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The Whole Building Handbook: How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
Contributor(s): Bokalders, Varis (Author), Block, Maria (Author)
ISBN: 1844078337     ISBN-13: 9781844078332
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $266.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2010
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Annotation: This book 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
- Architecture | Sustainability & Green Design
- Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
Dewey: 720.47
LCCN: 2009002968
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 7.6" W x 9.7" (4.55 lbs) 704 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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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.