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High‐Performance Enclosures: Designing for Comfort, Durability and Sustainability
Author(s) -
Levenson Ken
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2258
Subject(s) - architectural engineering , popularity , sustainability , key (lock) , building envelope , durability , engineering , quality (philosophy) , computer science , political science , law , computer security , ecology , physics , database , thermal , meteorology , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Key to any building's energy consumption levels is the quality of its envelope, comprised of all its enclosing elements. Passive buildings, which do not require costly mechanical systems to keep their users comfortable, are increasing in popularity. But to design them, architects need to engage closely with building science. Citing several recent US examples, including the SU+RE House, Ken Levenson – active in the Passive House movement and a founding partner at Brooklyn, New York company 475 High Performance Building Supply – explains how.