Natural Energy, Lighting, and Ventilation in Sustainable Buildings [Hardcover]

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design. It brings together an international group of contributors focusing on ways natural energy, lighting, and ventilation can improve the performance of electrical, lighting, and mechanical systems. Contributions explore how natural resources can contribute to sustainable development goals while meeting energy demands and maintaining acceptable interior air quality and natural illumination needs. Coverage includes green building design, renewable energy integration, photovoltaic systems, small-scale wind turbines, natural lighting, and natural ventilation. 

Natural Energy, Lighting, and Ventilation in Sustainable Buildings offers practical and promising solutions for novel challenges in sustainable design for electrical engineers, energy engineers, architectural engineers, and related professionals, as well asresearchers and developers from engineering science.

Chapter 1. Sustainable Buildings: A Comprehensive Review and Classification of Challenges and Issues, Benefits, and Future Directions.- Chapter 2. The Challenges and Solutions in Sustainable Buildings.- Chapter 3. Introduction and literature review to deployment of photovoltaic systems in buildings.- Chapter 4. Introduction and Literature Review to Deployment of Photovoltaic Systems in Sustainable Buildings.- Chapter 5. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) and its application, design, and Policy and Strategies.- Chapter 6. Integration of Small-Scale Wind Turbines in Sustainable and Energy Efficient Buildings.- Chapter 7. Operation Optimization of Sustainable Buildings.- Chapter 8. Design of sustainable buildings with renewables.- Chapter 9. Thermal energy storage (TES) for sustainable buildings: addressing the current energetic situation in the EU with TES-enhanced buildings.- Chaptel“'