The Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT)

"The Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT) was set up to as a research unit that aims to promote sustainability through high quality research and publications. Leading the team is Professor Geoff Hammond, head of the Aerothermodynamics group and director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (I-SEE), a multi-disciplinary centre that aims to promote leadership in environmental research and education." to find out more...

pplication of Biomass-energy Technologies

A useful library of books regarding sustainability from World Environmental Library. to find out more...
A topic found for bio-climate design strategies via psychrometric chart analysis. to find out more...

Climate Consultant 5

Download Climate Consultant 5 [For Windows](32 MB)

Download Climate Consultant 5 [For Mac](9 MB)

"This Version uses all the features from prior versions of Climate Consultant including new graphic screens such as a Monthly Diurnal Averages plot. It calculates a set of the top 20 Design Guidelines based on your unique climate and the passive design strategies you selected on the Psychrometric Chart. Each Guideline has a sketch illustrating how it applies when you click on the guideline number. The Guidelines and their accompanying sketches were based in part on Watson and Labs Climatic Building Design, and on Loftness,.et.al, Regional Guidelines for Building Passive Energy Conserving Homes.

NOTE: Vista installation. Change the target directory to C:\CC5 in order to bypass the C:\Program Files security restriction." to find out more...

Passage via http://www.energy-design-tools.aud.ucla.edu/

Super Sustainablecity

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Single Issue Tools - Simple - Sun Charts

"Design tools are required to assess site and building layouts for passive solar design. The resolution of such issues can be achieved from consideration of the angular relationship between the sun, the building and any shading devices and obstructing bodies. Such design tools are often manual methods. In the heating season the aim is to avoid overshadowing so that beneficial solar gain can be harnessed to offset the heating load. Sun charts can be used to assess the degree of shading on the building facades due to terrain features, surrounding buildings, facade projections and local landscape features. Dirrerent approaches exist to analyse the direct solar beam:
1.graphical plots;
2.manual trigonometric methods (rarely used);
3.computer based trigonometric methods, often with graphical output;
4.scale models examined using a sundial device, and natural sunlight or an artificial light source; and
5.scale models using a heliodon, a device that mechanically reproduces the geometric movement of the sun." to find out more...
Passage via http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/Courseware/Design_tools/Sun_chart/sun-chart.htm

The New Zealand Digital Library

"The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections.
Our web site provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. All are available over the Web, and can be accessed through searching and browsing interfaces provided by the Greenstone digital library software. Behind the query interface lies a huge collection providing gigabytes of information. We hope you find what you want, or at least something intriguing!" to find out more...