Sustainability, Energy and Architecture: Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects exploring green building technologies. It covers such pivotal issues as daylighting, LED lighting, integrating renewables such as solar thermal and cooling, retrofitting, LEED and similar certification efforts, passive houses, net-zero and close-zero structures, water recycling, and much more. Highlighting best practices for commercial buildings and private homes, in widely varied climates and within vastly different socio-economic contexts, this illustrated reference will guide architects and engineers in making sustainable choices in building materials and methods.

Features case studies by experts from a dozen countries, demonstrating how sustainable architecture can be achieved in varied climates and economies

Covers both new constructions and retrofitting of existing structures

PART I- METHODS & MATERIALS

Sustainable Energy & Architecture

Key Performance Characteristics of Sustainable Buildings

Building Materials and Their Lifecycles

Experiential Sustainability in the Corporate Environment

Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes

Deep Energy Retrofits for Existing Houses

Daylighting

The LED Lighting Revolution

PART II- INT’L CASE STUDIES

Dutch Efforts Toward Sustainable Built Environment

Energy Efficiency Building Measures in Sweden

Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai

Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba

Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture

PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT

ECOArchitects

Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context

Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future

Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai

Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba

Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture

PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT

ECOArchitects

Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context

Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future