single lap shear, at ambient and other temperatures.

EN 2243-2:2005
Aerospace series - Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method - Part 2: Peel metal-metal
This standard defines the general requirements for the determination of strength of structural adhesives by testing in peel metal to metal joints, at ambient or other temperatures.
This method is not suitable for adhesives having an average peeling strength of less than 30 N per 25 mm.

EN 2243-3:2005
Aerospace series - Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method - Part 3: Peeling test metal-honeycomb core
This standard defines the general requirements for the determination of strength of structural adhesives by testing in peel metal to honeycomb core joints, at ambient or other temperatures.

EN 2243-4:2005
Aerospace series - Non-metallic materials - Structural adhesives - Test method - Part 4: Metal-honeycomb core flatwise tensile test
This standard defines the general requirements for the determination of strength of structural adhesives by testing in tension metal to honeycomb core joints, at ambient or other temperatures.
Two types of test pieces are defined:
Type A: direct bonding of honeycomb to facing blocks;
Type B: bonding of honeycomb between the two facing sheets, then bonding of the whole to the facing blocks.

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  BS EN 1859:2009 Chimneys - Metal chimneys - Test methods
Posted by: ir_71 - 12-18-2010, 11:30 AM - Forum: British Standards (BS) - Replies (1)

BS EN 1859:2009 Chimneys - Metal chimneys - Test methods

Author: CEN/TC 166 “Chimneys” | Size: 1.6 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: CEN | Year: 2009 | pages: 50 | ISBN: 978 0 580 60026 5

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This European Standard describes test methods for metal chimney products.

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  Encyclopedia of Coastal Science (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series)
Posted by: utan - 12-18-2010, 11:20 AM - Forum: Geology - Replies (1)

Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series

Size: 82.4 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Springer | Year: June 1, 2005 | pages: 1243 | ISBN: 1402019033

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Maurice Schwartz, Editor of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments (Hutchinson Ross, 1982) has now brought forth a new volume with a fresh interdisciplinary approach that includes geomorphology, ecology, engineering, technology, oceanography, and human activities as they relate to coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia of Coastal Science includes many aspects of the coastal sciences that are only to be found scattered among scientific literature.

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  MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
Posted by: Dell_Brett - 12-18-2010, 09:00 AM - Forum: Geophysical Engineering - Replies (2)

MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences

Author: Martin H. Trauth, E. Sillmann, Robin Gebbers, Norbert Marwan | Size: 4.4 MB | Format: PDF |
Publisher: Springer | Year: 2006 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 3540279830

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MATLAB is used in a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces basic methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB. The text includes a brief description of each method and numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on data sets from earth sciences. All MATLAB recipes can be easily modified in order to analyse the reader's own data sets.

This book introduces some of the most important methods of data analysis in earth sciences by means of MATLAB examples. The examples can be used as recipes for the analysis of the reader as real data after learning their application on synthetic data. The introductory Chapter 1 deals with data acquisition (Chapter 1.2), the expected data types (Chapter 1.3) and the suitable methods for analyzing data in the field of earth sciences (Chapter 1.4). Therefore, we first explore the characteristics of a typical data set. Subsequently, we proceed to investigate the various ways of analyzing data with MATLAB.

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  Structural Dynamic - Lecture
Posted by: subin91 - 12-18-2010, 07:38 AM - Forum: Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering - Replies (1)

Structural Dynamic - Lecture
By G.L. Fenves from ROSE SCHOOL

Contain Lecture 1-10 , MatLAB file in each lecture , Homework
SIZE : ~77 MB.
TYPE : PDF, MatLAB

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