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Successful solar energy solutions

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Rst 15/08/24rnAs the benefits of solar energy continue to grow in importance, so does the need for more efficient solar architectural designs. But the real challenege facing architects is whether or not they can incorporate maximum off iciency into a dwelling that also complements more traditional surroundings. This book proves that the demands of efficiency and aesthetic quality can be metrnin one structure. Providing crystal-clear descriptions, drawings, and photographs of buildings from all areas of the U.S., it presents some of the most innovative, positive, and well-defined solar energy designs of the past 25 years. Samples are included that utilize both passive and active solar space heating and cooling, as well as solar domestic hot water systems. Thernreader will become acquainted with buildings that make simultaneous use of several solar systems, and discover how the systems are implemented in terms of new and retrofit construction. All designs are treated as individual case studies and grouped according to building types—commercial, institutional and residential—and climatic region—cool,temperate, hot-arid and hot-humid—so that the reader can quickly correlate specific samples based on similar characteristics. Ranging from an owner-built dwelling in Arizona to a high rise office building in New Hampshire, each case study is further classified according to a wide range of criteria—such as professionals involved in its design and construction; spatial and mechanical characteristics that relate to conservation and/or collection of energy; and operating modes and construction details of the solar energy system and its components. Four extensive appendices offer valuable material on the fundamentals of solar energy,characteristics of climatic regions, specific solar energy systems, and manufacturers of solar products. All architects—or engineers working in energy-related fields—will find this compendium of information extremely useful in the evaluation of past, present and future trends in solar architecture. is currently a research engineer and designer with significant background in the solar energy field. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Architecture from Catholic University, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.rnMr. Braden is also the author of another book on solar energy applications to architecture entitled Graphic Standards of Solar Energy (CBI Publishing, 1977). A recipient of the ATA Student Design Award,H l f l g is an architectural designer with experience in solar architecture. She also received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Architecture from Catholic University.

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697.78 Bra s

Publisher

New York : VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD., 1980

Collation

301 pages

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0442207387

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697.78

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Subject(s)

Solar energy conversion

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