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The 'Interiors Construction Manual' supports planners in their daily work as a practical planning aid and reference work with the relevant standards, guidelines, reference details and constructional solutions, all illustrated by built example projects.

An important recent conquest, a decisive factor for building an effective intervention vision for the existing consolidated or even historical building stock, is the acquisition of the technological/ design knowledge accompanying the awareness that interventions to reduce the energy requirement may exclude invasive measures on the envelope, if interventions on the forms of energy provision and on the usable air conditioning systems are planned. [...]the position of the existing buildings integrated into the urban context makes them well connected to the functions of supporting the activities and the existing networks. The analysis measured the systems, classifying them by age and type, and by consumption density. [...]the surrounding territory was analyzed from the standpoint of potential energy generation, as there are numerous biogas systems connected to cogeneration plants. The energy upgrade project identified the strategies to prevent invasive interventions on the ancient envelopes, also by identifying, in parallel, the alternative measures for reducing the energy requirement. Since the region has a great production of lumber, cogeneration plants were planned for the generation of thermal energy, deployed on the territory to cover - with the delivery circuit for high-temperature needs, and with the return circuit - the systems in the most recently constructed buildings. First of all, this means that the energy requirements connected with space in neighbourhoods are closely correlated with the potential for using renewable energies at a central or local level.

Soccer stadiums, airports, theaters, museums - it falls to very few architects to tackle spectacular building tasks like these. The everyday work of most architects is more often focused on \"manageable\" projects like the renovation, remodeling, or rebuilding of single- and multi-family houses, schools, and offices. Whatever the nature of the building task, interior construction is always a significant design and qualitative challenge that calls for highly detailed technical expertise. After all, it affects the realm that will be brought to life and utilized by the user when the task is finished, and whose aesthetic and functional serviceability will be put to the test each and every day. The Interior Construction Manual supports planners in their daily work as a practical planning aid and reference work with the relevant standards, guidelines, reference details, and constructional solutions, all illustrated by built example projects. It brings together the crucial facts on all aspects of interior construction and presents the key fundamentals of building physics, fire protection, interior construction systems, and openings. In addition, it offers concrete tips on integrated planning approaches, energy and sustainability issues, materials used in interior construction, hazardous substances, and dealing with building services and light planning.

In future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply be expected to design them. With its wealth of facts, this book serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from the basic evaluation stage through conception and implementation planning all the way to building operation. The building-related characteristics of the various climatic zones form the basis for the made-to-measure development of integrated building solutions. Well-conceived graphics illustrate planning contexts and facilitate efficient planning decisions and realistic predimensioning. Materials, systems, and technologies are described, and their areas of application are pointed out. Reference parameters, costs, and the presentation of interrelationships equip the planner to make a strategic and well-informed selection.

