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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Design
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Taylor & Francis The ZEDbook
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Places of the Soul Architecture and environmental
Book SynopsisFor Christopher Day, architecture isnât just about the appearance of buildings but how theyâre experienced as places to be in. Occupantsâ experience can differ radically from designersâ intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings donât also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies wonât be used efficiently. This major revision of his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets, and 25 years hands-on building.Treating buildings as environments intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Dayâs departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike. Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture books of recent timesProfessor Tom Wooley, Architects JournalThe 'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.Centre for Alternative Technology... an inspiration to all those who care about the influence of the environment on Manâs health and well-being.Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical NetworkAt last an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects of buildings on all our lives.Hereâs HealthThis gentle book offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern construction. I was inspired.Colin Amery, The Financial TimesTable of ContentsForeword by HRH Prince Charles Preface 2002: New Millenium: New Issues Preface 2012: Soul in our eco-crisis age 1. Architecture: Does It Matter? 2. How environment affects us 3. Place: placemaking and place-generation 4. Space for Living In: shape, form, space and life 5. Lines: material realities or bearers of energy? 6. Qualities and Quantities 7. The senses: gateways to the world 8. Light: nourishment for body and soul 9. Spirit of place, of project, of buildings 10. Ensouling Buildings 11. Conversation or Conflict? 12. Architecture as Art 13. Architecture With Health-Giving Intent 14. Healing Silence: the Architecture of Peace 15. Soul or survival? 16. Building for Planetary Health 17. Building for Human Health 18. Design as a Listening Process: Co-creating Places 19. Building as a Health-Giving Process 20. Children and Environment 21. Accessibility for All: Compromise for Soul? 22. Urban life, Urban needs 23. Development: continuity-destruction or place-improvement? 24. Urban problems: urban opportunities 25. Eco-cities: achievable or utopian dream? 26. Building for Tomorrow Appendix 1. Lazure: inexpensive technique Appendix 2. Target pricing examples Appendix 3. Hand-finished Plastering List of photographs Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Sun Wind and Light Architectural Design
Book SynopsisThis fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.Table of ContentsWHAT'S IN THE SWL PRINTED I NAVIGATION 20 SWL Printed Contents SWL Electronic Contents Additional Navigation Methods II USING SUN, WIND & LIGHT 50 Buildings and Energy Use Design Decision Chart for Net-Zero III SYNERGIES 78 7 essential themes for net-zero design IV BUNDLES 94 Bundles Explained Selecting Bundles and Making Your Own Some Fundamental Bundles: 9 sets strategy sets for high-performance design V FAVORITE DESIGN TOOLS, condensed 194 VI FAVORITE DESIGN STRATEGIES, condensed 216 VII HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS 250 6 techniques for net-zero energy and carbon-neutral design Appendices A-E 293 Indices 339 WHAT'S IN THE SWL ELECTRONIC VIII DETAILED DESIGN STRATEGIES E.1 106 energy design strategies with precedents and preliminary design tools for passive cooling, solar heating, daylighting, fresh air ventilation and renewable power IX DETAILED ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES E.277 29 analysis techniques for climate assessment, loads estimation and design strategy selection Appendices F-H E.364 Sun Charts and Sundials, covering the world Climate Maps for the USA and Canada ADDITIONAL DIGITAL RESOURCES Climate data for the USA Climate analysis reports for the USA SWL Tools, spreadsheet for net-zero energy analysis Bibliography, searchable
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University of California Press Reimagining Sustainable Cities
Book SynopsisA cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures. What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? In recent years, cities have stepped up efforts to address climate and sustainability crises. But progress has not been fast enough or gone deep enough. If communities are to thrive in the future, we need to quickly imagine and implement an entirely new approach to urban development: one that is centered on equity and rethinks social, political, and economic systems as well as urban designs. With attention to this need for structural change, Reimagining Sustainable Cities advocates for a community-informed model of racially, economically, and socially just cities and regions. The book aims to rethink urban sustainability for a new era. In Reimagining Sustainable Cities, Stephen M. Wheeler and Christina D. Rosan ask big-picture questions of interest to readers worldwide: How do we get to carbon neutrality? How do we adapt to a climate-changed world? How can we create affordable, inclusive, and equitable cities? While many books dwell on the analysis of problems, Reimagining Sustainable Cities prioritizes solutions-oriented thinkingsurveying historical trends, providing examples of constructive action worldwide, and outlining alternative problem-solving strategies. Wheeler and Rosan use a social ecology lens and draw perspectives from multiple disciplines. Positive, readable, and constructive in tone, Reimagining Sustainable Cities identifies actions ranging from urban design to institutional restructuring that can bring about fundamental change and prepare us for the challenges ahead. Trade Review"Half a century on, drastic change is still needed, warn urban ecologists Stephen Wheeler and Christina Rosen in their enlightening survey of today’s cities." * Nature *"This book is an ideal companion to a wide range of readers wishing to think again about sustainable cities and stimulate change across urban areas. The narrative of positivity and optimism laid out in the context of achieving sustainability makes this book a refreshing and welcome addition to a mounting body of literature dedicated to sustainable urban action." * Buildings & Cities *"This book is a compendium of the many changes that will be necessary to make a sustainable and equitable future possible." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"A much needed, holistically integrative, overview of sustainability strategies for designing greener, more just, resilient, adaptable and climate friendly communities." * Urban Studies Online *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. How Do We Get to Climate Neutrality? 2. How Do We Adapt to the Climate Crisis? 3. How Might We Create More Sustainable Economies? 4. How Can We Make Affordable, Inclusive, and Equitable Cities? 5. How Can We Reduce Spatial Inequality? 6. How Can We Get Where We Need to Go More Sustainably? 7. How Do We Manage Land More Sustainably? 8. How Do We Design Greener Cities? 9. How Do We Reduce Our Ecological Footprints? 10. How Can Cities Better Support Human Development? 11. How Might We Have More Functional Democracy? 12. How Can Each of Us Help Lead the Move toward Sustainable Communities? Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Permaculturepowers123 The Permaculture Student 2 The Workbook
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Lulu.com MODELLI DI SPAZIO MINIMO
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Cambridge University Press Justice for Resilient Development in ClimateStressed Cities
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Cambridge University Press Planning Urban Design and Architecture for Climate Action
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RIBA Publishing Better Buildings: Learning from buildings in use
Book SynopsisDespite an increasing demand for energy-efficient design, it is generally accepted that architects rarely return to their creations to ensure that they are performing as intended: to talk to users, observe how the buildings work and have been adapted, and whether the environments created are enjoyable places to be in. While most building professionals recognise the value of follow-through and involvement after handover, there are many perceived barriers to undertaking this work in practice. This book provides a bold vision for how some of these perceived barriers can be overcome. Better Buildings provides architects with the inspiration and tools they need to deliver truly sustainable design. Through essays and illustrated case studies, this essential book explores how sustainable buildings are occupied and work and sheds light on the methods used to observe this. It illustrates that in observing building performance in-use, sustainable architecture has moved beyond simply creating beautiful spaces, to deliver on the low-energy performances promised. Table of ContentsIntroductionEssays:1. Building Performance Evaluation? - Richard Partington2. Learning from the Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluation Programme - Tom Kordel3. Low energy buildings: Delivering theory in practice - Bill Gething4. Designing low energy buildings - Simon Bradbury5. Learning through practice - Mark Lumley6. Sustainable buildings a design challenge - Judit Kimpian7. Energy performance - Bill BordassCase Studies:Introduction to the case studies1. Woodlands Trust2. Greenfields Office3. John Hope Gateway4. Crawley library5. St Lukes School6. Wilkinson School7. WWF Headquarters8. One Brighton9. Derwenthorpe10.Lancaster co-housingConclusion
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Onomatopee Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of
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Harvard University Press The Art of Classic Planning Building Beautiful
