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Book Synopsis

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. Ten new in-depth case studies illustrate diverse and successful green buildings integrated design projects and how the whole process comes together This third edition features updated tables and charts that will help to save energy, water, and material resources during the early stages of design. More than

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

CHAPTER 1 The Green

CHAPTER 2 The Studio

CHAPTER 3 The Handbook

CHAPTER 4 Design Strategies

Envelope

Site Analysis

Insulation Materials

Strawbale Construction

Structural Insulated Panels

Glazing

Double Envelopes

Green Roofs

Lighting

Daylight Factor

Daylight Zoning

Toplighting

Sidelighting

Light Shelves

Internal Reflectances

Shading Devices

Electric Lighting

Heating

Direct Gain

Indirect Gain

Isolated Gain

Active Solar Thermal Energy Systems

Ground Source Heat Pumps

Cooling

Cross Ventilation

Stack Ventilation

Evaporative Cool Towers

Night Ventilation of Thermal Mass

Earth Cooling Tubes

Earth Sheltering

Absorption Chillers

Energy Production

Plug Loads

Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers

Energy Recovery Systems

Photovoltaics

Wind Turbines

Microhydro Turbines

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Combined Heat and Power Systems

Water and Waste

Water Accounting

Water Reuse/Recycling

Water Catchment Systems

Pervious Surfaces

Bioswales

Retention Ponds

Living Machines

Composting Toilets

CHAPTER 5 Case Studies

A Roadmap to Strategies and Case Studies

Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Council House (CH2)

Exploratorium

GRoW Home Decathlon House

NASA Sustainability Base

Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center

SOS Children's Villages

Stellar Apartments

TechStyle Decathlon House

ZEB House

APPENDICES

  1. Before You Commit to a Strategy
  2. Estimating Design Heat Loss and Cooling Load
  3. Psychrometric Charts
  4. Glossary of Buildings
  5. Glossary of Case Studies from the 1st and 2nd Editions of The Green Studio Handbook
  6. Going Green . . . and Going Greener
  7. Glossary of Terms

INDEX

The Green Studio Handbook

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/22/2018 12:01:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781138652293, 978-1138652293
      ISBN10: 1138652296

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. Ten new in-depth case studies illustrate diverse and successful green buildings integrated design projects and how the whole process comes together This third edition features updated tables and charts that will help to save energy, water, and material resources during the early stages of design. More than

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      CHAPTER 1 The Green

      CHAPTER 2 The Studio

      CHAPTER 3 The Handbook

      CHAPTER 4 Design Strategies

      Envelope

      Site Analysis

      Insulation Materials

      Strawbale Construction

      Structural Insulated Panels

      Glazing

      Double Envelopes

      Green Roofs

      Lighting

      Daylight Factor

      Daylight Zoning

      Toplighting

      Sidelighting

      Light Shelves

      Internal Reflectances

      Shading Devices

      Electric Lighting

      Heating

      Direct Gain

      Indirect Gain

      Isolated Gain

      Active Solar Thermal Energy Systems

      Ground Source Heat Pumps

      Cooling

      Cross Ventilation

      Stack Ventilation

      Evaporative Cool Towers

      Night Ventilation of Thermal Mass

      Earth Cooling Tubes

      Earth Sheltering

      Absorption Chillers

      Energy Production

      Plug Loads

      Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers

      Energy Recovery Systems

      Photovoltaics

      Wind Turbines

      Microhydro Turbines

      Hydrogen Fuel Cells

      Combined Heat and Power Systems

      Water and Waste

      Water Accounting

      Water Reuse/Recycling

      Water Catchment Systems

      Pervious Surfaces

      Bioswales

      Retention Ponds

      Living Machines

      Composting Toilets

      CHAPTER 5 Case Studies

      A Roadmap to Strategies and Case Studies

      Centre for Mathematical Sciences

      Council House (CH2)

      Exploratorium

      GRoW Home Decathlon House

      NASA Sustainability Base

      Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center

      SOS Children's Villages

      Stellar Apartments

      TechStyle Decathlon House

      ZEB House

      APPENDICES

      1. Before You Commit to a Strategy
      2. Estimating Design Heat Loss and Cooling Load
      3. Psychrometric Charts
      4. Glossary of Buildings
      5. Glossary of Case Studies from the 1st and 2nd Editions of The Green Studio Handbook
      6. Going Green . . . and Going Greener
      7. Glossary of Terms

      INDEX

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