Net Zero Energy Design: A Guide for Commercial Architecture

This book provides architects and construction professionals with complete guidance on how to design and build net zero commercial architecture. With a focus on application in a variety of building types and scales, the book helps readers develop a thorough understanding of all the integrated principles involved in achieving net zero energy. It offers practical strategies, step-by-step technical analysis, valuable examples, developed case studies, and numerous color graphics and photographs, making it an indispensable guide for anyone venturing into net zero energy design, construction, and operation.

Avainsanat: Building Design, net zero energy design, high energy performance buildings, sustainable design, toward a zero energy home, cradle to cradle, the green studio handbook, thomas hootman, johnston, mcdonough, kwok