Chapter 1: Sustainability Drivers
This chapter provides a review of the principle milestones which
have brought about the shift in attitudes towards sustainable
design of the built environment.
Chapter 2: Policy and Legislation
This chapter aims to highlight the key policy drivers for the
creation of more-sustainable construction and the legislative
requirements that need to be met.
Chapter 3: Cost Issues
This chapter undertakes a comprehensive review of the cost
implications of 'green' building.
Chapter 4: Appraisal Tools and Techniques
A thorough and concise review of methods of obtaining feedback from
buildings in use and the history of development of the techniques
with a series of case studies largely taken from the PROBE
studies.
Chapter 5: Materials Selection
This chapter aims to give the reader a sound and broad grasp of the
issues and priorities affecting materials selection in the design
of places, buildings, services and objects and a realistic
perspective on the range of issues which will affect decision
making.
Chapter 6: Low Impact Construction
This chapter looks at recent innovative initiatives to design using
very low impact materials such as straw, earth, hemp and
timber.
Chapter 7: Heating
This concise document aims to enable the reader to be better
equipped to deliver high quality buildings which have a low heating
demand and retain a positive affect on health and well being.
Chapter 8: Electrical Installations
This chapter is intended to help designers to develop strategies
for low impact electrical services design and to implement them
effectively.
Chapter 9: Lighting and Daylighting
This chapter is designed to enable the professional to be better
able to make informed decisions about lighting & daylighting
design. It directs the reader to contemporary tools and guidance
which will assist in implementing best practice.
Chapter 10: Ventilation and Cooling Strategies
Many buildings remain less comfortable and healthy then they might
be and consume unnecessary energy for ventilation & cooling. This
chapter seeks to highlight the principal issues and sources of
guidance.
Chapter 11: Renewable Technologies
Increasingly part of the design pallet and with increasing support
from government, renewables are still new to the vast majority of
designers and clients. This chapter will give guidance on how to
make best use of the available opportunities and how to go about
designing and specifying appropriate systems.
Chapter 12: Water and Sewage Management
This chapter considers the flow of water through buildings. It
looks at its efficient use, the appropriate treatment of the
wastewater discharged and the potential for reuse. It also
considers rain falling on and around buildings, the potential for
reuse and appropriate discharge.
Chapter 13: Construction Processes
This chapter provides best practice guidance on tender evaluation,
site practice, management and handover.
Chapter 14: Urban Ecology
This chapter considers the sustainable design of the built
environment of our cities and countryside.
*Best practice solutions and case studies *Practical advice on implementation of sustainable construction techniques *Prepared by industry experts for their peers
"This is a most attractively designed book profusely illustrated
with case studies of a range of sustainable buildings, several by
the Scottish and Norwegian branches of Gaia Architects. It is so
attractive it could almost pass as a “coffee table book” but is
much more...This book should be read by every construction
professional, and be on every student’s reading list. It is the
product of half a lifetime’s work on sustainability, based on
Gaia’s eco-minimalist approach"
Jim Johnson, Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) magazine
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