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Environment, technology, and sustainability / Hocine Bougdah and Stephen Sharples.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Technologies of architecture ; v.2.Publisher: Abingdon [England] ; New York, NY : Taylor & Francis, 2009Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415403782
  • 9780415403788
  • 0415403790
  • 9780415403795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.47 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.36 .B68 2009
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. Buildings and Climate Design -- Part 2. Buildings and Low Energy Design -- Part 3. Energy Systems and Services in Buildings -- Part 4. Buildings and Lighting Design -- Part 5. Acoustic Design and the Aural Environment -- Part 6. Sustainable Building Design -- Part 7. Case Studies.
Summary: "This second volume in the Technologies of Architecture series - the only series of books tuned to the architectural technology syllabus - explores the environmental influences on building design. Looking particularly at sustainable building, a holistic view is taken, so that the influence of any one set of choices on other areas - such as the trade-off of daylighting against thermal insulation, or the balance needed between heating and ventilation - are not overlooked. The authors discuss available technologies for establishing a suitable microclimate within buildings, for managing the transmission of sound and for minimizing the exploitation of scarce energy and of other resources. Using the perspective of a designer who needs a sound scientific basis for arriving at the optimum outcome, this valuably informative volume is ideal for architectural technology students, as well as first and second year architecture students."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1. Buildings and Climate Design -- Part 2. Buildings and Low Energy Design -- Part 3. Energy Systems and Services in Buildings -- Part 4. Buildings and Lighting Design -- Part 5. Acoustic Design and the Aural Environment -- Part 6. Sustainable Building Design -- Part 7. Case Studies.

"This second volume in the Technologies of Architecture series - the only series of books tuned to the architectural technology syllabus - explores the environmental influences on building design. Looking particularly at sustainable building, a holistic view is taken, so that the influence of any one set of choices on other areas - such as the trade-off of daylighting against thermal insulation, or the balance needed between heating and ventilation - are not overlooked. The authors discuss available technologies for establishing a suitable microclimate within buildings, for managing the transmission of sound and for minimizing the exploitation of scarce energy and of other resources. Using the perspective of a designer who needs a sound scientific basis for arriving at the optimum outcome, this valuably informative volume is ideal for architectural technology students, as well as first and second year architecture students."--Publisher's website.

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