Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency

This book provides a guide to making retrofits happen, offering benefits such as cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing resale value, reducing carbon emissions, and creating a healthier place to live. It covers draught-proofing, insulation, damp ventilation, heating and cooling, electrical efficiency, renewable energy, water use, and re-use, as well as materials, life cycles, and nature protection. It also provides a comprehensive resource handbook for building professionals and contractors, students, and homeowners interested in efficiency (cash and carbon) savings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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A retrofit brings a multitude of advantages, including significant reductions in electricity and heating bills, enhanced resale value for homes, substantial cuts in carbon emissions, and the creation of a healthier living environment. This comprehensive guidebook aims to empower individuals and professionals to make retrofits a reality. It delves into various aspects, such as draught-proofing, insulation, damp ventilation, heating and cooling efficiency, renewable energy, water use and re-use, materials life cycles, and the integration of nature to protect against climate change impacts. By modeling energy flows and embodied energy, the book explores how we can meet the ambitious goal of reducing carbon emissions from dwellings by eighty percent by 2050. Projects can be applied to apartment blocks, recent builds, and older, solid-walled properties. Enriched with helpful diagrams and photographs, along with valuable pointers for further information, this resource handbook serves as a comprehensive guide for building professionals, contractors, students, and homeowners seeking to achieve significant efficiency (both in terms of cash and carbon) savings.

Weight: 354g
Dimension: 246 x 189 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367787530