Energy Conservation Measures in Building: A Survey

P Steadman
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P Steadman: The Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA

Environment and Planning B, 1974, vol. 1, issue 1, 3-27

Abstract: A wide range of possible measures for the conservation of energy in buildings are reviewed. The survey is made in the context of the American situation and covers energy use in space heating and cooling, water heating, lighting, and domestic and other appliances. Topics discussed include ‘total energy’ systems, insulation, heat losses through ventilation, solar heat gain, heat of lights, life-cycle costing, heat pumps, standards of heating and cooling, lighting standards, appliance design, energy costs of building materials, and potential savings from energy conservation measures. Many of these areas are the subject of much detailed research in their own right; the purpose of the present broad review is to try to set the variety of separate possibilities for conservation in the context of a potentially systematic view of their overall interrelationship, and in the context of building design seen as a whole.

Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1068/b010003

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