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Energy performance of residential buildings offers detailed information on energy rating of residential buildings. It covers: theoretical and experimental energy rating techniques; new experimental protocols to evaluate energy performance, detailing a flexible new approach based on actual energy consumption; and energy normalization techniques, describing established methods plus a new Climate Severity Index, which offers significant benefits to the user.

The book also includes audit forms and a CD-Rom for applying the new rating methodology. The software, prepared in Excel, can be widely applied using both deterministic and experimental methods, and can be adapted to national peculiarities and energy policy criteria. Energy performance of residential buildings offers full and clear treatment of the key issues and will be a valuable source of information for energy experts, building engineers, architects, physicists, project managers and local authorities.