Energy Efficiency in Buildings (CIBSE Guide F: Energy Efficiency in Buildings) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903287340 ISBN 13: 9781903287347

Publisher: Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, 2006

Synopsis

This edition of Guide F covers both the energy requirements committed by the design and the energy costs in use, as design and management cannot be separated. It has become larger as some new sections have been added, such as the checklist Why buildings fail on energy, and there are useful practical enhancements including a Design checklist, How to carry out an energy survey and Part C: Benchmarks. CIBSE Applications Manual AM 5: Energy audits and surveys has been incorporated within this volume for completeness.

The Guide seeks to inform a very diverse audience and aims to be pertinent to many groups involved in buildings besides building services engineers, including building developers/financiers, specifiers, architects, surveyors, letting agents, energy managers and consultants and building owners/operators.

Guide F deals with the building as a whole. The technical content is guidance from an energy perspective and extra information is available elsewhere in the CIBSE Guides and other sources listed in the bibliographies at the end of each section. The Guide also complements energy efficiency publications provided under the Carbon Trust's Action Energy programme (formerly the Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme).

The CIBSE has had a long and productive relationship with the Best Practice Programme and this relationship continues under the Action Energy banner. The importance and relevance of Guide F has been given added emphasis because of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which came into force on 4 January 2003. This Directive gives public profile to the energy efficiency performance of buildings across the UK. It raises awareness of how energy efficient different buildings really are. Prospective owners and occupiers will, for the first time, be able to compare one building with another and see what could be done to bring energy efficiency performance up to the standards of the best. The Directive should help stimulate substantial increases in investments in energy efficiency measures in all buildings both commercial and domestic.

The environmental prize for the application of the good design and management principles set out in this Guide is huge. It is estimated that around 22% of the present energy consumed in buildings can be saved by 2010. This challenge is reflected in the CIBSE Energy Policy Statement included in Appendix A1.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903287340
• ISBN 13: 9781903287347
• Binding: Paperback