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Increasing awareness of energy use-and waste-places additional onus on building managers, operators, and engineers, already bearing considerable responsibility for operating cost containment. Fortunately, research, technological developments, and practical experience provide a number of procedures and techniques that can make a significant impact on a building's energy use and expense.Energy Audit of Building Systems offers a systematic, engineering approach to a wide range of measures and opportunities for saving energy and reducing operating costs in both residential and commercial buildings. The author first provides general tools and procedures for performing building energy audits, including economic analysis, utility rate structures, and building energy simulation. His focus then turns to various subsystems, exploring the techniques and technologies that can reduce energy use or operating costs. Each chapter includes simplified calculation methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of various efficiency measures. Other books on energy efficiency and management are either out of date or offer only qualitative descriptions of energy conservation measures. Energy Audit of Building Systems incorporates the latest energy efficiency technologies, precise calculation procedures, and virtual step-by-step guidelines on evaluating, analyzing, and improving upon energy efficiency in buildings.

Product Description: Updated with new material on thermodynamics to provide a blueprint for controlling energy use in buildings, this reference will save you countless hours doing energy feasibility studies and associated calculations. A practicing engineer, the author shares his secrets for simplifying complex energy calculations and shows how to use his unique, time-saving methods...read more

Product Description: Newly revised and edited, this bestselling handbook is updated with new chapters on energy assessment and computer software. It includes detailed analysis of the latest technologies and software available for optimizing the audit process...read more

Here is an indispensable reference that will save you countless hours doing energy feasibility studies and associated calculations. The author will share with you his secrets for simplifying complex energy calculations, and show you how to use his unique, time-saving methods. You'll learn how to cut through a maze of detail using innovative decision-making tools to determine whether you should invest real time and money into developing the details of a project under consideration. Numerous energy projects involving pumps, fans, motors, insulation, and heat recovery are covered, with complete calculation details and solutions methodology presented.

Public and private incentives -- including the EPA Green Lights program, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and utility Demand Side Management programs -- have motivated companies to undertake major lighting and retrofit projects at substantial cost. The payoff: long-term energy savings.The first step is a careful audit. Subsequent steps -- calculating savings and potential payback -- are only as accurate as the survey that they are based on. This practical handbook provides facilities management professionals with the solid, useful information needed to accomplish accurate surveys and audits: -- A systematic approach to assessing the condition and performance of existing installations-- New technologies and protocols, along with the latest products-- Worksheet format and step-by-step approach-- Specific applications for a wide variety of facilities, from huge industrial parks to banks, theaters, and restaurants (view table of contents)