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Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture

By Norbert M. Lechner and Patricia Andrasik

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Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture by Norbert M. Lechner and Patricia Andrasik is an essential guide for architects and design professionals focused on environmental control systems in building design. Now in its Fifth Edition, the book presents cutting-edge research and is restructured around net zero design strategies. It covers the latest codes, standards, and energy efficiency rating systems, with new chapters on retrofits for existing buildings, integrated design combining passive and active approaches, and design tools for benchmarking building sustainability and net zero potential.

This comprehensive resource equips practitioners and students in environmental systems technology, construction technology, and sustainability design with the knowledge to create sustainable built environments from the schematic design phase onwards.
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This book is ideal for architects, design professionals, and students specialising in environmental design systems, sustainable architecture, and construction technology who seek detailed, up-to-date strategies for net zero energy buildings.

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The essential guide to environmental control systems in building design

For over 25 years, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture has provided architects and design professionals the knowledge and tools required to design a sustainable built environment at the schematic design stage. This Fifth Edition offers cutting-edge research in the field of sustainable architecture and design and has been completely restructured based on net zero design strategies. Reflecting the latest developments in codes, standards, and rating systems for energy efficiency, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture includes three new chapters:

Retrofits: Best practices for efficient energy optimization in existing buildings
Integrated Design: Strategies for synergizing passive and active design
Design Tools: How to utilise the best tools to benchmark a building's sustainability and net zero potential

Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture is a go-to resource for practising professionals and students in the fields of environmental systems technology or design, environmental design systems, construction technology, and sustainability technology.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119585749

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 December 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 5th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 221.0mm

Height: 277.0mm

Weight: 1950g

Pages: 832

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Norbert M. Lechner Patricia Andrasik

About the Author

NORBERT LECHNER, LEED AP (Chapel Hill, NC) Architect and Professor Emeritus of Architecture in the Building Science Department at Auburn University, is an expert in energy responsive architectural design with an emphasis on solar responsive design, including daylighting. He is a consultant for designing sustainable, low energy, and solar responsive buildings, and is the inventor of new types of heliodons that are invaluable for teaching and designing solar responsive buildings.

PATRICIA ANDRASIK, NCARB, AIA, IIDA, LEED BD+C, LEED O+M (Washington, D.C.) Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America, is a licensed architect in Washington, D.C. and is internationally recognized for her research in informing design through performance metrics and using performance metrics to inform O&M.