Energy Efficient Buildings (eBook)

Zhiqiang (John) Zhai, PhD, is Professor for Building Systems Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He obtained his first doctorate in Engineering at the Tsinghua University and his second doctorate in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his research is focused on thermal and environmental systems, indoor and outdoor environmental quality, and sustainable and immune buildings.

1. Sustainable Building

1) Building Functions

2) Building Elements

3) Definition of Sustainable Building

4) Origin and Significance of Sustainable Building

5) Sustainable Principles

6) Three-Layer Design Approach

7) Three-Tier Design Approach

8) Two Case Studies

2. Life-Cycle Cost Analysis

1) Life Phases of a Building

2) Design Process of a Building

3) Integrated Design Process of a Sustainable Building

4) Basics of Cost and Economic Analysis

5) Life-Cycle-Cost Analysis

6) Life-Cycle-Cost Analysis Based Optimization

3. Codes and Standards

1) Impacts of Building Codes

2) Types of Design Regulations

3) Integrative Use of All

4. Air Properties and Psychrometric Chart

1) Air Composition

2) Moist Air and Its Properties

3) Construction of a Psychrometric Chart

5. Climate and Site Analysis

1) Climate Analysis

2) Heating and Cooling Design Climatic Data

3) Site Analysis

6. Indoor Thermal Comfort

1) Indoor Environment Quality

2) Indoor Thermal Comfort

3) Comfort Zone

4) Approaches to Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort

5) Other Thermal Comfort Factors

7. Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation, and Infiltration

1) Indoor Air Quality

2) Ventilation

3) Air Purification

4) Infiltration

5) Blower Door Test

8. Heat Transfer in Building

1) Latent Heat Transfer

2) Sensible Heat Transfer

3) Practical Heat Transfer through Building Envelope

4) Ground Heat Transfer

9. Sun and Solar Radiation

1) Sun and Solar

2) Solar Angles

3) Sky Dome and Sun-Path Diagrams

4) Solar Shading

5) Solar Radiation on External Walls

6) Solar Radiation on Windows

10. Passive Building Systems

1) Introduction

2) Overview of Passive Cooling

3) Overview of Passive Heating

4) Prescreening Feasibility of Passive Cooling and Heating Techniques

5) Natural Ventilation

6) Night Cooling with Thermal Mass

7) Direct/Indirect Evaporative Cooling

8) Trombe Wall

9) Sunspace

10) Double Skin Façade

11) Phase Change Material

11. Building Load Calculation

1) Residential and Light Commercial Buildings

i. Heating load calculation

ii. Cooling load calculation

2) Commercial Buildings

12. Heating, Cooling and Ventilation Systems

1) Basics of Mechanical Systems

2) Heating and Cooling on Psychrometric Chart

3) System Sizing

13. Building Energy Consumption

1) Hand Calculation

2) Computer Simulation

14. Building Energy Analysis and Optimization

1) Overview

2) Simulation Tools

3) Benchmark Model Development

4) Parametric Analysis

5) Energy Efficiency Measures

6) Initial Optimization

7) Sensitivity Analysis

8) Second Optimization and Recommendations

9) Conclusions

Index