ALL ABOUT "BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE" (V.2)

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<<Bioclimatic Architecture Introduction & Product Specifications

FULL CONTENT LIST

Technologies:

• Introduction
  • What is bioclimatic architecture?
  • Why bioclimatic architecture?
  • Bioclimatic architecture now?
• Climatic Design
  • What is climatic design
  • Background
  • Climate
• Energy conservation
  • What is energy conservation
  • Background
  • Siting and site layout
  • Warm conditions
  • Cold conditions
  • Building fabric
  • Heat recovery
  • Mechanical /electrical systems
  • Retrofitting
• Occupant behaviour
  • Introduction
  • Space heating
  • Ventilation
  • Passive solar heating
  • Water heating
  • Lighting
  • Occupancy patterns
• Thermal comfort
  • Introduction
  • Heat balance of the human body
  • Thermal comfort parameters
  • Thermal comfort indices
  • Thermal comfort and energy efficiency
  • References
• Passive Solar Heating
  • Introduction
  • The solar resource
  • Design framework
  • Direct gain
  • Solar walls
  • Sunspaces
  • Solar contribution to heating needs
  • Resource guide
  • Examples
• Natural cooling
  • Temperature gains
  • Solar gains
  • External gains
  • Internal gains
  • Ventilation
  • Natural cooling
  • Solar options
  • Examples
• Daylight
  • Why use daylight
  • Light
  • Human vision
  • Visual comfort
  • Daylight resource
  • Daylight design
  • Artificial lighting
  • Lighting performance
  • Retrofitting
  • Examples
• Environmental Assessments of Buildings
  • Introduction
  • Building related environmental Issues
  • Methods
  • Further sources of information
• Renewable Energy
  • Introduction
  • Solar
  • Wind
  • Biomass
  • Hydro
  • Wave
  • Tidal
  • Geothermal
  • Resource guide
  • Examples
• District and Group Heating
  • Introduction
  • Characteristics
  • Production systems
  • Suitable sources of heat
  • Economics
  • Environmental issues
  • Examples
  • Heat pumps
• Bioclimatic Urban Design
  • Introduction
  • The city
  • Designing settlements
  • Planning the built fabric
  • Planning urban spaces
• Design Tools and Building Design
  • Videos
  • Overview
  • Design and Evaluation of Buildings
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Computer Operating Systems & Hardware
  • Accuracy and Validation
  • Training and Cost
  • Simple versus sophisticated
  • Identifying functional requirements
  • Further information and glossary

How to obtain the LIOR GUIDES?

Directory:

• Suppliers / Engineering / Consultants / Experts
• Education & training / Associations
• From Europe and more from the rest of the world

Databank

• THESAURUS / GLOSSARY (Keywords & Acronyms + definitions (partly translated)
• CONVERSIONS, SYMBOLS AND UNITS
• PUBLICATIONS (selection of relevant publications)
• MEDIA GALLERY
  • Photographs / Videos / Animations / Drawings
  • Graphics: access to screens from all available pictures in the Encyclopaedia
• CHOICE OF PATH ( Standard features )
  • Educational path (Medium + High level)
  • Presentation path (SME - DEMO)
  • Guided tour (Express Tour - Complete tour)
  • Build your own paths
• “ WIS ” Software DEMO
  • Calculations for windows in buildings
• CHOICE of LANGUAGE (for menus - keywords & definitions

Example Projects

How to obtain the LIOR GUIDES?