Energy People Buildings

<p>Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used in buildings and how to drive down operational energy use – whether you’re an architect student client building services engineer contractor building operator or other stakeholder. Focusing on evidence from feedback on buildings in use it explains what it takes to get them to perform as expected as well as the reasons why they often fail. </p><p>Energy People Buildings draws extensively on the findings of studies UK government-funded building performance evaluations and on original research into seven case studies from across the UK and abroad that have achieved exemplary energy use through building performance feedback. </p><p>Providing a clear roadmap to understanding aspects that impact building users’ comfort and satisfaction it also outlines the factors behind energy use and how to track it across the life of a project to ensure that your building performs as intended.</p><p>Case studies include: the Everyman Theatre Liverpool; Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center Colorado; and Carrowbreck Meadow Norwich.</p><p>Featured architects: AHMM AHR Architype Hamson Barron Smith Haworth Tompkins Henning Larsen Architects and ZGF Architects.</p>