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House Rating Schemes

From Energy to Comfort Base

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Maria Kordjamshidi

    1. , Faculty of Engineering, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran

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  • Includes a new method to improve building rating schemes in the future
  • Easily guides researchers and students on methods for classifying buildings in terms of energy efficiency
  • Includes important notes and information for sustainable building developers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 1-6

  3. House Rating Schemes

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 7-29

  4. Thermal Comfort

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 31-51

  5. Modelling Efficient Building Design: Efficiency for Low Energy or No Energy?

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 53-115

  6. Assembling a House Energy Ratings (HER) and House Free Running Ratings (HFR) Scheme

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 117-129

  7. Appendix

    • Maria Kordjamshidi
    Pages 131-140

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 141-145
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"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

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  • , Faculty of Engineering, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran

    Maria Kordjamshidi

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