Book SynopsisNearly everything we treasure in the world’s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and practices underlying these achievements have been abandoned. Nir Buras documents the humane design methods that held sway before the reign of Modernism and encourages us to relearn the time-tested principles of classic urban planning.Trade ReviewThis is truly the mother of all urban planning books. -- Léon Krier, author of The Architecture of CommunityA much-needed and heroic corrective to the grandiose techno-narcissistic dogma that has turned the American landscape into a wilderness of free parking, anxiety, and ennui. Nir Buras's The Art of Classic Planning presents a new template for a human habitat with a plausible future. -- James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long EmergencyIn the face of the triple threat of rapid urbanization, climate change, and natural resource depletion, we urgently need to relearn the art of building beautiful and enduring communities, as set out in The Art of Classic Planning, to ensure future generations can prosper. -- Ben Bolgar, The Prince’s FoundationA veritable bible of urbanism, Nir Buras’s The Art of Classic Planning is a formidable challenge to modernist principles. -- Hillel Schocken, Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv UniversityThis compendium should be understood not as an attempt to constrain urbanism to the classical, but rather to extend the range of urbanism to include the classical. Why on earth would an urbanist want to be without this trove of knowhow on the table? -- Andrés Duany, FAIA, CNU, recipient of the Driehaus Prize and coauthor of Suburban NationBuras’ highly intelligent and comprehensively illustrated blockbuster of a book is packed with celebrations of what make beautiful, successful, agreeable environments that people can actually enjoy (and which actually work)…[A] great book. -- James Stevens Curl * Times Higher Education *Buras unpacks for the reader the embedded wisdom of the previous 5,000 years of city building that carries many a legacy of beautiful places created to meet the aspirations of their community…Clearly outlines the faulty thinking that led to the defacing and abandonment of our cities…Not merely a ‘must have’ book for the old library, it is a once in a generation treatise that contains within its pages the power to heal the world. -- Patrick Webb * Traditional Building *Buras seems to have been everywhere, and draws on examples from all of these places in demonstrating sound planning from the Maidan in Isfahan in Iran, to Andrassy Avenue in Budapest, to Jai Singh’s plan of Jaipur, to Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. He dedicates significant attention to centuries of planning concepts of every sort of variety…It is a deeply impressive and erudite contextualization of a massive range of material. -- Anthony Paletta * American Conservative *
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LEGARE STREET PR The Orientation Of Buildings And Of Streets In Relation To Sunlight
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Taylor & Francis Planning After Petroleum
Book SynopsisThe past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable cities to address the challenges of moving beyond oil? How might a shift away from petroleum provide opportunities to improve or remake cities for the economic, social and environmental imperatives of twenty-first-century sustainability?Such questions are the focus of contributors to this book with perspectives ranging across the planning challenge: overarching petroleum futures, governance, transition and climate change questions, the role ofTrade Review"When future generations look back on today’s struggle to move off oil as the lifeblood of global society, they will wonder why it took so long for people to see the writing on the wall and find a better way to power the engines of human endeavor. This volume makes an important contribution to that writing on the wall and presents promising tools needed to deal with our energy problems. If contemporary economic and political leaders can learn from the thoughtful approaches in this book, the inevitable post-carbon future that awaits will bring a brighter day for human civilization."Anthony Perl, Professor of Urban Studies & Political Science, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsForewordBrendan GleesonIntroduction1. Investigating Cities After Oil: Planning for Systemic Urban Oil VulnerabilityJago Dodson, Neil Sipe and Anitra NelsonPart I. Energy Horizons2. A Stormy Petroleum Horizon: Cities and Planning Beyond Oil Jago Dodson3. The Paradox of Oil: The Cheaper it is, the More It CostsSamuel Alexander 4. Institutional Planning Responses to a Confluence of Oil Vulnerability and Climate ChangeTony Matthews and Jago Dodson 5. Energy Security and Oil Vulnerability ResponsesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe6. Post-Petroleum Urban JusticeWendy Steele, Lisa de Kleyn and Katelyn SamsonPart II. Transport and Land Use7. Walking the CityJohn Whitelegg8. Cycling Potential in Dispersed CitiesJennifer Bonham and Matthew Burke 9. Children’s Active Transport: An Upside of Oil Vulnerability?Scott Sharpe and Paul Tranter10. Public Transport Networks in the Post-Petroleum EraJohn Stone and Paul Mees11. Oil and Mortgage Vulnerability in Australian CitiesJago Dodson and Neil Sipe12. Outer Suburbs, Car Dependence and Residential Choice in FranceBenjamin Motte-Baumvol and Leslie Belton-Chevallier13. Greenspace After Petroleum: From Freeways to GreenwaysJason ByrneIII. Urban Systems14. Local Energy Plans for Transitions to a Low Carbon FutureBrendan F.D. Barrett and Ralph Horne15. Motor Vehicle Fleets in Oil Vulnerable Suburbs: A Prospect of Technology InnovationsTiebei Li, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson16. Energy for CitiesCheryl Desha and Angela Reeve17. The Role of Telecommunication in Post-Petroleum Planning Tooran Alizadeh18. Peak Oil: Challenges and Changes for the Air Transport IndustryDouglas Baker, Nicholas Stevens and Md. KamruzzamanConclusion19. Planning and Petroleum Futures: Research DirectionsNeil Sipe, Jago Dodson and Anitra NelsonIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Buildings
Book SynopsisThe âfit for purposeâ of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on âsustainable buildingsâ is relatively new. The last two decades in particular have seen an explosion of published material on the design, construction and assessment of buildings purported to be âsustainable.â Many governments and owners of buildings now routinely require their buildings be âsustainableâ and are certified to be so. In the case of sustainability certification, the recent growth in tools, techniques and assessment systems is phenomenal: even as early as 2005 there were over 600 such tools in different parts of the world! New ones sprout all the time and design guides attempt a losing battle to keep pace.This new title in Routledgeâs Major Works series brings together authoritative canonical and cutting edge reference work to establish a framework for easy comprehension of the vast and continually expanding subject matter. It is a four-volume reference work and an indispensable research tool for all interested researchers, students, building owners and policy-makers to gain a thorough understanding of the field. It showcases a variety of approaches to sustainable buildings from around the world and links these to on-site construction practices and assessment. Comprehensive introductions to each volume place the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and global practice context.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Cities in Asia
Book SynopsisWith Asia's cities undergoing unprecedented growth in the 21st century, lauded the urban century' by many, Sustainable Cities in Asia provides a timely examination of the challenges facing cities across the continent including some of the projects, approaches and solutions that are currently being tested.This book uses numerous case studies, analysing topical issues ranging from city cycling in India, to green spaces in China, to the use of community-led energy generation projects in post-Fukushima Japan. Containing contributions from an international team of scholars, it also takes a multi-disciplinary approach and draws on examples from a wide range of countries, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Ultimately, by providing a comprehensive discussion of the broader debates around the shape of sustainable urbanism, it demonstrates that Asia is one of the most active regions in terms of the development of sustainable cTable of ContentsPreface, Simon Joss and Robert Cowley Introduction, Li Yu and Federico Caprotti SECTION I: THE SUSTAINABLE CITY IN ASIA 1. Unlocking urban trajectories: planning for environmentally just transitions in Asia, Caren Levy, Adriana Allen, Vanesa Castán Broto and Linda Westman 2. The story does not remain the same: multi-scalar perspectives on sustainable urban development in Asia and Hong Kong, Federico Cugurullo 3. Does the Asian property market work for sustainable urban developments?, Fatih Eren 4. Migration and urbanization in contemporary Asia: addressing urban inequalities and promoting social sustainability, Megha Amrith 5. Let’s Focus on connections: reading Chinese eco-cities from a relational, multi-scalar perspective, I-Chun Catherine Chang SECTION II: CHALLENGES AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 6. Green as urban spectacle in China, Xuefei Ren 7. Property-led urban growth, institutional change and urban sustainability: the case of China in an international perspective, Yunqing Xu and Xi'an Jiaotong 8. The impacts of high-speed rail on Shanghai’s suburban communities: social sustainability and environmental justice, Shuping Zhang and Zhu Qian 9. The Kathputli Conundrum: slum redevelopment and the institutionalisation of unsustainability, Anubhav Pradhan 10. Sustainable cities in South Asian countries: a politico-cultural perspective, Dillip Kumar Das 11. Buying (into) sustainability: technocratic environmentalism in Abu Dhabi, Surajit Chakravarty 12. Songdo: the hype and decline of world’s first smart city, Seungho Yoo 13. Challenging the eco-city: residents’ perceptions of social sustainability in Tianjin Eco-City, China, Federico Caprotti and Ziyue Gong SECTION III: SHAPING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY IN ASIA 14. Sustainable community development in Taipei, Taiwan, Yung-Jaan Lee 15. Can mega events lead to sustainable urban development? The case of Beijing and Guangzhou, Yawei Chen and Lu Wang 16. A changing cultural narrative of citizenship, urbanism and cycling in Indian cities, Linda Carroli and Mirko Guaralda 17. A difficult birth: creating Seoul, the 21st century sustainable city, Sofia T. Shwayri 18. Changing approaches to community participation for social sustainability: neighbourhood planning in Singapore and Seoul, Im Sik Cho19. Low carbon communities, energy policy and energy democracy in Japan, Thomas Feldhoff 20. Smart City strategies towards sustainable transformation of China’s industrial parks: the experience of Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China, Joon Sik Kim and Xiangyi Wang 21. ‘Sustainable’ urban habitats in Shanghai, Tyler Rooker 22. The transnational search of Chinese eco-city projects: historical legacies, authoritarian political operations, and socio-economic dynamics, Shiuh-Shen Chien 23. Urban transformation and city branding in the Greater Pearl River Delta, Martin de Jong, Yawei Chen, Miaoxi Zhao and Haiyan Lu
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planning Sustainable Cities
