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

Name: The Whole Building Handbook: How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
Brand: Routledge
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The Whole Building Handbook 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. The authors offer a holistic approach to sustainable architecture and authoritative technical advice, on: * How to design and construct healthy buildings, through choosing suitable materials, healthy service systems, and designing a healthy and comfortable indoor climate, including solutions for avoiding problems with moisture, radon and noise as well as how to facilitate cleaning and maintenance. * How to design and construct buildings that use resources efficiently, where heating and cooling needs and electricity use is minimized and water-saving technologies and garbage recycling technologies are used. * How to 'close' organic waste, sewage, heat and energy cycles. For example, how to design a sewage system that recycles nutrients. * Includes a section on adaptation of buildings to local conditions, looking at how a site must be studied with respect to nature, climate and community structure as well as human activities. The result is a comprehensive, thoroughly illustrated and carefully structured textbook and reference.

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Brand: Routledge
Model: Full colour, figures, tables, graphs, in
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1844078337
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Reference > Methods & Materials
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2009
Listed Since: 13 February 2009

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