Sustainability, Energy and Architecture
eBook - ePub

Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

  1. 552 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

About this book

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.- Explains the best methods and materials to support energy efficient building- Features case studies by experts from a dozen countries, demonstrating how sustainable architecture can be achieved in varied climates and economies- Covers both new constructions and retrofitting of existing structures

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. Authors’ Biography
  7. Chapter 1. Dutch Efforts Towards a Sustainable Built Environment
  8. Chapter 2. Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes – Five Case Studies
  9. Chapter 3. Sustainable Construction Materials
  10. Chapter 4. The Sustainable Corporate Image and Renewables: From Technique to the Sensory Experience
  11. Chapter 5. Residential Deep Energy Retrofits in Cold Climates
  12. Chapter 6. Sustainable Building for a Green and an Efficient Built Environment: New and Existing Case Studies in Dubai
  13. Chapter 7. The LED Lighting Revolution
  14. Chapter 8. Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba
  15. Chapter 9. Daylighting
  16. Chapter 10. Vernacular Tower Architecture of Sana’a: Theory and Method for Deriving Sustainable Design Guidelines
  17. Chapter 11. Sustainable Buildings in Mediterranean Area
  18. Chapter 12. A Low-Energy Building Project in Sweden – the Lindås Pilot Project
  19. Chapter 13. Key Characteristics of Top Performing Sustainable Buildings from the Perspective of the Users
  20. Chapter 14. Sustainable Buildings and their Relationship with Humans and Nature: Lessons from the Past
  21. Chapter 15. Architectural Buildings in Romania
  22. Chapter 16. Sustainable Architecture in Africa
  23. Chapter 17. Mud to Skyscraper – Building Revolution in 50 Years in the Middle East
  24. Index