Book SynopsisPlanning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems. The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting detail, each infrastructure system is decoded in four system levels. The levels organize the processes, highlight connections between entities and decode the high-level planning and decision making process affecting infrastructure. For each system level strategic objectives of planning are determined. The objectives correspond to the five focus areas of the Zofnass program: Quality of life, Natural World, Climate and Risk, Resource Allocation, Leadership. Developed through the Zofnass Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this approach integrates the key inTable of ContentsPart 1. Sustainability, Infrastructure and Cities 1. The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure 2. Planning Infrastructure Part 2. Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Guidelines 3. General Framework 4. Landscape as Infrastructure 5. Transportation Infrastructure 6. Water Infrastructure 7. Energy Infrastructure 8. Solid Waste Infrastructure 9. Information as Infrastructure 10. Food as Infrastructure Part 3. Examples of Planning with the Guidelines11. New City in Asia 12. City Expansion in Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reimagining Industrial Sites
Book SynopsisThe discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities of these derelict sites are reimagined in the transformed landscape and considers how such approaches can reveal the dramatic changes that have been wrought on these places over a relatively short time scale. It discusses these issues with reference to eleven sites from the UK, Germany, the USA, Australia and China, focusing specifically on how designers incorporate evidence of landscape change, both cultural and natural. There has been little research into how these developed landscapes are perceived by visitors and local residents. This book examines how the tangible material traces of pastness are interpreted by the visitor and the impact of the intangible elTrade Review"The complex legacy of post-industrial and military landscapes presents ecological challenges across the world today, requiring close scrutiny and imaginative responses. Catherine Heatherington’s fine-grained exploration of the successful recuperation of the former gun-ranges at Rainham Marshes near London, along with other case studies, provides essential insights into how best to approach this new landscape condition. The book provides an invaluable resource for those who now manage such derelict and neglected sites and, ultimately, for the wider public - for whom they are the new landscapes of leisure and environmental renewal." Ken Worpole, Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsPreamble1. Introduction 2. The qualities of derelict, underused and neglected sites 3. Eleven landscapes and their qualities 4. Designing to reveal change ‘Musing on the tracks – the first interlude 5. Perceptions of material and spatial qualities in developed sites ‘Temporalities at Orford Ness’ – the second interlude 6. Perceptions of temporal qualities in developed sites ‘My memories at Bentwaters’ - the third interlude 7. Perceptions of the qualities and their impact on memories 8. Implications for practice 9. Managing change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Whole Life Costing for Sustainable Building
Book SynopsisWhole life costing is now integral to building procurement, both for new buildings and major refurbishments. It is key when assessing investment scenarios for estates as well as individual buildings, and has become a tool for justifying higher capital cost items.Standard whole life costing methods combine capital cost, facilities costs, operational costs, income and disposal costs with a single actionsingle benefit approach. Costing based on this type of single attribute assessment misses out on realising value from the intricacies of the interactions buildings have with their occupants, users and the location in which they are placed. In contrast, the multi-attribute approach presented by the author of this book explains how to analyse the whole cost of a building, while also taking into account secondary and tertiary values of a variety of actions that are deemed important for the project owners and decision-making stakeholders. The process is an effective tool for presentiTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Whole life valuation: why it is important; 2 Project decision making: the standard processes; 3 Efficient design: options under consideration; 4 Efficient design: consequential savings and costs; 5 Whole life value: the incorporated approach; Index
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Taylor & Francis Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design
Book SynopsisReintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in the design process and education.To create designs that are sustainable and respond to current environmental, economic and cultural concerns, practitioners and educators require a clear framework for materials use in design and product manufacturing. While much has been written about sustainable design over the last two decades, outlining systems of sustainability and product criteria, to design for material circularity requires a detailed understanding of the physical matter that constitutes products. Designers must not just know of materials but know how to manipulate them and work with them creatively. This book responds to the gap by offering a way to acquire the material knowledge necessary to design physical objects for sustainability. It reinforces the key role and responsibility of designers and encourages deTrade Review"Mette's book unveils the systemic challenges of the world of design, a discipline directly entangled with the current ecologic crisis and social disenfranchisement. Our current material ecology puts is threatening ecology that makes life possible on this planet, and the deep reflection from a designer like Mette gives hope to the discipline and the practice. The call for a deep revision of design education is an imperative, a needed update for the introduction of sustainable values, as well as new digital tools for design to achieve the purpose to nurture all life on this planet, not only human, and that means changing the material ecology." – Tomas Diez Ladera, Director of Fab Lab Barcelona, and the Master in Design for Emergent Futures at IAAC"Design movements evolve over time. The last 150 years have seen the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Pop, Modernism, Postmodernism and more. Each has influenced product design and architecture. And each has had it chosen set of materials – woods, leathers, metals, ceramic, glass, concrete, plastics – that have shaped the sense and feel of the object created with them.The digital age has provided unprecedented access to information and to modelling tools. Much engineering and design teaching now centres around them. This greatly-widened horizon stimulates innovation, but its sheer scale has tended to cloud the close relationship that designers, in the past, had with their materials, replacing intimacy with a few by a passing acquaintance with many. This book is a wake-up call, an appeal to educators to bring closeness to materials back into a central role in the design process and education. It is timely: the current concern for the well-being of present and future generations requires that materials be chosen in ways that are better informed about the environmental consequences of their use than at present. And at a human level, the materials of the products that surround us, if well chosen, bring an aesthetic satisfaction that is life-enhancing." – Mike Ashby, Emeritus Professor of Materials, University of Cambridge, UK"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how materiality can be brought back into the center of design education" - Mark Miodownik, Director of Institute of Making, University College London, UKThis book unveils the systemic challenges in the world of design, a discipline directly entangled with the current ecological crisis and social disenfranchisement. Our current material ecology is threatening the equilibrium that makes life possible on this planet, and the deep reflection in this book gives hope to the discipline and the practice. Design education requires a much-needed update on sustainable values, in addition to new digital tools for design, to achieve the purpose to nurture all life on this planet, not only human, and this means changing our material ecology." – Tomas Diez Ladera, Director of Fab Lab Barcelona, and the Master in Design for Emergent Futures at IAAC"Design movements evolve over time. The last 150 years have seen the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Pop, Modernism, Postmodernism and more. Each has influenced product design and architecture. And each has had it chosen set of materials – woods, leathers, metals, ceramic, glass, concrete, plastics – that have shaped the sense and feel of the object created with them.The digital age has provided unprecedented access to information and to modelling tools. Much engineering and design teaching now centres around them. This greatly-widened horizon stimulates innovation, but its sheer scale has tended to cloud the close relationship that designers, in the past, had with their materials, replacing intimacy with a few by a passing acquaintance with many. This book is a wake-up call, an appeal to educators to bring closeness to materials back into a central role in the design process and education. It is timely: the current concern for the well-being of present and future generations requires that materials be chosen in ways that are better informed about the environmental consequences of their use than at present. And at a human level, the materials of the products that surround us, if well chosen, bring an aesthetic satisfaction that is life-enhancing." – Mike Ashby, Emeritus Professor of Materials, University of Cambridge, UK"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how materiality can be brought back into the center of design education" - Mark Miodownik, Director of Institute of Making, University College London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sustainability and making 2. Materials in design education 3. The material dialogue in craft 4. Reintroducing materials into a contemporary design process 5. Implications for design education 6. Sustainable design: knowing how Index
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CRC Press Lean Construction 4.0
Book SynopsisThis book introduces and develops the novel concept of Lean Construction 4.0. The capability of Lean Construction to effectively adapt the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry to this new era of digital transformation requires a reconceptualization of the triad people-processes-technology as a foundation for the theoretical and practical framework of Lean Construction. Therefore, a shift towards Lean Construction 4.0 is required.Lean Construction 4.0 is a new systems-wide thinking approach where synergies and overlaps between Lean Construction and digital/smart technologies go far beyond BIM to reshape the way we design, manage, and operate capital projects in the modern age of automation. This pioneering new book brings together the views of world experts at the interface of Lean Construction and digital/smart technologies, in order to channel research efforts, to introduce and discuss current research and practice, challenges and drivers, and future perspect
