Green Construction
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Carbon Management in the Built Environment
Three broad sectors of the economy are generally recognized as key to a low carbon future: energy, construction and transportation. Of these, carbon management in the built environment remains the least well-studied. This much-needed book brings together the latest developments in...
Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Earthships in Europe
2nd Edition
The new edition of this successful book is a detailed description and evaluation of earthships in Europe. Its main purpose is to judge whether the translation of earthships – an American architectural concept pioneered in the New Mexico desert – to a European setting has been successful. The book...
Published July 15th 2012 by IHS BRE Press
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Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods
As we increasingly become aware of the causes and consequences of the climate change, there is a sense that we are dealing with an almost impossible problem to solve; that our targets for zero carbon buildings are far in the future; and that our targets are hard to achieve. This book develops a...
Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
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BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes on the London 2012 Olympic Park
Lessons from the Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village
This publication contributes to the ‘learning legacy’ for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and shares the lessons learned about sustainable design and construction on this exceptional project with the construction industry. The report examines the achievement of high levels of...
Published August 6th 2012 by IHS BRE Press
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Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
Paths to the Future
Construction is one of the biggest industries in the world, providing necessary facilities for human prosperity ranging from the homes in which we live to the highways we drive, the power plants that provide energy for our daily activities, and the very infrastructure on which human society is...
Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Sustainable Retrofit and Facilities Management
Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per cent reduction by 2050, when twenty-eight million buildings that currently exist will still be standing; this represents a challenge to improve...
Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings
Warm Climates
Despite recent improvements in energy efficiency being made in new build, it is important that the existing commercial building sector also take action to meet emission reduction targets. The objectives and challenges of such action will reduce the risk of the sector becoming obsolete due to high...
Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Whole Building Handbook
How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
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...
Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Housing
Based on careful analysis and experience in all housing sectors and house types, this handbook explains and demonstrates how to incorporate the most effective energy saving measures in the existing housing stock. It begins by setting out the basic aims of sustainable refurbishment before presenting...
Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings
Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings aims to provide a guide to members of design and masterplanning teams on how to deliver sustainable development and buildings cost effectively, meeting current and emerging UK and international statutory and planning requirements. Using a series of case...
Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
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A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering
An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance
Series: BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
The combined challenges of health, comfort, climate change and energy security cross the boundaries of traditional building disciplines. This authoritative collection, focusing mostly on energy and ventilation, provides the current and next generation of building engineering professionals with what...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Ecohouse
4th Edition
Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy-efficient design...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes
Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice
Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings. This book responds to this demand by offering a comprehensive guide which features: architectural innovations in building skin...
Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
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The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual
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
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Green Buildings Pay
Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Sustainable Buildings
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
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Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But...
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Design for Climate Change
Aimed at architects, contractors, engineers and specialists in the field, this book uses real-world evidence from a Technology Strategy Board-funded research project to develop a set of tools for architects and other building designers to meet a growing need to anticipate future climate change....
Published April 4th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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Building for the Future: an Introduction to Passive House
Throughout the world, Passive House is now recognised as the best method to create comfortable, healthy, low energy buildings and it is a key component of the 21st century's green economic revolution. Written by one of the UK's leading passive house architects, this book contains essays that...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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What Colour is your Building?
Defining and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Buildings
Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint. What Colour is...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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Whole Life Sustainability
Whole Life Costing (WLC) needs to become a tool in the design process: that is the argument of this new title by Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett. For too long WLC has been misunderstood, considered too complicated for designers to undertake on a readily practical basis. But techniques are...
Published April 4th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture
101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. In an area where ever-changing technology and complex legislation and can cloud the designer’s thought-processes, this book encourages the designer to think clearly and intuitively about the...
Published February 4th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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Design for Biodiversity: A Technical Guide for New and Existing Buildings
The built environment has the potential to have a major impact on biodiversity, not least with the increasingly demanding requirements to design more energy efficient and airtight buildings, leaving less space for species to inhabit. The construction industry has an important role to play in...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by RIBA Publishing
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Green Buildings and the Law
Series: CIB
In countries such as the UK, the energy used in constructing, occupying and operating buildings represents approximately fifty percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure to improve the environmental performance of buildings during both construction and occupancy, particularly to reduce carbon...
Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
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A Green Vitruvius
Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design, 2nd Edition
Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern...
Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Green Building with Concrete
Sustainable Design and Construction
With superior fire resistance, strength, and a long service life, concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. A sustainable material, concrete is also easily and affordably reused and rehabilitated. The first book to provide an overview of sustainability and concrete, Green...
