Heating, cooling, lighting : sustainable design strategies towards net zero architecture / Norbert M. Lechner and Patricia Andrasik.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Fundamentals -- Background: architecture in a warming world -- Climate change: the key sustainability issue -- Basic principles: the physics of heat flow for heating and cooling buildings -- Climate: its significant impact on buildings -- Psychometrics: thermal comfort -- Solar geometry: the most powerful element of design -- Part II. Passive design strategies -- Passive heating systems: the solar potential of natural heating -- Solar rejection: shading and light colors -- Passive cooling: natural cooling, raising the comfort zone, and heat avoidance -- Site analysis: orientation, landscape and context in net-zero design -- Light: color, vision, and perception -- Daylighting: architectural control for natural beauty, comfort, and energy reduction -- The thermal envelope: keeping warm and staying cool -- Retrofits: energy efficiency upgrades for existing buildings -- Tropical architecture: not your temperate architecture -- Part III. Active design strategies -- Electric lighting: to complement daylight and at night -- Photovoltaics and solar thermal -- Mechanical equipment for heating and cooling -- Part IV. Integrated design -- Synergies: when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts -- Integrated design process -- Part V. Codes -- Checklist for designing net-zero buildings -- Assessment -- Digital.

"Heating, Cooling, Lighting, the leading guide to environmental control systems design for over 25 years, provides future architects and practicing professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to design a sustainable built environment at the schematic design stage. This book treats heating, cooling, and lighting not as isolated topics, but as integrated parts towards manipulating the environment to achieve net zero consumption. Responding to current industry trends, this Fifth Edition has been completely restructured based on net zero design strategies. Reflecting the latest developments in codes, standards, and rating systems for energy efficiency, this Fifth Edition includes three new chapters: Retrofits - best practices for efficient energy optimization in existing buildings, Integrated Design - strategies for synergizing passive and active design, and Design Tools - how to utilize the best tools to benchmark a building's sustainability and net zero potential; as well as an extensively updated Lighting chapter. Instructor's have access to an Instructor's Manual that includes exercises, projects, discussion questions, and web resources"-- Provided by publisher.