Energy Management in Buildings The Earthscan Expert Guide

About this book

The role of the energy manager has evolved significantly as the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has become increasingly important. Managers are now technical experts, negotiators, construction project managers, procurement specialists, efficiency advocates and often provide energy services to others.

This comprehensive book covers how to:
- conduct an energy audit
- plan a monitoring and verification strategy
- make any energy-saving campaign successful
- evaluate and make the financial case for energy-saving measures
- make use of free energy for lighting and managing heat loss and gain.

It also contains special chapters on:
- ventilation, heating and cooling
- demand management through automated systems
- lighting
- most requirements of industrial facilities
- regulatory requirements in Britain, Europe and the United States
- the use of smart meters and monitoring
- how to achieve zero energy buildings
- the use of renewable energy

For all professional energy, building and facilities managers, energy consultants, students, trainees and academics. It takes the reader from basic concepts to the latest advanced thinking, with principles applicable anywhere in the world and in any climate.

Contents

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: Measuring energy consumption
Chapter 2: Metering; Energy Professional Interview: Ashley Baxter
Chapter 3: Making change happen; Energy Professional Interview: Lisa Gingell
Chapter 4: Airtightness and insulation; Energy Professional Interview: Phil Bilyard
Chapter 5: Lighting; Energy Professional Interview: Andrew Bray
Chapter 6: Passive heating, cooling and air conditioning; Energy Professional Interview: James White
Chapter 7: Active heating, cooling and air conditioning
Chapter 8: Minimising water use; Energy Professional Interview: Robert Kelk
Chapter 9: Renewable electricity; Energy Professional Interview: Kit Oung
Chapter 10: Making the financial case

Conclusion
Appendix

Customer Reviews

Biography

David Thorpe is community manager of Sustainable Cities Collective, an online community for leaders of major metropolitan areas, urban planning and sustainability professionals. Until 2013 he was for 13 years News Editor of Energy and Environmental Management magazine, for which website he also wrote a weekly op-ed column. He is also the author of several books and hundreds of articles on related subjects. Formerly director of publications at the Centre for Alternative Technology, he has written two other books in the Earthscan Expert series, Sustainable Home Refurbishment and Solar Technology, and several B2B ebooks for the publisher DoSustainability.