Sustainability at the Cutting Edge: Emerging Technologies for Low Energy Buildings

ISBN-13: 9780750683005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 196 str.

Smith

Opis

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer.

Recenzje

Of the first edition: 'An absorbing study of the technology available for low energy buildings.' Permaculture Magazine '...the book is well written and illustrated. There are copious graphs, diagrams and photographs. The author backs up his arguments with statistics.' Northeast Sun 'This book is a useful guide to a comprehensive range of established and developing technologies.' EcoTech, Sustainable Architecture Today

Spis treści

.Introduction
.New foreword by Lord Rogers
.Short introduction to new edition and 2005 lecture by Prince Philip presented at the Royal Society of Arts
.Solar Thermal Power
.Low energy techniques for cooling
.Geothermal energy
.Wind Power
.Photovoltaic cells
.Fuel cells
.Biogas
.Micro-Power
.Small-scale hydro
.Wave and tide
.Prospects for the energy infrastructure
.Materials
.The photonic revolution
.Building integrated renewable energy: case studies
.Sustainability on a knife edge

O autorze

Peter F. Smith