Published October 18th 2011 by CRC Press
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Zero-carbon Homes
A Road Map
Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue. Providing homes that achieve "zero carbon", "carbon neutral", "zero-net energy" or "energy-plus" standard is becoming the goal of more...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Financing UK Carbon Reduction Projects
(FB 31)
This publication explores the funding of project-based carbon reduction projects in the UK by: surveying potential sources of supply and demand for such emission reductions examining the regulatory hurdles that need to be overcome to put a funding mechanism in place. It recommends the creation of...
Published May 23rd 2011 by IHS BRE Press
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Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design
The energy used to operate buildings is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. To lessen the human impact on climate, it is necessary to reduce these building-related emissions. New legislation, as well as market and financial pressures, are driving architects and...
Published December 14th 2011 by CRC Press
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Integral Sustainable Design
Transformative Perspectives
This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses integral theory to make sense of the many competing ideas in this area and offers a powerful conceptual framework...
Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Construction in the Landscape
A Handbook for Civil Engineering to Conserve Global Land Resources
Construction in the Landscape describes the impact of construction on the land and landscape where it takes place. Geographical coverage is necessarily global to reflect the great variation both in people's economic and social needs and in the shortage or abundance of natural resources. Part one...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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A Guide to the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)
What it Does and How it Works (FB 24)
This BRE Trust Report describes how the Simplified Building Energy Model works, and explains the processes and assumptions within it. The report has been written specifically for professionals who need to see behind the user interface, without going into mathematical detail....
Published April 13th 2010 by IHS BRE Press
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Building-mounted Micro-wind Turbines on High-rise and Commercial Buildings
(FB 22)
This report provides guidance on the most effective height and location for wind turbine installations on the roofs of tall buildings....
Published March 25th 2010 by IHS BRE Press
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A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering
An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance
Series: BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
The combined challenges of health, comfort, climate change and energy security cross the boundaries of traditional building disciplines. This authoritative collection, focusing mostly on energy and ventilation, provides the current and next generation of building engineering professionals with what...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Advances in Building Energy Research
Volume 3
Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards. As stringently reviewed as a journal but with the...
Published June 1st 2009 by Routledge
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Building for a Changing Climate
The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy
There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have...
Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
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Sustainable Solar Housing
Two Volume Set
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production,...
Published September 29th 2009 by Routledge
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The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Non-Domestic Buildings
The refurbishment of existing buildings is a crucial yet often neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings. Many old buildings waste large amounts of energy and provide poor internal conditions for occupants through poor lighting, poor...
Published August 27th 2009 by Routledge
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The Indoor Environment Handbook
How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable
Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins...
Published October 13th 2009 by Routledge
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The Whole Building Handbook
How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
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...
Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Sustainability in the Built Environment
An Introduction to its Definition and Measurement (BR 502)
This report brings together current thinking on defining and measuring sustainability. It sets out concisely the key issues in this large and complex area....
Published February 15th 2009 by IHS BRE Press
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Sustainable Developments in Sweden
Lessons for Ecotowns (BR 507)
This report of a study tour to Malm and Stockholm in Sweden offers real opportunities for exportation and further adaptation to the UK Ecotowns programme....
Published November 30th 2009 by IHS BRE Press
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Sustainable Masonry Construction
(EP 99)
This book counters claims that masonry is an outmoded form of construction. It examines the ways in which the masonry sector can produce sustainable buildings that not only match the environmental targets set by government, but go beyond them....
Published December 15th 2009 by IHS BRE Press
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Energy: Management, Supply and Conservation
2nd Edition
Energy – its source, security, price, and the efficiency of its use, are increasingly important issues for a diverse range of people. Energy: Management, Supply and Conservation is a comprehensive text dealing with the theory and practice of the supply of energy, energy management and auditing,...
Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Smart Home Systems and the Code for Sustainable Homes
A BRE Guide (BR 506)
How smart home systems can support the achievement of the performance levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes...
Published November 19th 2009 by IHS BRE Press
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Advances in Building Energy Research
Volume 2
'Several high quality scientific journals are published in the area of building energy and indoor/outdoor environment; however, one has been missing. Advances in Building Energy Research fills the gap. I recommend ABER to all technical libraries, research institutes and universities. It should also...
Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
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Putting a Price on Sustainable Schools
(FB 15)
This report provides an understanding of the cost benefit implications of building schools to BREEAM ratings and low/zero-carbon standards....
Published April 24th 2008 by IHS BRE Press
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Siting Micro-Wind Turbines on House Roofs
(FB 18)
This report provides a simple tool for selecting the most suitable location for siting a wind turbine on a duo-pitch house roof and for calculating the expected wind speeds over house roofs to determine its power output....
Published May 13th 2008 by IHS BRE Press