The Whole Building Handbook: How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings

ISBN-13: 9781844075232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 704 str.

Varis Bokalders; Maria Block

Opis

This book is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency, to include guidance for architecture that promotes social cohesion, personal health, renewable energy sources, water and waste recycling systems, permaculture, energy conservation--and crucially, buildings in relation to their place.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Healthy Buildings  2. Conservation and Efficiency  3. Ecocycles  4. Place  Index

O autorze

Varis Bokalders is an ecological architect and the Director of the Architectural Company 'Ekokultur Konsulter AB' in Sweden. He also teaches Ecological Building at the Schools of Architecture and Civil Engineering at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Maria Block is an ecological architect and the founder of Block Architects Ltd, Sweden.