Sustainability, Energy and Architecture
Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings
Gebonden Engels 2013 9780123972699Samenvatting
This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects exploring green building technologies. It covers such pivotal issues as daylighting, LED lighting, integrating renewables such as solar thermal and cooling, retrofitting, LEED and similar certification efforts, passive houses, net-zero and close-zero structures, water recycling, and much more. Highlighting best practices for commercial buildings and private homes, in widely varied climates and within vastly different socio-economic contexts, this illustrated reference will guide architects and engineers in making sustainable choices in building materials and methods.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Sustainable Energy & Architecture
Key Performance Characteristics of Sustainable Buildings
Building Materials and Their Lifecycles
Experiential Sustainability in the Corporate Environment
Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes
Deep Energy Retrofits for Existing Houses
Daylighting
The LED Lighting Revolution
PART II- INT’L CASE STUDIES
Dutch Efforts Toward Sustainable Built Environment
Energy Efficiency Building Measures in Sweden
Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai
Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba
Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture
PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT
ECOArchitects
Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context
Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future
Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai
Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba
Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture
PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT
ECOArchitects
Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context
Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future
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