Examples of how the principles articulated above are put into practice include initiatives of research and experimentation produced by the Architectural Technology and Design Technology for years, which for years are being developed and stratifying in the world and in Italy (Matteoli, Peretti, 2013; Losasso, 2014; Lucarelli, Mussinelli, Trombetta, 2016), anc recently are focusing on several strategic axes: on reducing climate-altering emissions, energy consumption and operating costs, as well as the use of tangible and intangible resources; on rationally distinguishing and collecting waste m materials in general, together with the different phases of the life cycle on all levels and at all scales: the individual component, the building, the urban district, the city, the territory; on preserving and enhancing the quality of life and the environment through initiatives addressing the expansion, development and spread of clean energy from renewable sources, the bioclimatic quality of confined, intermediate and external spaces, along with environmental wellbeing in a broader sense; on reutilising recycled materials or construction components from structures no longer in use, plus left-over materials from construction sites; on upgrading existing resources, so as to retool, restore reuse and maintain them, and on regenerating urban districts and cities. The ongoing translation into practice of the developments generated by research in recent years has led to the birth of nothing less than brand-new categories of construction products, which, having been given the name of 'variable property materials, or VPM, offer, among the many results of these developments still in progress, characteristics specifically studied and designed to increase the capacity of such materials for dynamic interaction with factors involving the environment, the climate and energy (1); 2. enhancement of the natural passive bioclimatic behaviour of building organisms considered both in their entirety and as part of the systems of their urban settings or environmental contexts (Daniels, 2013), all of which entails, in addition to improving factors of environmental wellbeing and liveability, lowering the energy needs of the entire unit involved in the initiative; 3. experimentation with techniques, technology, components and materials of ever increasing ecological value and ever lower levels of \"grey\" energy (Petzet, Heilmeyer, 2012), this also leads, indirectly, to lower overall consumption of energy in operating procedures, something that can be accomplished by drawing on the most advanced research efforts at all levels and scales - indeed, today scale can practically be considered to no longer exist, with everything from the individual component to the overall territory being covered - based on the most far-reaching interpretation of the Life Cycle vision, in the direction of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (Valdivia et al., 2011), which must necessarily characterise any process involving the conceptualisation, planning and execution of initiatives in our constructed realities; 4. research into forms of energy selfproduction utilising renewable sources increasingly integrated into building organisms, and therefore generated onsite, being based to a growing extent on the use of material resources that effectively prove to be renewable (Shaikh et al., 2014) (such as organic and dyesensitised solar cells in place of those made with silicon)(2); 5. distribution and sharing on networks - in forms that prove increasingly dynamic and adaptable over time to the needs manifested by various categories of architecture, servicing the different functions drawn up by users, as well as the variety of need that can arise in a given day or in the course of the seasons - of energy produced in 'clean' (with emphasis on the fact that 'clean' means totally - and not merely partially - free of harmful emissions, the main cause of global warming and, more on general, of the climatic alterations currently underway) (El-Khoury et al., 2012)(3). First of all, attentive analysis of the existing housing stock must be carried out, without any preconceptions, but only a desire for more thorough, in-depth knowledge, classifying the structures by age, the technological systems used in the architecture, the types of plant-engineering systems involved and the operating temperature of the systems of thermal regulation (hearting and air-conditioning). Moving from the size of components to that of whole wall-systems or roofsystems able to interact dynamically in accordance with changes in climatic and environmental conditions, the importance of experimentation related to the following must also be stressed: - 'dynamic-air solar5 walls (at the present time, dynamic trombe walls are undergoing interesting evolution and development), able to transfer to the consolidated performance features of passive solar walls the capacity to interact in real time with environmental factor changes, above all changes in sunlight during the day and seasons; - envelopes featuring micromotors potentially linked to both user and network operation and regulation of building management systems as the key elements of a system able to receive data and information related to environmental conditions for which they are programmed through sensors and IT networks (within buildings or belonging to a wider, more complex external network), and to transmit them in real time to implementors' that allow for transformation of parts of the envelope5s configuration, including on a small scale, through the action of the micromotors. 2Reflections on the establishment on a systemic footing of resources generated in renewable fashion, as well as on their redistribution, starting with the central importance of their accessibility, necessarily set the stage, and with noteworthy impetus, for research to seek out a renewed concept of sustainability driven by the triple vector of environmental, social and economic concerns, and which, at the same time, can prove capable of engaging in a dialogue with the three all-important terms of equity, inclusiveness and adaptability, all with the focus firmly placed on the question of energy - the third fundamental term in the title of this essay - as constituting one of the epoch-making issues to be addressed and resolved, even if this means drawing on a totally new way of thinking, conceiving and perceiving the city, so as to bring into play the problems presented - as well as the opportunities offered - by the issue of energy within the context of the modernday urban landscape. 3It should be noted that the traditional paradigm for the distribution of energy, starting from a centralised point of departure, with uninterrupted dissemination and extension, is giving way, in conceptual terms, to a system of tangible and intangible networks consisting of sets of public axes and infrastructures that are strong and efficient, combined with urban nodes and conglomerations set on a more \"human\" scale, meaning one at which accessibility, environmental balance, energy efficiency, bioclimatic performance, the comfort level of open and confined spaces, social value, safety and solidarity can be safeguarded and optimised.

Fußballstadien, Flughäfen, Theater oder Museen – solch spektakuläre Projekte dürfen nur wenige Architekten zu ihren Bauaufgaben zählen. Oft geht es im Alltagsgeschäft um „überschaubarere“ Planungen wie den Umbau, Ausbau oder Neubau von Ein- oder Mehrfamilienhäusern, Schulen oder Büros. Wie sich die Bauaufgabe auch gestaltet, der Ausbau stellt immer eine große qualitative und gestalterische Herausforderung dar und erfordert präzises Fachwissen. Betrifft er doch den Bereich, der nach der Fertigstellung vom Nutzer belebt und genutzt wird, dessen ästhetische wie funktionale Gebrauchstauglichkeit Tag für Tag auf die Probe gestellt wird.Der Ausbau Atlas dient dem Planer bei seiner täglichen Arbeit als praxisnahe Planungshilfe und Nachschlagewerk mit den relevanten Normen, Richtlinien, Leitdetails und anschaulichen Konstruktionslösungen am Beispiel gebauter Projekte. Er fasst alle wesentlichen Fakten rund um das Thema Ausbau zusammen und vermittelt die wichtigsten Grundlagen im Bereich Bauphysik, Brandschutz, Ausbausysteme und Öffnungen. Darüber hinaus liefert das Buch konkrete Hinweise zu integralen Planungsansätzen, Nachhaltigkeits- und energetischen Aspekten, Materialien im Innenraum, Schadstoffen und dem Umgang mit Haustechnik und Lichtplanung.

Bioklimatisch sinnvolle Gebäude können in Zukunft nicht die Ausnahme sein, sondern werden den Planern schlicht abverlangt. Dieses Buch dient durch seine hohe Dichte an Fakten als konkrete Entwurfs- und Planungshilfe: Anhand des Planungsprozesses begleitet es den Planer vom Städtebau über die Fassadenkonzeption bis hin zur Raumkonditionierung und Energieerzeugung. . Die bauspezifischen Charakteristika der verschiedenen Klimazonen bilden dabei die Grundlage für die maßgeschneiderte Entwicklung von ganzheitlichen Gebäudekonzepten. Durchdachte Grafiken veranschaulichen die Planungszusammenhänge und ermöglichen effiziente Planungsentscheidungen sowie eine realistische Vordimensionierung. Es werden Materialien, Systeme und Technologien beschrieben und ihre Einsatzgebiete aufgezeigt. Kennwerte, Kosten und die Darstellung von Wechselbeziehungen erleichtern die gezielte Auswahl.