Energy Conservation Measures in Zero-Energy Building

Abstract

Energy consumption of large public buildings has exceeded 33% of the total world energy consumption. Since it can help us lower the energy consumption of huge buildings to attain a zero-energy building (ZEB), energy conservation of large public buildings has attracted everyone’s attention. The chapter is classified into five sections. The first two sections provide a succinct explanation of zero-energy building and a broad overview of energy conservation. The chapter then goes on to discuss ASHRAE Standard 90.1, which is a set of professional guidelines that the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers regularly publishes to standardizes the demands placed on buildings to guarantee a low energy usage. Section four is all about different types of heat recovery systems that can reduce a building’s energy usage. The last topic deals about what you need to do in your daily lives to use as little energy as possible. Energy-efficient buildings that produce enough renewable energy to meet their own annual energy consumption requirements is known as zero-energy building. Upon using different energy conservation practices discussed under this chapter along with the advancement of technologies, you can save huge amount of energy which will highly cut down your energy demand.