High-Performance Buildings Simplified: Designing, Constructing, and Operating Sustainable Commercial Buildings

"Serves as introductory textbook or concise resource for the basics of high-performance building design, including building design and commissioning; sustainability and water and energy conservation; indoor environmental quality, materials selection, construction, and operations and maintenance; energy informatics, smart grid, and resilience; and new and future trends. Uses familiar language and practical exercises, provides and explains industry-standard terms, includes self-guided and instructor-led exercises, and makes use of case studies and more than 30 supplemental files containing additional in-depth information and relevant articles round out the practical content. For use by engineering students, students from other disciplines, the new engineer just starting out in their career, or anyone interested in resource-efficient and environmentally friendly building principles"--