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Donita07
Joined: 07 Jul 2007
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Location: Singapore
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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: What is Energy-Conserving Design? |
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I'm an architectural thesis student, my project is a training and research facility which aims for sustainability in the context of a country's development. That is why I've chosen "Sustainable Architecture" aka "Green Architecture" to be the concept of this thesis.
I've chosen a more specific, I need help from the experts of what's applicable for my thesis among the Energy-Conserving Design techniques since I'm not much familiar with it. I'm reading and I'll be reading stuffs to inject in my brain, kindly help me on this one, I'll apreciate your posts and reply.
I'd explain further if you want me to but for now, I'm just interested of the know-hows and technical aspects etc of Sustainable Architecture focusing on Energy-Conserving Design.
Thank you very much and may God bless you! 
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lekizz
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:35 am Post subject: |
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The Whole Building Design Guide has a good basic introduction to sustainable design - http://www.greenerbuildings.com/wbdg.cfm - a lot of which is related to conservation of energy.
The vast majority of energy usage takes place in the day-to-day running of buildings - heating and cooling in particular. I'm not familiar with the climate of Singapore, but I expect it is quite hot. Therefore you will probably want to reduce the need for mechanical cooling systems in particular, using shading devices to control the input of sunlight/heat...
Of course, almost all sustainable design saves energy somewhere - if you conserve and recycle water you reduce the burden on your city's infrastructure; if you construct your building robustly with low embodied energy materials, you reduce the need somewhere to extract and refine materials from the ground... |
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