Stay Cool A Design Guide for the Built Environment in Hot Climates

About this book

Guide for planning and design using active design principles and passive means to satisfy human comfort requirements specifically in hot dry or warm humid countries, based on examples of traditional and modern constructions. Koch-Nielsen shows how a design strategy for urban environments and individual buildings, incorporating naturally occurring resources and specific energy-efficient technologies, can create a location, form and structure that promote significant energy-savings.

Contents

- Forewords
- The Contents of this Guide and Its Use
- Introduction
- Climatic Issues
- Thermal Comfort Requirements
- The Built Environment
- The External Environment
- The Building Envelope and its Components
- Thermal Properties of Building Materials and Elements
- Natural Ventilation and Cooling
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Illustration and Design Credits
- Afterword
- Index

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Biography

Holger Koch-Nielsen is Director of the architectural consultancy Development Advisory Group, based in Denmark. Trained both as an architect and as an engineer, he has many years' experience in infrastructure projects, urban planning, administrative and industrial buildings, urban settlements as well as in construction programmes for schools, training centres and low-cost housing, working with development projects for UNESCO, UNOPS, UNDP, UNICEF and National Donors and NGOs. He has also been lecturing in building design issues both in Europe and in developing countries.