Building Sustainable Futures: Design and the Built Environment
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I -- Sustainable Construction and Measurement -- Chapter-1 -- Building Sustainable Futures: An Ever Changing Policy Agenda -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Historical Context -- 1.3 Sustainable Development -- 1.4 Current Agenda -- 1.5 Buildings, Technology and Design -- 1.6 Focus on Design -- 1.7 A Final Note -- References -- Chapter-2 -- Surveying and Measuring the Thermal Properties of Buildings -- 2.1 Energy Performance Directive: The Need for Measurement and Control -- 2.2 Factors Contributing to Performance Variance -- 2.3 Building Properties: Variations Construction -- 2.4 Common Factors that Lead to Differences in New Build Performance -- 2.5 Variation in Existing Buildings -- 2.6 Building Surveys -- 2.7 Surveying and Thermography for Building Forensics -- 2.8 Infra-Red Thermography -- 2.9 What is Thermal Imaging? -- 2.10 Using Infra-red Thermography -- 2.11 Practicality -- References -- Chapter-3 -- Monitoring and Measuring Building Performance -- 3.1 Integrated Energy Monitoring: Process and Building Performance -- 3.2 Logically Defining the Test and Monitoring Environment -- 3.3 Decision Tree Logic in Building Performance -- 3.4 Building Component: Key Considerations -- 3.5 Whole Building Envelope: Key Considerations -- 3.6 Whole Building Energy Characterisation -- 3.7 In-Use Monitoring -- 3.8 In-Use Energy Consumption -- 3.9 Monitoring Needs: What to Monitor and Why? -- 3.10 How to Monitor? -- 3.11 Considerations for In-Use Monitoring -- 3.12 Understanding Building Energy Use, Occupant Behaviour and Change -- 3.13 Monitoring of Renewable Technologies -- 3.13.1 Policy Background -- 3.13.2 Complex Nature of Field Trials: Monitoring Renewable Technology -- 3.14 Practical Metering Issues: Monitoring Renewable Technology -- 3.14.1 Data Management.
