| Environment, Technology and Sustainability Contributor(s): Bougdah, Hocine (Author), Sharples, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415403782 ISBN-13: 9780415403788 Publisher: Taylor & Francis OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: This comprehensive volume explores the environmental influences on building design introduced in Volume 1 to the depth appropriate to students of architecture, architectural technology, building surveying and cognate disciplines. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning |
| Dewey: 720.47 |
| LCCN: 2008046859 |
| Series: Technologies of Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.5" W x 9.7" (1.80 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