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Climate An Environmental History
Book SynopsisThis book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental influence on the nature of buildings of all kinds and periods, in both country and city. Based on extensive documentary research and on first-hand analyses of significant buildings, this book combines architectural history with the parallel fields of climate history and the representation of environment in literature and the fine arts. It spans the period in British architectural history from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century â from the buildings of the greatest architect of the Elizabethan age, Robert Smythson, to the twentieth century work of Alison and Peter Smithson.Copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs, including a colour plate section, this book brings a historical dimension to the appreciation of the environment in architecture and, equally, introduces an environmental dimension to the study of the history of architecture. Trade Review"...impeccably well researched with extensive references...this book should be on the shelves of many practising and student architects, not just those preoccupied with issues of climate (change)" – RIBA Journal"The book will certainly appeal to those practitioners and academics who find the use of labels such as ‘green’ or ‘climate responsive’ architecture deeply problematic and even a deterrant to the timely integration of environmental performance requirements into mainstream practice. It should also be a necessary read for those who do not have such reservations and give primacy to the climatic and technical determinismof building form." - Raymond J. Cole, Building Research & Information, August 2012"Architecture and Climate breaks new ground by presenting an historical overview of these issues over the past 400 years." - The Journal of the Institute of Historic Building ConservationTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Climate Described 2. Robert Smythson and the Environment of the Elizabethan Country House 3. Christopher Wren and the Origins of Building Science 4. Palladianism and the Climate of England 5. Building in the Climate of the Nineteenth Century City 6. The Arts and Crafts House Climatically Considered 7. The Modern Movement House in the British Climate 8. The Environmental Architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson
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Taylor & Francis Design and Construction of HighPerformance Homes
Book SynopsisBoth professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: architectural innovations in building skin technologies which make lighter more transparent buildings high performing energy-free architectural design principles and advances in building-integrated photovoltaics essential engineering principles, controls and approaches to simulation for achieving net zero the advantages of integrated design in residential construction and the challenges and opportunities it engenders detailed case studies of innovative homes which have incorporated low-energy design solutions, new materials, alternative building assemblies, digital fabrication, integrated engineering systems and operational controls. <Trade Review"To prevent the worst of climate change, high-performance buildings are now a necessity, and this book is a great resource to make such buildings a reality. It clearly recognizes that high performance is not just a technical challenge, but also requires an understanding of people's behaviors and the complexity of social arrangements."Norbert Lechner, Auburn University, USA"From design and analysis, to project construction and delivery, to new materials and techniques, the book carefully collects top authors, content, and case studies to help explicate what the editor describes as "energy-free architectural design". As well illustrated as it is written, this book convincingly merges the range of historical, technical, theoretical, and architectural obligations that presuppose our understanding of higher-performance buildings." Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA"This book insightfully spans some difficult gaps that have hindered our ecological aspirations in residential design: between the warm sense of home and the cold hard benchmarks of performance; from aesthetic to ethical considerations, between the hardware and the integrated systems; between available technology and material construction; and between simulation models and real-world cases"Leonard Bachman, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, USA"To prevent the worst of climate change, high-performance buildings are now a necessity, and this book is a great resource to make such buildings a reality. It clearly recognizes that high performance is not just a technical challenge, but also requires an understanding of people's behaviors and the complexity of social arrangements."Norbert Lechner, Auburn University, USA"From design and analysis, to project construction and delivery, to new materials and techniques, the book carefully collects top authors, content, and case studies to help explicate what the editor describes as "energy-free architectural design". As well illustrated as it is written, this book convincingly merges the range of historical, technical, theoretical, and architectural obligations that presuppose our understanding of higher-performance buildings." Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA"This book insightfully spans some difficult gaps that have hindered our ecological aspirations in residential design: between the warm sense of home and the cold hard benchmarks of performance; from aesthetic to ethical considerations, between the hardware and the integrated systems; between available technology and material construction; and between simulation models and real-world cases"Leonard Bachman, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Household Power: How Much is Enough? Part 1: Building Envelopes, New Materials and Architectural Design 1.1. Energy Free’ Architectural Design – The Case of PassivHaus and Double Skin Facades 1.2. Translucent Building Skins – Advancing the Technology of Light Transmission 1.3. Responsive Building Envelopes: Characteristics and Evolving Paradigms 1.4. Nano-Materials + Bio Insulators + Phase Change Materials Part 2: Renewable Energies, Building Systems and Simulations 2.1. The Design Integration of Renewable Energies 2.2. Systems Integrated Photovoltaics, SIPV 2.3. Building Systems, Controls and Automation 2.4. Building Performance and Computational Simulation Part 3: Integrated Practice and Residential Construction 3.1. Integrated Project Delivery – Contracting for High Performance 3.2. Energy and the Integrative Design Process, Defining the Team of Experts 3.3. The Construction of Low Energy Prefabricated Housing in Denmark 3.4. From Modeling to Making, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Part 4: High Performance Homes: Case Studies 4.1. LumenHaus and the Eclipsis Sun Control System 4.2. Project Icarus: Optimizing Light and Energy in the Design of a Translucent Roof 4.3. North House: Climate Responsive Envelope and Control System 4.4. Modular Building; Three Scales/Three Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Mapping Urban Spaces
Book SynopsisMapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable â accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness â can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONThe ArcheA MethodLamberto AmistadiPART 1: MAPPING SPACES. The Phenomenological Approach to the City of Spaces.1. A Spatial Understanding of Architecture and the City.2. Landmarks in a History of Spatial Mapping.3. The Many-faceted Notion of Space: On the Hypothesis of Mapping and the Observation of Spatial Phenomena. 4. Stadtraumgestaltungen: On Perceiving and Reading Urban Spaces.5. Where the Compact and Open City Meets: Inner and Outer Spaces on the Periphery of Aachen North.6. Here and There: On the Ambivalence of Transitional Spaces.PART 2: MAPPING PLACES. The Italian Tradition of Urban Studies.7. Drawing the City. Form and Meaning.8. Urban Events and the Soul of the City. The Poetic Political Tripartition of Urban Form. 9. Civic Urbanity. The Places of Everyday Life.10. Venice as a Paradigm: Urban Studies and the Value of Emptiness in the City’s Design.11. Nature Prepares the Sites, But It Is Man Who Creates the Organism: Bologna Through Its Geography, Its History and Its Planning Tools. 12. New Urban Landscapes. Fragments of Civil Architecture.PART 3: MAPPING NATURAL SPACE. The Significance of Landscapes for the Urban Project13. The Role of Green Spaces in Urban Design Theories in France.14. Green Space as an Element for a New Urban Dynamic.15. Uses of Mapping: Methods of Investigation and Ways of Narrating Territory in Architectural Practice and Teaching.16. Towards a More ‘Natural’ City?PART 4: MAPPING CENTRALITIES. Urban Regeneration towards a Polycentric City.17. The Long-Term Method of the Urban Project in Italy and the Parma School.18. Designing the European Medium-Sized City. Urban Regeneration Technique Through the Structured Densification of the Centrality System. 19. The Project of a Metropolitan Urban Centrality. The Case of the Former Fruit and Vegetable Market of Bologna.20. Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration. The Case of Driescher Hof In Aachen.21. The European Medium-Sized City: The Characteristics of the Urban Form.22. The Idea of Space and Urban Sequences. The Case of Parma.PART 5: MAPPING SOCIAL SPACE. Demographic Analysis as an Image of Urban Complexity.23. Mapping Urban Spaces with the Use of Physical, Digital and Augmented Reality Models: Experiences from Applications in Architectural and Urban Education.24. The Urban Circle of Life’ of People with Disabilities: Mapping Urban Inconveniences.25. Multigenerational Spaces in Conceptual Urban Projects in Polish Cities.AFTERWORDProblems of the Contemporary CityRaffaella Neri
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Taylor & Francis A Beginners Guide to Urban Design and Development
