Architecture in a climate of change : a guide to sustainable design /
Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology. Including new material on wind generation, domestic water conse...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Elsevier/Architectural Press,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0080457460 9780080457468 9780750665445 0750665440 9786610642182 6610642184 1136428534 9781136428531 1280642181 9781280642180 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Climate change : nature or human nature?
- Renewable technologies : the marine environment
- Renewable technologies : the wider spectrum
- Low energy techniques for housing
- Insulation
- Domestic energy
- Advanced and ultra-low energy houses
- Harvesting wind and water
- Existing housing : a chanllenge and opportunity
- Low energy techniques for non-domestic buildings
- Ventilation
- Energy options
- Lighting : designing for daylight
- Lighting : and human failings
- Cautionary notes
- Life-cycle assessment and recycling
- State of the art case studies
- Integrated district environmental design
- An American perspective
- Emergent technologies and future propects.