Title page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Energy efficient building design -- 1.1. Energy efficiency definition -- 1.2. Energy efficient building design steps -- 1.3. Energy efficient building design institutional inefficiency grounds ant its prevention -- 2. Hygiene requirements -- 2.1. Thermal comfort. Indoor Environment -- 2.1.1. Thermal comfort criteria -- 2.1.2. Thermal comfort factors -- 2.1.3. Outdoor air design parameters -- 2.2. Indoor air quality and health problems -- 2.2.1. Design assumptions -- 2.2.2. Sick building syndrome -- 3. Heat retention and energy saving -- 3.1. Total annual energy demand -- 3.2. Building envelope thermal properties -- 3.2.1. Transmission loss of a building -- 3.2.2. Building envelope thermal transmission and thermal resistance values -- 3.2.3. Transmission losses during the heating season -- 3.2.4. One room and total building transmission loss -- 3.3. Specific heat loss -- 3.3.1. Residential buildings -- 3.3.2. Commercial and industrial buildings -- 3.4. Heat gains -- 3.5. Ventilation loss -- 3.5.1. Residential buildings -- 3.5.2. Public buildings -- 3.6. Energy and water demand for domestic hot water -- 3.7. Building energy performance certification -- 3.8. Energy for cooling -- 4. Technical solutions -- 4.1. Space heating -- 4.1.1. Heating devices -- 4.1.2. Roadway ice melting -- 4.2. Ventilation and air-conditioning -- 4.3. HVAC system selection -- 4.3.1. System selection factors -- 4.3.2. Mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning systems -- 4.3.3. The role of building planning -- 5. Energy saving -- 5.1. Extracted air heat recovery -- 5.2. Space heating water -- 5.3. Cooling water -- 5.4. Demand controlled ventilation (variable volume system) -- 5.5. Night cooling -- 6. Heat source -- 6.1. What is a condensing boiler? -- 6.2. Annual efficiency -- 6.3. Multiple boiler systems
6.4. Piping possibilities -- 6.5. District heating as heat source -- 7. Plumbing, sewage -- 8. Localization of a building service equipment in a building -- 8.1. Requirements for intake and exhaust openings -- 8.1.1. Intake openings -- 8.1.2. Exhaust openings -- 8.1.3. The distance between intake and exhaust openings -- 8.1.4. Use of air filters -- 8.1.5. Thermal insulation -- 8.2. Airtightness of the building -- 8.3. Space requirements for building service systems and components -- 8.3.1. General -- 8.3.2. Space requirements for plant rooms and for air handling systems -- 8.3.3. Economic aspects -- 8.4. Air distribution -- 8.4.1. Chilled beams -- 8.4.2. Displacement ventilation -- 8.4.3. Air supply in upper zone through small orifices -- 8.4.4. Air supply through diffuzers -- 8.4.5. Underfloor air distribution systems -- 9. Effects and deficiencies of thermographic identification of building enclosure -- 9.1. Principle and practice -- 9.2. Identification of building envelope anomalies -- 10. Case studies of an energy efficient building -- 10.1. Residential buildings -- 10.2. Public buildings -- Bibliography
