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INTRODUCTION DESIGNING FOR ZERO CARBON
What is clear is that the next generation of buildings, which will be all-electric and eventually zero-carbon, will have to be designed to achieve a certain grid harmony, resulting from the coor- dination of on-site energy generation and storage with the public electric grid, in whatever form this ultimately takes.
Previous Books in This Series
The first volume of these case study books was published in 2014 and focused on ZNE non-res- idential buildings.3 This was followed by two more case study books about ZNE non-residential buildings4,5 published in 2016 and 2018, plus a ZNE residential case study book6 in 2018. Then, following the new awareness of the path to zero-carbon buildings, a case study book about all- electric grid-connected ZNE residential buildings7 was published in 2020.
The Case Study Buildings in This Book
The five non-residential case study buildings in this sixth volume fit the now-ideal characteriza- tion described above to eliminate completely the carbon emissions from new buildings: energy- efficient using state-of-the-art building technologies, cost-effective on-site solar electric systems and all-electric building systems and equipment. In addition, they represent very common build- ing types where the design approaches taken are likely to be readily adaptable to similar types of projects: a public school, a spec office building, a college classroom building renovation, a city services office building and a medical clinic/office. Thus, each of the case studies serves as an excellent model for many of new buildings now being planned that aspire to be zero-carbon emitters.
Only one of the projects performed an embodied carbon analysis and none includes battery storage as a resiliency feature. These are emerging design strategies being considered as the societal effort to reduce carbon emissions intensifies and the nature of the public electric grid is transformed to meet this challenge. No doubt, future editions of these case study books will examine buildings with such features.
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4 Zero Net Energy Case Study Buildings, Volume 2. Softcover copy at Amazon: https://www.
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6 Zero Net Energy Case Study Homes, Volume 1. Softcover copy at Amazon: https://www.
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