
Nonresidential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations F19. Residential Cooling and Heating Load Calculations F18. Sound and Vibration INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY F09. Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Cycles F03.

Publication Date: Ĭontributors Preface Technical Committees, Task Groups, Technical Resource Groups, and Multidisciplinary Task Groups PRINCIPLES F01. Compared to the second edition, in this third edition the text has partially been revised and extended.This file is licensed to John Murray ( ).

The physical transport processes determine the performance of the building envelope and may influence the serviceability of the structure and the whole building. The book deals with the description, analysis and modeling of heat, air and moisture transport in building assemblies and whole buildings with main emphasis on the building engineering applications, including examples. Today, building physics has become a key player on the road to a performance based building design. Through the application of physical knowledge and its combination with information coming from other disciplines, the field helps to understand the physical phenomena governing building parts, building envelope, whole buildings and built environment performance, although for the last the wording "urban physics" is used. In some countries, fire safety is also included. The discipline embraces domains such as heat and mass transfer, building acoustics, lighting, indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency. It invokes some undergraduate knowledge of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics as needed, to enable students to appreciate thermal comfort engineering without the need to seek out other textbooks.īuilding Physics Heat Air and Moisture Book Review:īad experiences with construction quality, the energy crises of 19, complaints about "sick buildings", thermal, acoustical, visual and olfactory discomfort, the need for good air quality, the move towards more sustainability - all these have accelerated the development of a field that, for a long time, was hardly more than an academic exercise: building physics (in English speaking countries sometimes referred to as building science). Illustrative figures, anecdotal banter, and ironical analogies interject the necessary technical humdrum to provide timeous stimuli in the midst of arduous technical details.This book is primarily for senior undergraduate engineering students interested in engineering human thermal comfort.

It is therefore imperative for everyone, decision-makers and engineers alike, involved with the future of energy to be appropriately acquainted with HVAC.Lecture Notes on Engineering Human Thermal Comfort explains the quintessence of engineering human thermal comfort through straight-forward writing designed to help students better comprehend the materials presented. Today, a large portion of the developed world's current energy demands are used to artificially keep the temperatures of our environments comfortable. Human thermal comfort, namely in the areas of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (collectively known as 'HVAC'), is ubiquitous wherever human habitation may be found.
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