Author(s): Friedrich Sick and Thomas Erge
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.; No Edition Stated edition (January 1996)
Hardcover: 296 pages
ISBN: 1873936591
ISBN-13: 978-1873936597
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Photovoltaics provides the means to go beyond saving energy in buildings to a point where buildings become energy producers. There are already numerous successful examples, and this design option is now available to all building planners, not only PV specialists. This book aims to enable architects and engineers without special knowledge to integrate photovoltaic systems into their designs. The chapters provide details of:
- components
- architectural integration
- system design
- installation and maintenance
- the relationship of PV with other elements of the building’s energy system
- how to maximize the overall solar contribution to the building and how to optimize the economics
The handbook forms a thorough design guide enabling all building designers to make photovoltaics an architecturally appealing and energy efficient option. The experienced PV designer will find this book of value for the significant, recent achievements and advances which are incorporated in the text.
This handbook is the outcome of the five year effort within the Solar Heating and Cooling Program of the International Energy Agency. Architects and solar experts from 13 countries around the world took part.
296 pages, 1996, Hardcover
