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is an authoritative and inspirational design guide for clients and designers
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covers the whole design process from site conditions and planning for better thermal performance to provision for alternative energy sources
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describes how to optimise the layout to achieve ‘low energy’ designs, together with guidance on envelope performance and details for ventilation, airsealing and insulation
LOW-ENERGY TIMBER FRAME BUILDINGS
Low energy timber frame buildings
Matthew Hoad of HTA Architects, London: “This book is refreshingly simple to understand and follows logical arguments on where to best deploy timber construction (and other materials) in high performance buildings.”
Low-energy timber frame buildings Designing for high performance 2nd Edition Geoffrey Pitts with Robin Lancashire
Firstly the author describes influential factors such as external climate, desirable internal environmental conditions and aspects of site planning. He then focuses on residential building forms, the significance of internal planning and the construction system in designing low-energy timber frame buildings for high performance.
Pitts / Lancashire
The energy consumption associated with buildings has consistently been estimated to be up to 50% of the total national consumption in industrialised countries and, of this proportion, residential buildings account for more than half. Timber frame systems are readily adaptable to the increasingly tough energy-saving regulations needed to cut energy use in buildings.
low-energy timber frame buildings offers guidance on assessing the thermal resistance of the building envelope, together with a rational approach to thermal capacity and response of timber frame buildings. This is developed in detail across the various building elements. The book includes practical advice on choosing fuels and space heating, as well as exploiting renewable energy. Geoffrey C Pitts (author) was formerly a housing innovation consultant specialising in timber frame. Robin Lancashire (technical editor) is senior timber frame consultant at BM TRADA with particular expertise in timber frame construction.
BM TRADA, part of the Element Group, provides a comprehensive range of independent testing, inspection, certification, technical and training services. We help organisations to demonstrate their business and product credentials, and to improve performance and compliance. We help our customers to make certain that the management systems, supply chain and product certification schemes they operate are compliant and fit for purpose.
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