Book SynopsisThis book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language. The author explains the design process in a straightforward way, exploring the different roles and highlighting the opportunities and limitations different agencies have to influence design over the various stages of the process. Examples from the UK and worldwide look at how the system operates and how best practice can make a real difference on the ground. Case studies examine situations where quality or sustainability fell short â and how this could have been avoided. This book also showcases a variety of evaluation tools, explaining how they operate, and giving guidance on how to create project-specific tools to drive schemes forward. With community empowerment Trade Review"Laura Alvarez brings her great experience and wisdom to bear in this very personal exploration of how to build high quality, sustainable places. A fascinating and very engaging read for students and practitioners alike." Prof Matthew Carmona, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, UK"As a non-planning person with community level involvement in the built environment and a personal interest in sustainable development, the content of The ABC of quality, sustainable design will be invaluable to me. It has vastly increased my understanding of the development process and the need for cross-sector collaboration and multi-disciplinary teams. This book provides me with tools that I can apply in a very practical way, giving me a greater sense of confidence to challenge poor decisions and practice by developers, architects, planners and local authorities. Each chapter deals with a specific topic that is expanded through debate and case studies with the final chapter drawing up conclusions set out in a comprehensive framework that sets out the ethos for good practice.I believe this book should be on reading lists for students and professionals in urban practice, planning, construction and architecture because it sets out the case for accountability across sustainability, economy and society. Bad development, whether in terms of poor design or poor environmental performance has long term, irreversible consequences. Dr Alvarez manages to bring together complex questions critical to the future of urban design, a clearly set out pathway forward and to use language that is accessible and enjoyable. The voice and the experience of the author is present, which gives an insight into the decades of thinking that has gone into this book - making it more personally accessible to the reader. A very educational, enjoyable and rewarding read."Penney Poyzer, Chair Nottingham Good Food Partnership, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Understanding Good, Sustainable Design; 2. The Design Process; 3. Design Agents; 4. Influencing Design; 5. Design Form; 6. Evaluating Design; Conclusions: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort
Book SynopsisThis book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose. The way in which comfort is produced and perceived has a profound effect on the energy use of a building and its resilience to the increasing dangers posed by extreme weather events, and power outages caused by climate change. Research on thermal comfort is particularly important not only for the health and well-being of occupants but because energy used for temperature control is responsible for a large part of the total energy budget of the built environment. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the vulnerabilities of the thermal comfort system; how and why are buildings failing to p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd NetZero and Positive Energy Communities
Book SynopsisThis book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project. It describes the steps, tools, and methods developed during the project, providing practical information for the energy and construction sector that will be of interest to students, engineers, architects, developers, and professionals working around high performance architecture and sustainable communities.Through the ZERO-PLUS project, a consortium of 32 partners from eight countries, including academic institutions, technology providers, architects, and construction companies, designed four communities covering completely different geo-climatic regions, construction practices, and cultural backgrounds in Cyprus, Italy, France, and the UK. The communities were designed, optimized, constructed, monitored, handed over to tenants, post-occuTable of ContentsForeword, 1. Introduction to net-zero and positive-energy communities, 2. Background: the current energy community implementation state in the EU, 3. Methodology: the ZERO-PLUS approach, 4. Part 1: UK case study, Part 2: Energy modeling of positive-energy dwellings, 5. Part 1: Italian case study, Part 2: Community-level strategies for microclimate mitigation and energy efficiency improvement, 6. Part 1: Cypriot case study, Part 2: Production and installation planning, 7. Part 1: French case study, Part 2: Project and design management – best practices and tools, 8. Part 1: Concentrating solar energy – the FAE system, Part 2: Bot-based building design, Part 3: Solar air-conditioning – the Freescoo system, 9. Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of positive-energy communities, 10. Post-occupancy evaluation: the missing link, Conclusions, or a more critical rethinking of the project, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move from a linear economy to a sustainable and circular economy.With contributions from leading experts from around the globe, this volume presents theoretical insights, contextualised case studies, and participatory methodologies, which identify different catalysts, including technology, innovation, business models, management and organisation, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate sustainability transitions. As a unique value to the reader, the book brings together public policy and private business perspectives to addreTrade Review“For the last 50 years, we have come to realise that there are not only natural resource limits to our economic growth but that our extraction methods are – indisputably – responsible for global warming, ever-increasing levels of pollution, and dire health effects. However, despite all this data, we have been reluctant to act. In the last few years, circular economy initiatives and regulations have emerged as viable remedies to these calamities, but a deeper look often reveals a lack of a true systemic circular transition. This book is closing an urgent gap because it helps us understand the actual catalyzers of circularity and in so doing, once activated, long-term, sustainable change can finally take place.”Gordana Kierans, EntrepreneurCircle.World, Croatia“An impressive array of experts masterfully help us to understand and expand the role of catalysts to help transition from linear to circular business models across industries, regions, and approaches. This handbook is both guidebook and playbook, and provides both sides of the telescope – informative zoom-ins, as well as insightful zoom-outs to help us take the necessary next steps to begin the transition in earnest.”Alon Rozen, Dean and Professor of Innovation, École des Ponts Business School, FranceTable of Contents1. Introduction: Circular economy catalysts in sustainability transition Part 1: Contextualized understanding of catalysts 2. Catalysts for urban circularity 3. ‘ReCreating’ the construction sector for circularity 4. Catalysing the textile industry toward circular economy 5. A review of circular economy in Nigeria 6. Catalysts for transition to circular economy solutions in the bio-waste management sector in India 7. Plastic waste and a circular economy in China 8. The role of institutional environment in catalysing circular entrepreneurship Part 2: Types of catalysts 9. Regulatory catalysts for circular economy 10. Mission-oriented policy as a catalyst for transition to a circular economy 11. Information as a catalyst for the circular economy 12. Design as a catalyst for the circular economy 13. Circular economy and finance 14. Core competences and core resources as catalysts for the design of circular business models 15. Artificial intelligence as a catalyst in the circular economy transition 16. Gamification as a catalyst to the circular economy Part 3: Methodological approaches for catalysing 17. Mid-range transition arenas as catalysts in a circular economy 18. Design thinking tools to catalyse sustainable circular innovation 19. Scenario method for catalysing circularity and lowering emissions in the construction sector/real estate, Nigeria 20. Digital affordances for a circular economy transition 21. Accelerating the adoption of circular economy 22. Co-creation art to catalyse competencies for a sustainability transition 23. Utopias as catalysts for a sustainable circular economy Part 4: Conceptual understanding of catalysing 24. Toward a typology of circular economy agency 25. Roles of virtual intermediaries in the transition to a circular economy 26. The assembling of circular consumption 27. Catalysing a circular transition in Brixton 28 ‘Regime-niche’ actors as catalysts in the transition to a circular economy 29. Catalysts in a sustainable circular economy
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Taylor & Francis African Industrial Design Practice
Book SynopsisThe underlying principle of this book is the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which acts as a guide for developing empathic products and services. The book makes the case that empathy is the key to any successful product and service design project because it enables designers to make wise design choices that align with users'' demands.Fifteen chapters provide the latest industrial design developments, techniques, and processes explicitly targeting emerging economies. At the outset, it covers the design context and the philosophy of the Ubuntu approach, which places people and communities at the centre of the development agenda. The book covers new product development, design research, design cognition, digital and traditional prototyping, bringing products to the market, establishing a company''s brand name, intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge, and the business case for design in Afrika. It concludes with a discussion about the future of design and the skills aspTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: New Product Development 1. Design Context in Afrika 2. Advancing Afrikan Sustainable Design 3. New Product Development Process: A Contextual Approach 4. Human Factors and Ubuntu in Product Design PART 2: Design Research 5. Design-Driven Research Methods 6. Ethics in Design PART 3: Design Cognition 7. Design Elements and Principles 8. Design Sketching: What Works Best from an Afrikan Perspective? PART 4: Prototyping Approaches 9. Physical Model Making for Designers 10. Traditional Manufacturing 11. Additive Manufacturing in Afrika PART 5: Taking the Product to the Market 12. Building Corporate Brand Reputation in Emerging Economies 13. Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions, and the Philosophy of Ubuntu 14. The Business Case for Design in Afrika 15. Designing Futures for Afrika and Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to the
