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Challenged by the recent economic crisis, the building and construction industry is currently seeking new orientation and strategies. Here mass customisation is uncovered as a key strategy in helping to meet this challenge. The term mass customisation denotes an offering that meets the demands of...
To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
Convergence is based on a seemingly simple and straightforward notion: doing more with less. In our current context of increasing demand for diminishing resources, architects have inevitably begun looking beyond the operation of buildings themselves as the site of sustainability. But how do we...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The...
To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
This book introduces the concept of Intelligent Buildings to the wider construction community. Edited by the Father of Intelligent Buildings, Derek Clements-Croome, the book explains that intelligent buildings should be sustainable, healthy, technologically aware, meet the needs of occupants...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with 30,000 buildings realised to date. Yet, remarkably, until now no book in English has been published which clearly explains how to design and build passivhaus. As a technical reference for architects, engineers and...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design,...
To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge
Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner city migration has transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern, high rise city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Critical Concepts in Built Environment
The ‘fit for purpose’ of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on ‘sustainable buildings’ is relatively new. The last two decades in particular have seen an explosion of published material on the...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, Indoor Environmental Quality is still poor in many cases. The Healthy Indoor Environment aims to help architects, building engineers, and anyone concerned with the wellbeing of building occupants, to better understand the effects of spending time...
To Be Published November 5th 2013 by Routledge
Author Brook Muller understands that your design tendencies influence your working methods and impact the "greeness" of your buildings. This book explains design strategies and emphasizes the importance of your poetic judgment when you're dealing with complex and dynamic ecological systems. Muller...
To Be Published January 1st 2014 by Routledge
