A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance

The second edition of this authoritative textbook equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The book looks at how to design, engineer and monitor energy efficient buildings, how to adapt buildings to climate change, and how to make buildings healthy, comfortable and secure. New material for this edition includes sections on environmental masterplanning, renewable technologies, retrofitting, passive house design, thermal comfort and indoor air quality. With chapters and case studies from a range of international, interdisciplinary authors, the book is essential reading for students and professionals in building engineering, environmental design, construction and architecture.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction to Urban Systems Setting the Scene 1. Building Sustainable Communities 2. Urban Climate – impacts of energy use, comfort and health 3. Air Pollution and Urban Built Environment 4. Environmental Master Planning Part 2: Energy and Buildings Introduction 5. Energy Efficiency and Thermal Envelope 6. Energy Monitoring and Benchmarking 7. Energy Modelling for Building Design, Compliance and Certification 8. Carbon Reduction in Buildings 9. Renewable Technologies 10. Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings 11. Case Study A: Energy and Environmental Monitoring 12. Case Study B: Energy Modelling 13. Case Study C: Retrofitting to the Passive House Standards Part 3: Buildings and Environment Introduction 14. Ventilation, Thermal Comfort, Health and Productivity 15. Thermal Comfort and Overheating 16. Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Monitoring 17. Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Modelling 18. Moisture Control in Buildings 19. Natural Ventilation in City Centre Buildings 20. Mechanical and Mixed Mode Ventilation in City Centre Buildings 21. Sustainable Cooling Strategies 22. Case Study A: Indoor Air Quality in City Centre Buildings 23. Case Study B: Indoor Air Quality and Health 24. Case Study C: Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Modelling Part 4: Operational Performance of Buildings Introduction 25. The Role of Feedback in Low Energy Building Design, Construction and Management 26. Post-occupancy Evaluation of Buildings 27. Occupant Behaviour and Energy Use 28. Case Study A: Natural Ventilation of Auditoria: three case studies 29. Case Study B: Naturally Ventilated Building in a City Centre 30. Case Study C: Low Carbon High Performance Large Retail Premises 31. Case Study D: Impact of an Energy Refurbishment Programme in Chile: More than energy savings.

About the Author :
Dejan Mumovic is Professor of Building Performance Analysis and the Director of the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) at The Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He has been a driving force and the Chair of the MEng Engineering and Architectural Design, a radical four-year programme which has been designed to address fragmentation in the building design industry by combining the major disciplines of architectural, structural and environmental design and engineering. He also contributed to the development of MSc Environmental Design and Engineering, MSc Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings, and MSc Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering. Dejan is a building scientist with a background in heating, ventilation and air conditioning engineering and has extensive experience of monitoring and modelling work in the field of the built environment. His research focuses on the development of appropriate techniques necessary for evaluating built environment issues holistically. In the last 15 years Dejan has led, co-led or significantly contributed to 40 research projects, and co-authored over 150 peer reviewed publications. He also sits on editorial advisory boards of Taylor & Francis' Intelligent Buildings International, SAGE's BSERT and Elsevier’s International Journal of Sustainable Built Environments. Dejan is a co-founder of two specialist groups: IBPSA-England (an affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association) and CIBSE School Design Group. Mat Santamouris is Professor of High Performance Architecture in the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is also a Professor at the University of Athens, Greece, and visiting Professor at the Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University of London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunel University and National University of Singapore. He is Director of the Laboratory of Building Energy Research at the University of Athens and Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Mat is the Editor in Chief of Energy and Buildings, and the past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Advances in Building Energy Research. He is the editor and author of 14 international books on topics related to heat islands, solar energy and energy conservation in buildings, and the guest editor of 12 special issues in the field of building science and engineering. Mat is a scientific coordinator of many international research programme and author of almost 240 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals. He is a reviewer of research projects in 15 countries including the USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, and Sweden.