Energy Efficient Building Design

Part I. Building with the sun - an everlasting energy source.- Chapter 1. A review of the significance and challenges of Building Integrated Photovoltaics.- Chapter 2. Design Opportunities and Building Integration of PV systems.- Chapter 3. Optimization of Performances and Reliability for Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPV).- Chapter 4. Inorganic, Colored Thin Films for Solar-Thermal Conversion in Sustainable Buildings .- Chapter 5. Capitalizing on Solar Energy in Romania and Improving the Thermal Comfort of Buildings with Solar Air Collectors.- PartII. Building with the nature.- Chapter 6. Parallel (Hi)Stories. A subjective approach to energy efficient design.- Chapter 7. Traditional Semi-Buried House.- Chapter 8. Using Agricultural By-Products for Creating Innovative Products and Materials .- Part III. Case Studies.- Chapter 9. « Les conditions de nature sont retrouvées». The Tower of Shadow in Chandigarh and other Le Corbusier's masterpieces .- Chapter 10. Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Design in Hospital Buildings.- Chapter 11. Football Stadium - An Energy Efficient Building and a Source of Renewable Energy for the Community.- Chapter 12. Passive Design Strategies in Pursuit of Architectural Identity: the New ACT Student Center.- Chapter 13. Towards a Sustainable Refurbishment of the Hellenic Building Stock .- Chapter 14. Design Strategies for Green / Energy Efficient Building Design: An Apartment Building of Gaziantep Project .- Chapter 15. A Sustainable Approach Towards Energy Savings in the Cities of Romania. Bucharest - A Case Study .- Chapter 16. The Heat Island as a Result and Cause of Environmental and Social Degradation. Two Different Settlements in the Town of Afragola of the Metropolitan City of Naples .- Chapter 17. Settlement Scale Analysis Approach to Reach Nearly Zero Energy Communities.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1960, Prof. Dr. Ana-Maria Dabija has been an architect since 1986. She worked in a design institute and a private company before pursuing a university career in the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, in 1991. She has a Doctoral Degree, since 2000 and is a doctoral tutor since 2008. Among the courses she developed are the following "Architectural Detailing Principles", "Contemporary Technological Products and Subassemblies" and "Mistakes in Design - Execution - Use". She wrote the books -"Performant Façade Systems. The opaque component", "Elements for Stair Design" (also translated in English), "Elements for Designing Windows and Doors", "Degradation of the Building Envelope", "Photovoltaic Systems in Architecture", took part in more than 60 conferences (with papers published in the proceedings), coordinated technical regulations and scientific research. Since 2015 she is a member in the Commission for Renewable Energy of the Romanian Academy. Ana-Maria Dabija is a member of numerous national and international professional and scientific bodies as well as in technical committees. Since 2016 she is the Director of the Center of Architectural and Urban Studies (CSAU) of the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest, Romania and since 2017 the Director of the Architecture Doctoral School of the Ion Mincu University