Book SynopsisThis book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry. Using the UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the shared ''Wicked Problems'' faced by an industry that urgently needs to boost its productivity levels, build more sustainably and affordably, and generally improve its working practices.In an accessible and easy to read style, Siebert challenges the overall decision making and problem-solving approach adopted by the industry and seeks to put Systems Thinking front and centre to consider the core issues from multiple perspectives. Initially outlining the key stakeholders and the drivers and barriers to change, he then introduces Systems Thinking and explains using numerous examples of known issues what this approach could achieve. His central aim is tTable of ContentsPart I - What are we trying to do; What’s stopping us?; How could we approach it differentlyChapter 1 – Defining the SectorsChapter 2 – Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to doChapter 3 – Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understandChapter 4 – The Methodology for Change Part II - What ‘approaching it differently’ could achieveChapter 5 – Political Intervention: pushing the right buttons at the right timeChapter 6 – Industry Intervention: changing the message to fit the audienceChapter 7 – The Missing Tools: the tools we need, how to build them, and how to promote themChapter 8 – Applying these tools to solve the Housing Industry’s crisis
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Taylor & Francis DesignTech Building Science for Architects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chudley and Greenos Building Construction
Book SynopsisThe 13th edition of Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook remains THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals. The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive coverage of building construction practice, techniques and regulations representing both traditional procedures and modern developments are included to provide the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to building construction.This new edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the Building Regulations, as well as including new material on modern methods of construction, greater emphasis on sustainability, health and safety, and coverage of heat pumps, photovoltaics, underfloor heating and rainwater harvesting.Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook is the essential, easy-to-use resource for undergraduate and vocational students on a wide ran
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chudley and Greenos Building Construction
Book SynopsisThe 13th edition of Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook remains THE authoritative reference for all construction students and professionals. The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive coverage of building construction practice, techniques and regulations representing both traditional procedures and modern developments are included to provide the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to building construction.This new edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the Building Regulations, as well as including new material on modern methods of construction, greater emphasis on sustainability, health and safety, and coverage of heat pumps, photovoltaics, underfloor heating and rainwater harvesting.Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook is the essential, easy-to-use resource for undergraduate and vocational students on a wide ran
£135.00
CRC Press Building Decisions
Book SynopsisDecision-making is critical in many industries. Leaders make decisions daily, often hyperfocusing on cost at the expense of value for society and the environment. Unfortunately, project teams are poorly equipped to make decisions, and many prefer to avoid conflicts instead of having healthy discussions based on different perspectives. The good news is that we can learn ways of making decisions that drive better outcomes. Decisions are especially relevant in the construction industry, given the scale and long-term impact its projects create worldwide.This book presents a practical framework and guidelines for group decision-making where multiple stakeholders have to come to a resolution. The authors introduce the reader to the Choosing by Advantages (CBA) decision-making system, explaining its principles and methods. The authors provide relatable examples, such as choosing a phone and renovating a kitchen. The book also includes case studies of large construction projects from
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CRC Press Embedding Resilience in the Built Environment
Book SynopsisEU Taxonomy is the common name for an EU regulation that supports companies in sustainable environmental and climate action (Regulation (EU) No. 2020/852). It is a classification tool designed for investors, companies and financial institutions to define the environmental impact of business activities and the requirements that organizations must meet to be considered as sustainable.The aim of this book is to examine the EU taxonomy from the built environment perspective and the ways in which it can be used to build resilience in real estate. It presents the issues, hot points and possible choices from the designers, construction consultants and investing bodies points of view, those who must set forth initial conditions, which should later become the keystones for greener developments. It brings together the expertise of a unique team of both researchers and professionals, and presents a methodology, case studies, and solutions which together comprise a novel understanding of
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CRC Press Green Engineering Materials
Book SynopsisThe use of green engineering materials represents a promising approach in sustainable development. This book explores various renewable materials and their properties, applications, and technological advancements driving their use in modern engineering and construction.This guide highlights the significance of green engineering materials in sustainable development and explains their effective use in engineering and construction. It covers bamboo as a rapidly renewable material with significant engineering potential, detailing its unique characteristics, preservation methods, and uses in construction. The book also investigates sustainable plant-based composites, focusing on biopolymer and biomass matrices, cellulose-based materials, lignin, polylactic acid, and natural rubber. It highlights the benefits of plant fibers like rice husk ash and jute while addressing the challenges in adopting these composites in engineering. Green concrete technologies like hybrid geopolymers an
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Cambridge University Press Urban Nature
Book SynopsisThis introductory textbook with a global scope provides training for students of geography, sustainability, and urban and environmental studies in transforming cities to meet climate, biodiversity, and sustainability challenges. The authors tell an inspiring story of how nature can help us re-imagine our cities and their futures.
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Taylor & Francis Farmscape
Book SynopsisFarmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural processes, technologies, and cycles have long shaped landscape architectural projects, from the ornamented farm of the eighteenth century, to contemporary projects that integrate agriculture and ecological restoration. The book describes the history of agriculture within landscape architecture and reveals the diversity of current design practices that use the rhythms and forms of agriculture to create productive farms that are also sites of beauty, community, ecological conservation, remediation, and pleasure. Highly illustrated in full colour, this book provides essential context, resources, and best practice examples of rural and periurban designed sites for professionals and studTable of ContentsCultivating the field; Case studies; Woburn Farm; Middleton Place; Montpelier; Moraine Farm; Merchiston Farm; Welwyn Garden City; Ziebigk Siedlung; Nærum Allotment Gardens; Village Homes; Winslow Farms Conservancy; Shenyang Architectural University; Green Gulch Farm Zen Center; Babylonstoren; Overlook Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm; Composition, meaning, and practice: a framework for designing agriculture; Operationalizing the farmscape; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Frankenstein Urbanism
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city, second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial intelligences that are taking the management of the city out of the hands of humans.The book empirically explores Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong to provide a critical analysis of eco and smart city experiments and their sustainability, and it draws on numerous real-life examples to illustrate the rise of urban artificial intelligences across different geographical spaces and scales. Theoretically, the book traverses philosophy, urban studies and planning theory to explain the passage from eco and smart cities to the autonomous city, and to reflect on the meaning and purpose of cities in a time when human and non-biological intelligences are irreversibly colliding in the built environment.Iconoclastic and prophetic, Frankenstein Urbanism is both an examination of the evolution of urban experimentation through the lens of Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein, and a warning about an urbanism whose product resembles Frankensteinâs monster: a fragmented entity which escapes human control and human understanding. Academics, students and practitioners will find in this book the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend and engage with the many urban experiments that are now alive, ready to leave the laboratory and enter our cities.Trade Review'Federico Cugurullo draws inspiration and an analytical framing from Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to examine what he terms Frankenstein urbanism: experimental urban development designed to create sustainability that emerges with monstrous effects. His analysis is a powerful critique of the discursive and material creation of eco-cities, smart cities, and the coming autonomous city.'Rob Kitchin, Professor of Human Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland'In Frankenstein Urbanism, Cugurullo masterfully combines science fiction literature with an analysis of real-life cities, to show that fiction and reality are indistinguishable in our quest for autonomous urban futures. This is a theoretically bold and empirically rich book that illustrates how the current obsession about sentient cities is built upon the grand utopian gestures of smart and eco-city experiments turning into Frankenstein monsters. This book will be essential reading material for all those interested in the theory of urban futures as well as in the practical future of smart urbanism.'Ayona Datta, Professor in Human Geography, University College London, UK'Does the new smart urbanity create a sort of Frankenstein monster, built with good intentions but turning against its masters? This book demonstrates that the only way out of the nightmare of Frankenstein urbanism is to begin loving our monsters. Leaving the city in the hands of technocrats only leads to a monstrous urbanism. That is why a public and politically engaging urbanity is urgently required. And this is precisely what the lessons of this book implore us to do.'Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, The University of Manchester, UK'In this outstanding volume, Federico Cugurullo examines how humanity’s search for ideal cities- with their corresponding ideal societies- at times produces monsters. Frankenstein is an apt metaphor because, like the monster, the experimental forms of urbanism that Cugurullo discusses are terrifying but also very much alive. Well-documented case-studies in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong explore the ambiguities and elitism of smart cities, perhaps the most salient manifestation of experimental urbanism. Cugurullo masterfully explains the futility and dangers of technological innovation without an overarching vision of urban futures. However, he argues that, rather than rejecting technology, we should approach it cautiously within a collective inquiry into the type of city that we want.Vanesa Castán Broto, Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK'By mobilising a narrative of monstrosity, Frankenstein Urbanism builds a stunningly effective critique of the contemporary literatures, practices and consequences of the smart city. A compelling and vivid contemplation of some of the most pressing concerns about technology, its related ideologies, and the current condition of our cities.'Alberto Vanolo, Professor of Political and Economic Geography, Università di Torino, Italy'Frankenstein Urbanism is a profound critique of smart and eco-cities and of the recent city of artificial intelligence. Federico Cugurullo remarkably discovers that the rationale for making these cities is analogically similar to the experiment that creates Frankenstein’s monster. Focusing on Masdar City and Hong Kong, the book provocatively rethinks what urbanism is in the technologically oriented initiatives transforming our cities.' Fulong Wu, Bartlett Chair of Planning, University College London, UK'Viewing city development through the lens of Shelley’s early science fiction makes for good storytelling as well as thoughtful analysis of the case studies of Masdar City and Hong Kong. Like many portrayals of future cities, this is a dystopian tale and a fascinating journey for planning practitioners or academics interested in the past, present, or future structure of cities. Cugurullo’s Frankenstein holds open the chances for us to better understand our assumptions, improve upon the science, or choose not to experiment at all.'Thomas W. Sanchez, Journal of the American Planning Association'Frankenstein Urbanism represents an ambitious blend of theory and fieldwork. The book traces the far-reaching ancestries of contemporary imaginaries and charts an important and measured path forward for both theorists and practitioners of the urban. Throughout, references to Shelley’s Frankenstein serve as more than a simple metaphor, clarifying the stakes of urban experiments in a visceral and insightful way.'Nathan Olmstead, Urban Studies Journal Table of Contents1. Prologue: of cities and monsters Part 1: The Literature 2. Theories of ecological urbanism 3. Theories of smart urbanism Part 2: The Experiment 4. An eco-city experiment: the case of Masdar City 5. A smart-city experiment: the case of Hong Kong Part 3: The Apocalypse 6. Urban equations come alive 7. Artificial Intelligence and the rise of the autonomous city 8. Epilogue: the eclipse of urban reason
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing with Society
Book SynopsisThis book explores an emerging design culture that rigorously applies systems thinking to the practice of design as a form of facilitating change on an increasingly crowded planet. Designers conversant in topics such as living systems, cultural competence, social justice, and power asymmetries can contribute their creative skills to the world of social innovation to help address the complex social challenges of the 21st century. By establishing a foundation built on the capabilities approach to human development, designers have an opportunity to transcend previous disciplinary constraints, and redefine our understanding of design agency. With an emphasis on developing an adaptability to dynamic situations, the cultivation of diversity, and an insistence on human dignity, this book weaves together theories and practices from diverse fields of thought and action to provide designers with a concrete yet flexible set of actionable design principles. And, wTrade Review"This book is an impressive account of design’s relation to capability theory. I recommend it to anyone interested in how design can inform strategies of social innovation." — VICTOR MARGOLIN, Author of World History of Design Professor Emeritus of Design History, University of Illinois Chicago"Scott Boylston imagines something very exciting: the insights and creativity of designers unleashed not in the service of consumerism but instead of a working planet. Given the crisis we are now enduring, we have an unprecedented opportunity to design something new, if we work together. This book gives some clues about how to do just that." — BILL MCKIBBEN, Founder, 350.org, and author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? "There are several good reasons to read (and to study) this book. And one of them, in my view, makes it unique: it’s the first book that really helps designers understand the meaning and the design implications of the capabilities approach: That is, to recognize that their role is not to offer pre-defined solutions, but to enlarge people’s freedom to be what they want to be and act as they prefer. And, at the same time, to offer them motivations and concrete possibilities to choose to do it in a sustainable way." — EZIO MANZINI Author, Design When Everybody Designs, and founder, DESIS Network"Scott Boylston provides a thoughtful and necessary path for designers to contribute to social innovation. This is an important book for those seeking to design ways to change the world for the better and create a more sustainable future." — DEIRDRE WHITE CEO, PYXERA Global"Written in an articulate and accessible prose not often found in academic books, Scott Boylston offers his reader a very compelling analysis of how social innovation and design for sustainability can work together as change agents shifting existing paradigms of everyday life, to empower and transform our thinking about design’s purpose and future potential. A must read for designers, design management and design students." — ELIZABETH RESNICK Professor Emerita, Communication Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Author, The Social Design Reader"The next generation of design practitioners are now asking the question of how we can develop new capabilities and mindsets to tackle complex social challenges. In Designing with Society, Scott Boylston provides us with a comprehensive guide to a new systemic and holistic design ethos which integrates the frameworks and approaches of the leading thinkers in this new field with his own extensive experience in innovation and environmental design." — SIMON ROBINSON Co-author, Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter "It is a profound truth to say that humanity is on the verge of self-destruction because we lack the design capabilities for entire cultural systems. This book comes as a spiritual cry to the design schools of the world that we must pull back the facades of grandeur and look ourselves in the eye, see ourselves with warts and all, and do the internal work to bring the best science and design ethics together for the transformation of every domain of human existence." — JOE BREWER Founder + Executive Director, Center for Applied Cultural Evolution "Scott Boylston’s Designing with Society offers a deeply integrated and deeply felt revisioning of the powerful ideas, practices and underling theories driving social innovation at its best today. The book is highly readable and detailed with the author’s concepts of relevant systems thinking models and social change processes. As a living systems approach to social change, the book encourages the reader to expand their viewpoint as to what’s possible. Designing with Society gives sage guidance that connects the best wisdom of design knowledge with profound approaches to social change." — Peter Jones Director of Research, sLab, OCAD Co-founder, Systemic Design Research Network" Get this book and consume it cover to cover. I guarantee that it will be the most important book about the potential of design that you will ever read. Trust me on this. Our future depends on it."— JOHN BIELENBERG, Co-Founder, Pando Institute and COMMON, and Founder, Think Wrong Institute "In his new book, Scott Boylston calls for a new stage in learning for design and social innovation that requires ‘an elevation of awareness.’ This book is the crucial next step in evolving and elevating social impact design. Boylston brings together a breadth of knowledge and approaches necessary in seeding and catalyzing social and environmental change. It is an important, transdisciplinary step in evolving design for social impact!" — TERRY IRWIN, Head, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University "Designing with Society is a rigorously researched and thoughtful imperative for designers to shift from passive reflection to active reflexivity in our education and practice. Boylston calls for a shift from rote design assumptions and worldview to a "consciousness competence" that deepens designers’ social and cultural literacy. The grounding principles in Designing with Society challenge and inspire us to be more humane and just in our design practice and to address head-on the ingrained power asymmetry that prevents us from contributing more effectively to the self-realization of others."— MIKE WEIKERT & LEE DAVIS, Directors, Center for Social Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) "Boylston offers an authentic and highly relevant approach to design practice for our times. Designing with Society engages with design on its own terms—forcing designers to face our weaknesses while broadening and employing our strengths to the benefit of the natural environment and the human condition." — MARCIA LAUSEN, Director, School of Design, University of Illinois at Chicago and Principal, Studio/lab "In an original way, Designing with Society establishes a terrain for a new design attitude, the design capabilities approach, that aligns Sen and Nussbaum’s capabilities approach and its core tenets with environmental sustainability and social justice principles into a set of workable criteria for designers, resulting in a refreshing guide for designers. and design students."— LARA PENIN, Director of the Transdisciplinary Design Graduate Program, Parsons/The New SchoolTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION SECTION ONE: Interdependence, and Why Social Innovation Matters 1: Understanding the Interconnectedness of our Challenge 2. Society’s Interdependence with Ecological Vitality 3. Appreciating Social Systems through a Living Systems Lens 4. An Emerging Era of Social Innovation 5. Seeking a Moore’s Law for Social Innovation SECTION TWO: Designing with Mindfulness, Balance, and a Commitment to Justice 6: Rejecting the Short for the Long 7: Rejecting the Shallow for the Deep 8: The Power of Capabilities 9: The Challenge of Power Asymmetry SECTION THREE: An Emerging Design Agency in Social Innovation 10: Pathways for Design in Social Innovation 11. Seeing More of What’s There 12: Dispositions and Opportunites for Diffusion 13: Design and Managing Change 14: Design and the Unfolding Movement 15: A Fifth Stage of Competence APPENDIX INDEX NOTES
