Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Principles and Practice of Energy Efficient Design, Third Edition is structured to provide a rigorous and comprehensive technical foundation and coverage to all the various elements inherent in the design of energy efficient and green buildings. Along with numerous new and revised examples, design case studies, and homework problems, the third edition includes the HCB software along with its extensive website material, which contains a wealth of data to support design analysis and planning. Based around current codes and standards, the Third Edition explores the latest technologies that are central to design and operation of today's buildings. It serves as an up-to-date technical resource for future designers, practitioners, and researchers wishing to acquire a firm scientific foundation for improving the design and performance of buildings and the comfort of their occupants. For engineering and architecture students in undergraduate/graduate classes, this comprehensive textbook:
Revised edition of: Heating and cooling of buildings: design for efficiency / Jan F. Kreider, Peter S. Curtiss, Ari Rabl. c2010.
"For me, the main advantage of Heating and Cooling of Buildings is its readability. It has been written in a manner that helps my students to understand concepts that they might otherwise have found difficult to understand?.Chapter 9 is the most comprehensive coverage of heating and cooling design loads - this chapter is what got me interested in the textbook in the first place. The book can also be used by practicing HVAC engineers as a reference."
--Tiyamike Ngonda, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
"Theory and governing equations are presented in an organized manner. The flow of text is quite easy to follow, and covers all topics needed to be taught in a design course."
--Hessam Taherian, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
""I would highly recommend this book and instructor resources to professors for undergraduate or graduate level courses in HVAC design and building energy science, with the expectation that students would keep this book and use it on a day-to-day basis in their careers."
----Andy Walker, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
"The authors have taken great care to update their previous version of this book with the inclusion of several relevant hardware related application chapters and references to current ASHRAE standards."
---Kevin R. Anderson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA