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Book The Passive Solar House

Download or read book The Passive Solar House written by James Kachadorian and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and Expanded Edition - Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design Software For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners. True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software, making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the sun. Since The Passive Solar House was first published, passive solar construction expert James Kachadorian has perfected user-friendly, Windows-compatible software to supplement the design process explained in the book by allowing homeowners/designers to enter the specifications of their design and see how changing a variable will affect its energy efficiency. This is the building book for a world of climbing energy costs. Applicable to diverse regions, climates, budgets, and styles of architecture, Kachadorian's techniques translate the essentials of timeless solar design into practical wisdom for today's solar builders. Profiles of successful passive solar design, construction, and retrofit projects from readers of the first edition provide inspiration to first-time homebuilders and renovators alike.

Book The Solar House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Denzer
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 0847840050
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Solar House written by Anthony Denzer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the United States and around the world. The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today. The solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s, and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar houses which were constructed during the previous four decades, beginning with the work of masters of twentieth-century architecture such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, Pietro Belluschi, Edward Durell Stone, and Harwell Hamilton Harris, and continuing with more recent innovations like the German Passivhaus movement and the Heliotrope, the first house to produce more energy than it consumed, and the U.S.-based Solar Decathlon, conceived as a living demonstration laboratory and recently expanded to include contests in Europe and China. Not only are these innovative projects the models for architects exploring environmentally conscious design today, they hold the imagination of the wider public, beginning with the idealism of the 1960s, the pragmatism that accompanied the energy crisis of the 1970s, and continuing into the twenty-first century with the demand for environmentally sustainable living. The first complete study of solar house design through the decades, this volume is a must-have resource for designers today.

Book The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook

Download or read book The Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook written by Steven Winter Associates, Inc. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passive solar design refers to design strategies that minimize or eliminate the need to heat or cool a building mechanically. This sourcebook of details, drawings and case studies of passive solar buildings throughout the U.S. provides is a complete guide to passive solar design and construction.

Book Award winning Passive Solar House Designs

Download or read book Award winning Passive Solar House Designs written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Village Homes  Solar House Designs

Download or read book Village Homes Solar House Designs written by David A. Bainbridge and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Solar House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel D. Chiras
  • Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 1931498121
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Solar House written by Daniel D. Chiras and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved. Yet "natural conditioning"--Heating and cooling with passive solar techniques -- is a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Acknowledging the good intentions of misguided solar designers in the past, the author highlights certain egregious errors and shows how to avoid them. The author shows how to select a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly backup heating system; how to preserve indoor air quality in an airtight, energy-efficient home; and ways of employing green building materials in a naturally conditioned home.

Book Award winning Passive Solar Designs

Download or read book Award winning Passive Solar Designs written by Jeffrey Cook and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1984 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passive Solar Simplified

Download or read book Passive Solar Simplified written by Thomas Doerr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn just what you need to know about passive solar house design for western states"--Page 4 of cover

Book Solar Dwelling Designs

Download or read book Solar Dwelling Designs written by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passive Solar House Basics

Download or read book Passive Solar House Basics written by Peter Van Dresser and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has been in a solar house, on a cold winter day has felt thearmth and comfort of its natural radiant heat. In 1958, solar pioneer Peteran Dresser built his first solar-heated house, one of the two oldest in thenited States. In this book van Dresser lays out in text and illustration therinciples an owner builder will need to know in siting, designing, buildingnd living in their solar house. Several sample house plans, ideas for solarot water heaters, and plans for solar crop dryers give the solar enthusiasthe basic information they will need to begin plans on their efficient home.his book shows that solar energy can be economically harnessed by simpleeans. Means that are within the grasp of the average homeowner and builder.

Book Solar House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry Galloway
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0750658312
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Solar House written by Terry Galloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Galloway provides a unique up-to-date insight into using the most current solar technologies available today. Spanning the life of the project from specific design features to maintenance of property and equipment, the text provides a guide to designing, planning and building a solar house.

Book Passive Solar Architecture

Download or read book Passive Solar Architecture written by David Bainbridge and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce more energy and other resources than they use.

Book Solar Dwelling Design Concepts

Download or read book Solar Dwelling Design Concepts written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Solar House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terry Galloway
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-05-16
  • ISBN : 1136366024
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Solar House written by Terry Galloway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house. The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices needed for the design, operation and maintenance of the solar home. Each of the technologies of the house, such as space heating and cooling, domestic hot water and electric power technologies, are critiqued from the point of view of the owner/resident, with the author using his thirty years experience of living in a solar home. This provides home owners who are thinking of going solar with first hand evidence of best practice, and provides the architect and designer with the knowledge of how to best satisfy their clients needs.

Book The Solar Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Freeman
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780811724463
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Solar Home written by Mark Freeman and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New methods of breaking into corporate networks are resulting in major losses. This book provides the latest information on how to guard against attacks and inform the IT manager of the products that can detect and prevent break-ins. Methods for authentication and encryption are explained, enabling the reader to understand when and where these developments apply. The latest incident handling procedures for detecting and recovering data from new viruses, in order to protect against major losses for corporations, are also included.

Book Solar Dwelling Design Concepts

Download or read book Solar Dwelling Design Concepts written by AIA Research Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is about solar energy and how its use for heating and cooling will affect dwelling design and site planning. It has been prepared as a brief introduction for consumers, designers, and builders interested in solar heating and cooling. Beginning with a brief history of solar energy applications, a more thorough description of solar components and how they are organized into heating, cooling and domestic hot water systems follows. Next, factors which influence the design of solar dwellings and systems are discussed. The remain portion of the publication illustrates dwelling and site design concepts responsive to these factors for various housing types, solar systems, and climates.

Book Designs for 20 Prototype Passive Solar Homes

Download or read book Designs for 20 Prototype Passive Solar Homes written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiated in the Spring of 1979, the MASEC Solar 80" Passive Solar Home Design Program produced 20 home designs.