Passive House Details

Name: Passive House Details
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138958265
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Solutions for High-Performance Design

By Donald Corner and Jan Fillinger and Alison Kwok

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Passive House Details explores the design and construction of ultralow-energy buildings. It covers essential topics such as heat transfer, moisture management, performance targets, and climatic zones, providing detailed guidance to achieve energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, and healthy buildings. The book features over 375 colour images and incorporates insights from forty firms, including fourteen in-depth case studies illustrating advanced systems for foundations, walls, floors, roofs, windows, and doors.
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This book is ideal for architects, builders, and designers interested in sustainable building methods and energy-efficient design, as well as students studying environmental architecture or construction technology.

Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings.

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Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region.

Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture management, performance targets, and climatic zones. Illustrated with more than 375 colour images, the book is a visual catalogue of construction details, materials, and systems drawn from projects contributed from forty firms.

Fourteen in-depth case studies demonstrate the most energy-efficient systems for foundations, walls, floors, roofs, windows, doors, and more.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138958265

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, color; 110 Line drawings, color; 270 Halftones, color; 380 Illustrations, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 332

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Alison Kwok Arts & Culture Donald Corner Education & Reference Jan Fillinger Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Donald B. Corner is a practicing architect and member of the College of Distinguished Professors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He has been recognized for research and innovative teaching in building construction and detailing. For the past 20 years he has offered an integrated course in the technology and design of the building enclosure.　 Jan C. Fillinger is principal of STUDIO-E Architecture, a certified passive house consultant, an educator, and a developer of sustainable projects in Eugene, Oregon, USA. His academic and professional design work focuses on reducing carbon emissions, through socially and environmentally conscious strategies, climate- and site-responsive buildings, and urban high-density projects.　 Alison G. Kwok, PhD, is an architect and certified passive house consultant. She teaches design studios, building performance seminars, and environmental technology. Her research includes adaptive and mitigation strategies for climate change, thermal comfort, and building performance case studies. She is co-author of the Green Studio Handbook and Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings.