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Informationen zum Autor Lisa Gelfand! FAIA! LEED-AP! one of the preeminent experts in green design and construction! is Managing Principal of Gelfand Partners Architects (gelfand-partners.com) in San Francisco. With more than three decades of experience! Gelfand has been involved in all aspects of a project! including project management! design! planning! marketing! and staff management. Her firm has designed many award-winning sustainable buildings and renovations.Chris Duncan! AIA! LEED-AP! has two decades of experience and is a principal and senior staff manager at Gelfand Partners Architects. Duncan has managed project teams through all phases of design and construction. He has special expertise in educational and residential design! particularly the modernization of early twentieth-century buildings. He is also involved in a variety of community and professional service projects. Klappentext This book on sustainable renovation will focus on how buildings are made and sites developed! and on the improvements to building systems and envelopes that can be accomplished within both historic and modern existing buildings. Great examples of existing building upgrades will be examined! illustrating how to do sustainable renovations. The authors will emphasize more recent institutional and commercial buildings that pose greater challenges but also provide greater opportunities for extensive change in the performance of the built environment. Readers will learn about design approaches to radically improve performance of existing pre-war! post-war! and late modern buildings! approaches to achieve major modernization in occupied building! and incremental modernization and operations strategies available for immediate implementation. Zusammenfassung This book on sustainable renovation will focus on how buildings are made and sites developed, and on the improvements to building systems and envelopes that can be accomplished within both historic and modern existing buildings. Great examples of existing building upgrades will be examined, illustrating how to do sustainable renovations. The authors will emphasize more recent institutional and commercial buildings that pose greater challenges but also provide greater opportunities for extensive change in the performance of the built environment. Readers will learn about design approaches to radically improve performance of existing pre-war, post-war, and late modern buildings, approaches to achieve major modernization in occupied building, and incremental modernization and operations strategies available for immediate implementation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 76595764 ...