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Heritage
Book SynopsisThis book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose. Through theoretical discussion and illustrative examples, Sustainable Heritage reframes the history of multiple movements within preservation and sustainable-design strategies into cross-disciplinary themes. Through topics such as Cultural Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and Resource Systems; Integrating Biodiversity into the Built Environment Rehabilitation Practice; Fixing the Shortcomings Within Community Design, Planning, and Policy; Strategies for Adapting Buildings and Structures for Rising Sea Levels; and Vehicles as a Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation, the book explores contemporary ecological and heritage ethics as a strategy for improving the livability of the built environment.The authors provide a holistic critique of the challenges we face in light ofTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Cultural Relationships with Nature, Ecology, Biodiversity, Energy, and Resource Systems Chapter 3: History and Theory of Heritage Preservation Chapter 4: History and Theory of Sustainable Design Chapter 5: Architecture and Building Design Chapter 6: Integrating Biodiversity into the Built Environment Rehabilitation Practice Chapter 7: Fixing the shortcomings within community design, planning and policy Chapter 8: Going with the Flow: Strategies for Adapting Buildings and Structures For Rising Sea Levels Chapter 9: Vehicles as a Microcosm of Approaching Built Environment Rehabilitation Chapter 10: Conclusions on Lessons from the Past for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment
Book SynopsisThe refurbishment of existing buildings is a crucial yet often neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings. Many old buildings waste large amounts of energy and provide poor internal conditions for occupants through poor lighting, poor ventilation, solar penetration and glare, and poor control of heating and cooling. Demolition is an option but the refurbishment alternative is increasingly seen as more sustainable in terms of architectural value, materials use, neighbourhood disruption and waste disposal. In addition, the potential impact of low energy refurbishment is much greater than that for new build since there are many more buildings already in existence than will be built in the next 10 - 20 years, the period over which many CO2 emission targets apply. The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Non-Domestic Buildings offers architects, engineers and a wide range of building professionals practical advice, illustrated by realTrade Review'An incisive book that provides practical strategies and tactics for sustainable refurbishment, literally from the ground up. Richly illustrated with informative diagrams, supported by accessible quantitative analysis, and reinforced by detailed case study examples, this book is a triumph.' Koen Steemers PhD RIBA/ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design and Head of the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge 'Nick Baker tackles head on what many eminent scientists in Cambridge regard as most pressing contemporary problems, the sustainable refurbishment of the existing building stock, much of which is going to be with us still in 2050. Dr. Baker delivers his profound understanding of these difficult issues in a wholly intelligible and compelling way. I cannot commend this book to my profession and its patrons highly enough.' Professor Alan Short, University of Cambridge and Short and Associates Architects 'Definitely worth reading, learning from and implementing the practical experience of the REVIVAL team.' Building Engineer Magazine 'Innovative ideas for improvements, which may become increasingly necessary in the coming years ... a challenging and interesting read, providing complex technical solutions to issues which require a full understanding of building pathology.' Context Journal, Institute of Historic Building Conservation 'Challenging and interesting read.' Context, IHBC 'The Hanbook of Sustainable Refurbishment offers practical advice illustrated by real examples'. DETAIL Magazine 'A very useful introduction to the subject ... appropriate for younger professionals and also for their more experienced colleagues who may be contemplating undertaking sustainable refurbishment for the first time.' Proceedings of the Institute of Civil EngineersTable of ContentsPart I 1: Strategies for sustainable refurbishment. Part II 2: Floors 3: Walls 4: Roofs 5: Windows 6: Atria and Double Skins 7: Mechanical Plant and Controls 8: Renewable Energy Options Part III: Case Studies 9. The Albatros, Den Hedler, Nedtherlands 10. Lycee Chevrollier, Angers, France 11. Daneshill House, Stevenage, UK 12. Ministry of Finance Offices, Athens 13. The Meyer Hospital, Florence, Italy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future
Book SynopsisSince the spread of classical design and construction amongst the upper echolons of British society in the late seventeenth century, traditional construction methods have largely fallen by the wayside. Centuries later, as the construction industry faces up to its environmental responsibilities, this book explores its rich and ancient tradition to provide tried and trusted solutions to modern day construction problems.By way of introduction, the ancient and historical lifestyles that dictated the nature of traditional construction are explored, before focussing on its health and ecological benefits. As well as cultural background, this book includes a detailed scientific description of traditional building materials and their constituents which draws a sharp contrast with modern petrochemical-based materials. The studies of traditional buildings included reveal the sustainability of features such as natural ventilation and breathing walls, and comparisons withTrade Review'Inclusion of a detailed study of how traditional methods related to current building regulations make this a practical and useful guide for construction professionals, as well as ammunition for the informed client.' Ancient Monuments Society'This is a timely, thoughtful consideration of the true impacts of modern materials, and of the practicalities of achieving the same ends by other means. It will also serve as a useful source of reference when dealing with particular aspects of traditional building design and materials, whether as an architect, surveyor, owner or advisor.' Context, the journal of the IHBC'This is an incredibly important book, all the more so for its timing...Ryan gives us here the essential text for considering twenty-first century values in pre-twentieth century construction.' Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 'Carole Ryan's book is a timely publication, well-suited to students of building conservation'Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings MagazineTable of Contents1. The Natural Way of Life, the Birth of the Traditional House and its Demise 2. Traditional Building Materials, their Sustainability, and the Contrast with Modern Materials 3. Traditional Sustainable Building Construction- Ancient and Modern 4. Thermal Performance and the Breathing Wall 5. Climate, Site and Thermal Performance 6. The Role of the Building Regulations in Traditional Building Construction 7. The Pathology of Traditional Buildings
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Taylor & Francis Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building
Book SynopsisThis timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. In the context of climate change and increasing energy costs, imperatives to replace or substantially modify older and historic buildings are rapidly accelerating. The idea that a new or replacement building will perform better overlooks the embodied carbon of that which it replaces. In effect, the pressures of one conservation agenda, that of energy efficiency, threaten to eclipse another, that of heritage. The embodied carbon of existing buildings must be addressed if calculations of operational energy use are to be properly balanced. In this book, an international and multi-disciplinary group of authors offer perspectives on the leverage and implementation of strategies to account for embodied carbon for the conservation of the historic environment. Examples are deliberately diverse and extend be
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Island Press The Power of Existing Buildings: Save Money,
Book SynopsisYour building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition of the significant contribution of buildings to climate change, the idea of building green has become increasingly popular. But is it enough? If an energy-efficient building is new construction, it may take 10 to 80 years to overcome the climate change impacts of the building process. New buildings are sexy, but few realize the value in existing buildings and how easy it is to get to "zero energy" or low-energy consumption through deep energy retrofits. Existing buildings can and should be retrofit to reduce environmental impacts that contribute to climate change, while improving human health and productivity for building occupants. In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals. The Power of Existing Buildings helps decision-makers move beyond incremental changes to holistic, results-oriented solutions.
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Springer Vieweg Implementierung von Nachhaltigkeit in den
Book SynopsisKurzfassung.- Abkürzungsverzeichnis.- Formelzeichen.- 1.Einleitung.- 2.Themenkontext.- 3.Stand der Technik und Forschung.- 4.Leitfaden zur Berücksichtigung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten in den Leistungsphasen der HOAI.- 5.Anwendung des Leitfadens im Praxiszusammenhang.- 6.Schlussbetrachtung.- Literatur.- Anhang.- Abbildungsverzeichnis.- Tabellenverzeichnis.
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Instituto Monsa de Ediciones ECO House: Green Roofs and Vertical Gardens
Book SynopsisEnvironmentally-friendly architecture has come on leaps and bounds in the last two decades - a combination of new materials, new construction techniques, and architects willing to take on the challenge, has seen stunning eco-projects come to life around the world. This superbly illustrated volume brings together a collection of environmentally-friendly projects from around the world, all of which have one thing in common - their innovative and exciting use of green space. Whether a vertical garden, an interior green space, or a garden roof, these stunning projects showcase the future of environmentally-friendly housing.
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