The Whole Building Handbook - Healthy Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Eco-cycles and Place

Zusatztext The Whole Building Handbook is the most comprehensive book in the area of sustainable building and covers a large area from materials to system thinking. This will be a key book for practitioners as well as teachers and students at universities. Prof. Ronald Wennersten! School of Industrial Engineering and Management! Stockholm The sheer scientific and engineering comprehensiveness of this book...coupled with its readability! make it a must for anyone wanting to acquire new knowledge and information about the broad! multidisciplinary field of sustainability. Choice MagazineA key handbook for all practitioners as well as teachers and students at universities! and the broader sustainable society. Dave Palmer! Building Engineer! April 2010 Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung A compendium of the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. It includes guidance for architecture that promotes social cohesion, renewable energy sources, water and waste recycling systems, energy conservation and buildings in relation to their place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Healthy Buildings 2. Conservation and Efficiency 3. Ecocycles 4. Place Index

Product details

• Authors: Maria Block, Block Maria, Varis Bokalders, Varis/ Block Bokalders, Bokalders Varis, Varis Bokalders
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2009
• EAN: 9781844078332
• ISBN: 978-1-84407-833-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design