Photovoltaics in the Built Environment: A Design Guide for Architects and Engineers

International Energy Agency, Friedrich Sick, Thomas Erge,

ISBN 10: 1873936591 / ISBN 13: 9781873936597

Published by Earthscan Publications January 1996, 1996

About this Item

This text aims to enable architects and engineers without specialist knowledge to begin to integrate photovoltaic systems into their designs. Details are provided on components, methods of integration into buildings, system design, and installation and maintenance. Methods of maximizing the overall solar contribution to a building are described, as well as how to integrate PV effectively with the building structure, how to optimize the economics, and the relationship of PV with other elements of a building's energy system. This handbook is intended as a design guide enabling building designers to make photovoltaics in buildings an architecturally appealing and energetically effective option. Recent achievements and advances are also incorporated into the text. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Photovoltaics in the Built Environment: A Design Guide for Architects and Engineers
• Publisher: Earthscan Publications January 1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873936591
• ISBN 13: 9781873936597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture - Eco - Energy

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Synopsis

The integration of photovoltaics (PV) into buildings goes beyond energy saving by providing a clean and elegant way of actually generating electricity. There are already numerous successful examples and rapid technological improvements promise expansion of PV's present niche market to that of a major energy provider of the 21st century.

This handbook is the outcome of a five year programme which took place under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. Architects and solar experts from 13 countries addressed the wide range of engineering and architectural issues involved in the successful integration of PV into buildings.

It demonstrates how to maximise the overall solar contribution to the building; integrate PV effectively with the building structure; clarify the relationship of PV with other elements of the building's energy system; optimise the system economics.

It forms a thorough design guide that covers all aspects if the subject and will enable all building designers, engineers and property owners to make the integration of PV into buildings an architecturally appealing and energetically effective option.

About the Author

The principal editors are F. Sick and T. Erge from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany.