Design and construction of high performance homes : building envelopes, renewable energies and integrated practice / edited by Franca Trubiano.

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Editor´ Preface: High Performance Homes: Metrics, Ethics and Design / anca Trubiano -- Introduction: Household Power: How Much is Enough? / William W Braham. -- Part 1: Building Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design. Energy Free Architectural Design - The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades / Franca Trubiano ; Translucent Building Skins - Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission / Franca Trubiano ; Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms / Kathy Velikov and Geoffrey Thun ; Nano-Materials + Super Insulator = Aerogel / Franca Trubiano. -- Part 2: Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations. The Design Integration of Renewable Energies / Franca Trubiano and Russell Gentry ; Systems Integrated Photovoltaics, SIPV / Jeffrey Brownson ; Building Systems, Controls and Automation / Russell Gentry ; Building Performance and Computational Simulation / Yun Kyu Yi. -- Part 3: Integrated Practice and Residential Construction. Integrated Project Delivery - Contracting for High Performance / Ryan Smith and Joerg Rugemer ; Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining the Team of Experts / Lisa Iulo ; The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated Housing in Denmark / Anne Beim and Kasper Sanchez Vibaek ; From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication / Tristan Al-Haddad. -- Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies. LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System / Robert Dunay, Joseph Wheeler and Robert Schubert ; Project Icarus: Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof / Franca Trubiano ; North House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System / Geoffrey Thun and Kathy Velikov ; Modular Building; Three Scales/Three Strategies / Lisa Iulo.