Overview
- Informs experts and students on energy-efficient problem solving by using timber and glass as materials
- Discusses how to improve the energy efficiency of timber buildings
- Connects an architectural design approach with structural research to show the possibilities of stabilizing a building with increased glazing
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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About this book
The book discusses combining timber and glass, two eco materials, with a view to developing an optimal contemporary energy-efficient house with an attractive design. Furthermore, the book connects an architectural design approach with structural research to show the possibilities of stabilizing the building with an increased size of the glazing.
Research results where the glazing is considered as a load-bearing structural element are therefore presented in a manner leading to the development of an optimal model of the timber-glass house, considering both the structural and energy related aspects. The presented research work can be useful to designers and future experts in their planning of optimal energy-efficient timber buildings.
The study is based on using timber and glass, which were previously neglected as construction materials. With suitable technological development and appropriate use, they are nowadays becoming essential construction materials as far as energy efficiency is concerned. However, their combined use is extremely complicated, from both the constructional point of view as well as from that of energy efficiency and sets multiple traps for designers. A good knowledge of their advantages and drawbacks is thus vitally important, which is shown in the present monograph.
Energy-efficient timber-glass houses was selected by the Slovenian National Research Agency as an extraordinary scientific achievement in the field of technical sciences/civil engineering for the year 2013.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. dr. Miroslav Premrov was granted the title of full professor at the University of Maribor in January 2009. From 1999, his major focus of research has been the strengthening of timber-frame buildings, supplemented by the area of their energy-efficiency, primarily through the increased glazing sizes. He is the author of twenty-one works indexed by SCI and the reviewer for the most reputable international journals in the fields of civil engineering structures. He recently published two scientific monographs belonging to the domain of timber structures. As a member of WG 5 he is active in preparations of Slovene standards in the field of timber structures. Since 2012, he has been a head of the Slovenian part in the international research project Load-bearing timber-glass composites.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses
Authors: Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Miroslav Premrov
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5511-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5510-2Published: 11 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7211-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5511-9Published: 30 September 2013
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 128 b/w illustrations
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Building Construction and Design, Building Types and Functions, Wood Science & Technology