Energy Sustainability in Built and Urban Environments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Motoasca, Emilia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Agarwal, Avinash Kumar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Breesch, Hilde (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability,
• Subjects: Sustainable architecture.; Buildings-Design and construction.; Building.; Construction.; Engineering, Architectural.; Sustainable development.; Building construction.; Energy efficiency.; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.; Building Construction and Design.; Sustainable Development.; Building Physics, HVAC.; Energy Efficiency.

This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable energy. The volume focuses on smart an...

Table of Contents:

• Analysing the influence of urban planning on the financial and environmental impact of neighborhoods
• The ecological and conservative planning of traditional Vietnam-villages
• Socially inclusive and economically beneficial smart cities
• Affordable housing supply in Belgium - current situation
• Actual situation of high-rise office buildings in Vietnam and strategic development towards sustainability
• Interaction between innovative systems and buildings: a key factor for energy sustainability
• A review of residential grid-connected microgrid energy management strategies for grid power profile smoothing
• Linking neighborhoods into sustainable energy systems
• Wind energy
• Sustainable Cooling with Hybrid Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) System and Hydrogen Energy Storage
• Energy sustainability through the use of thermoelectric materials in waste heat recovery processes applied to residential buildings
• Sustainability in ports: implementation of energy storage to reduce greenhouse gases emissions
• Novel method and molten salt electrolytic cell for implementing a hydrogen fuel, sustainable, closed clean energy cycle on a large scale
• Denmark on its way towards a 100% renewable energy-system
• Weather data for building energy performance in a context of climate change: literature review and future outlook
• Energy efficiency in residential buildings in Vietnam - high-tech or low-tech?
• Sustainable construction practices in West African countries
• The persistence of alternative energy mutual fund performance in Spanish market
• Community participation in urban planning for sustainable development in Vietnam- Prospect and Challenges
• Analyzing the alternative energy mutual funds' performance in Spanish market.