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.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. Cover 3. Table of Contents - p. Cover 4. Copyright - p. Cover 5. Preface - p. Cover 6. Authors’ Biography - p. Cover 7. Chapter 1. Dutch Efforts Towards a Sustainable Built Environment - p. Cover 8. Chapter 2. Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes – Five Case Studies - p. G24 9. Chapter 3. Sustainable Construction Materials - p. G78 10. Chapter 4. The Sustainable Corporate Image and Renewables: From Technique to the Sensory Experience - p. G92 11. Chapter 5. Residential Deep Energy Retrofits in Cold Climates - p. G110 12. Chapter 6. Sustainable Building for a Green and an Efficient Built Environment: New and Existing Case Studies in Dubai - p. G130 13. Chapter 7. The LED Lighting Revolution - p. G167 14. Chapter 8. Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba - p. G194 15. Chapter 9. Daylighting - p. G226 16. Chapter 10. Vernacular Tower Architecture of Sana’a: Theory and Method for Deriving Sustainable Design Guidelines - p. G254 17. Chapter 11. Sustainable Buildings in Mediterranean Area - p. G276 18. Chapter 12. A Low-Energy Building Project in Sweden – the Lindås Pilot Project - p. G322 19. Chapter 13. Key Characteristics of Top Performing Sustainable Buildings from the Perspective of the Users - p. G354 20. Chapter 14. Sustainable Buildings and their Relationship with Humans and Nature: Lessons from the Past - p. G385 21. Chapter 15. Architectural Buildings in Romania - p. G399 22. Chapter 16. Sustainable Architecture in Africa - p. G418 23. Chapter 17. Mud to Skyscraper – Building Revolution in 50 Years in the Middle East - p. G489 24. Index - p. G512
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.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. Cover 3. Table of Contents - p. Cover 4. Copyright - p. Cover 5. Preface - p. Cover 6. Authors’ Biography - p. Cover 7. Chapter 1. Dutch Efforts Towards a Sustainable Built Environment - p. Cover 8. Chapter 2. Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes – Five Case Studies - p. G24 9. Chapter 3. Sustainable Construction Materials - p. G78 10. Chapter 4. The Sustainable Corporate Image and Renewables: From Technique to the Sensory Experience - p. G92 11. Chapter 5. Residential Deep Energy Retrofits in Cold Climates - p. G110 12. Chapter 6. Sustainable Building for a Green and an Efficient Built Environment: New and Existing Case Studies in Dubai - p. G130 13. Chapter 7. The LED Lighting Revolution - p. G167 14. Chapter 8. Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba - p. G194 15. Chapter 9. Daylighting - p. G226 16. Chapter 10. Vernacular Tower Architecture of Sana’a: Theory and Method for Deriving Sustainable Design Guidelines - p. G254 17. Chapter 11. Sustainable Buildings in Mediterranean Area - p. G276 18. Chapter 12. A Low-Energy Building Project in Sweden – the Lindås Pilot Project - p. G322 19. Chapter 13. Key Characteristics of Top Performing Sustainable Buildings from the Perspective of the Users - p. G354 20. Chapter 14. Sustainable Buildings and their Relationship with Humans and Nature: Lessons from the Past - p. G385 21. Chapter 15. Architectural Buildings in Romania - p. G399 22. Chapter 16. Sustainable Architecture in Africa - p. G418 23. Chapter 17. Mud to Skyscraper – Building Revolution in 50 Years in the Middle East - p. G489 24. Index - p. G512
