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LECTURE 05 - ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES

1. Technological Principles

  • low-tech and high-tech
  • energy requirements and efficiency approach
    (* photos of buildings in the world)

2. Passive Building Design

  • basic concepts
  • passive cooling
  • daylighting
3. Building Services Systems
  • HVAC System
  • lighting system
  • other building services systems
4. Solar Energy Systems
  • active solar
  • photovoltaics

  • Audio Visual Materials:

  • Pennsylvania's First Green Building [videorecording, 27 min.], Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 2000.
  • Further Reading:
    • Bansal, N. K., Hauser, G., and Minke, 1994. Passive Building Design: A Handbook of Natural Climatic Control, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam/New York. [on order; CityU/PolyU: TH6025 .B36 1994]
    • Daniels, K. (English translation by E. Schwaiger), 1998. Low-Tech, Light-Tech, High-Tech: Building in the Information Age, Birkhauser Publisher, Basel, Switzerland. [720.47 D18 l]
    • Givoni, B., 1994. Passive and Low Energy Cooling of Buildings, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. [697.93 G53]
    • Tuluca, A. (ed.), 1997. Energy Efficient Design and Construction for Commercial Buildings, Chapters 3-6, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. [696 T92]
     
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