Microclimatic Landscape Design : Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Microclimatic Landscape Design : Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

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Book Description
Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Microclimatic Landscape Design shows designers how to work with nature to create climatically pleasant spaces for human activities. With remarkable clarity, it covers both the scientific background and the design techniques needed for shaping spaces that increase comfort and reduce energy consumption. This comprehensive, environmentally-sensitive guide:

• Presents the basic principles of microclimatology and explains how objects in the landscape affect climate to create microclimates
• Describes methods for modifying the key variables in a microclimate, including radiation, wind, temperature, humidity, and precipitation
• Shows how to create successful, comfortable spaces under a wide variety of climatic conditions
• Explains energy budgets and the effects of landscape on energy use in buildings
• Includes useful formulas for determining human thermal comfort, estimating solar radiation absorbed by a person, and estimating wind in a given landscape

For landscape architects, architects, contractors, and planners, Microclimatic Landscape Design is a concise, practical, and indispensable guide to improving the comfort of outdoor spaces and reducing the heating or cooling loads on buildings.

The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
This indispensable text describes how microclimates are formed and provides design techniques for modifying microclimates to create more comfortable environments outdoors and to increase energy efficiency indoors. Focuses on planning and design for modifying the key variables of microclimates, including wind, radiation, temperature, humidity and precipitation.

Microclimatic Landscape Design : Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency

Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency,Robert D. Brown,Terry J. Gillespie,Wiley,0471056677,Architecture,Climatic factors,Landscape,Landscape Design And Planting,Landscape architecture,Microclimatology,Architecture / Landscape,Environmental science,Garden design & planning,Landscape art & architecture

Book Contents:

1. Midwest Cottage Gardening
2. Month-To-Month Gardening, New Mexico (Month-to-Month Gardening Series, Tips for Designing, Growing & Maintaing Your Garden)
3. Native Plant Primer, The : Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers for Natural Gardens
4. Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
5. Organic Kitchen Garden
6. Ornamental Grasses of the Southeast
7. Ornamental Shrubs, Climbers and Bamboos: Excluding Roses and Rhododendrons
8. Ortho's All About Flowering Trees & Shrubs
9. Ortho's All About the Easiest Roses to Grow
10. Pay Dirt, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition : How to Raise and Sell Herbs and Produce for Serious Cash

Book Contents

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