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Sustainability, Energy and Architecture: Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

Sustainability, Energy and Architecture: Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0123972698
ISBN13: 9780123972699
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: Oct 10 2013
Pages: 552
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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