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Edited by Mat Santamouris

This book offers the latest knowledge and techniques on passive cooling, enabling building professionals to understand the state of the art and employ relevant new strategies. With separate chapters on comfort, urban microclimate, solar control, ventilation, ground cooling and evaporative and radiative cooling, this authoritative text will also be invaluable for architects, engineers and students working on building physics and low-energy design.

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Hardback, 978-1-84407-263-7, August 2007, RRP £80.00, Get Sust! Price £64.00

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Designing with Solar Power: A Source Book for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)

Edited by Deo Prasad and Mark Snow

Each chapter of this precisely detailed and informative book has been prepared by an international expert in a specific area related to the development, use and application of building-integrated photovoltaics (BiPV). Chapters not only cover the basics of solar power and electrical concepts, but also investigate  the ways in which photovoltaics can be integrated into the design and creation of buildings equipped for the demands of the 21st century.

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JOURNAL OF THE MONTH - Click here to download a free PDF of ‘Effect of integrating wind catchers with curved roofs on natural ventilation performance in buildings’ by Omar S Asfour and Mohamed B Gadi, in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, Volume 2, pp289-304, 2006.