101 Rules of Thumb for Low-Energy Architecture: For Low-Energy Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781859469910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Huw Heywood

Opis

Buildings and construction are a major contributor to the climate and biodiversity emergency. They account for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It is more important than ever for architects to design responsibly and create low-carbon, low-energy buildings for a sustainable future.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Working with site and location 2. Manipulating orientation and form 3. The low-energy building envelope 4. Energy and the internal environment 5. Rules and strategies for different climatic regions

O autorze

Huw Heywood is an architect with over 30 years’ experience in practice and teaching internationally. His specialist teaching and research is in environmental & sustainable design and technology and he has taught as Principal Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth School of Architecture, as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and as a guest tutor/lecturer in the UK, Hong Kong, China and Germany.