Architecture of Natural Cooling

<p>Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs and carbon emissions. It provides architects engineers and policy makers with a ‘how-to’ guide to the application of natural cooling in new and existing buildings. It demonstrates through reference to numerous examples that natural cooling is viable in most climates around the world.</p><p>This completely revised and expanded second edition includes:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>An overview of natural cooling past and present.</li> <li>Guidance on the principles and strategies that can be adopted.</li> <li>A review of the applicability of different strategies.</li> <li>Explanation of simplified tools for performance assessment.</li> <li>A review of components and controls.</li> <li>A detailed evaluation of case studies from the USA Europe India and China.</li> </ul><p>This book is not just for the technical specialist as it also provides a general grounding in how to avoid or minimise air-conditioning. Importantly it demonstrates that understanding our environment rather than fighting it will help us to live sustainably in our rapidly warming world.</p>