Passive and Active Environmental Controls: Informing the Schematic Designing of Buildings - Hardcover

Heerwagen, Dean

9780072922288: Passive and Active Environmental Controls: Informing the Schematic Designing of Buildings

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072922281 ISBN 13: 9780072922288

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Passive and Active Environmental Controls: Informing the Schematic Designing of Buildings is written for the architecture audience. It primarily addresses how to design and construct buildings to satisfy occupants’ physical and physiological needs. The text serves as an introduction to the subject of environmental controls and presents information necessary for the schematic design of buildings. It describes the various components of a particular system, developing how a system functions, how the systems components fit together and how spaces are organized to accommodate these components. The book demonstrates how each system is integrated with other building systems, such as the structural systems and the overall architecture of the building.

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A diversity of buildings or structures are studied in a case-like manner, allowing students to evaluate designs, costs and issues encountered during and after the buildings are finished.

The text is divided into two parts, the first discussing passive environmental controls and the second describing active environmental control systems.

This text is geared specifically towards architecture, is brief, covers only the essential information that architects need to know, is visual, and is significantly less expensive than the market leader.
Prepares students with design fundamentals and decision making choices in the early phases of any building design process.
Chapter devoted to vertical transportation systems.
Superior coverage of: HVAC, Acoustics and Daylighting.
Highly illustrated text.

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