Handbook Table of Contents ready!
After many hours of long discussions, we are pleased to announce that the partners finally agreed upon the planned structure of the Handbook. It will start with a deep dive into life-cycle thinking condisering the environmental impacts of housing.
Then detailed insights are provided about how we can reduce the impacts from the design stage through the building, renovation until how to properly dispose the wastes that are generated. Last but not least, two whole chapters will be given to one of the most important topic in buildings: various ingenious or simple ways to reduce heating and cooling energy demand. Please note that the handbook is being developed and will be posted on the website after finalization, so stay tuned! It will be available to download in whole and chapter-by-chapter in Hungarian and English languages.
The detailed Table of Contents will be the following:
Introduction
1 Building and its environment
1.1 The environmental load of buildings
1.2 Sustainable construction
2 Life Cycle Assessment
2.1 What is life cycle assement (LCA)?
2.2 The role of LCA in the construction industry
2.3 Market tools for the environmental sustainability
3 Possibilities to improve sustainability at different stages of a building
3.1 Design
3.2 Use
3.3 Renovation, maintenance
3.4 Demolition
4 Products, structures, mechanical systems
5 Energy conscious architecture- passive solutions
5.1 Heat balance of a building
5.2 Passive heating solutions
5.3 Passive cooling solutions
6 Active solutions
6.1 Heating, cooling, ventillation
6.2 Lighting
6.3 Renewable energy sources
6.4 Smart home
7 Legal regulation
7.1 General legal framework for construction in Hungary
7.2 Legal regulation in Italy
7.3 Finnish building regulations and upcoming alignment with the Finnish climate policy
8 Summary
9 Annexes
