The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design - Softcover

Kwok, Alison G.; Grondzik, Walter T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750680229 ISBN 13: 9780750680226

Publisher: US Green Building Council, 2006

Synopsis

With more and more clients and architecture schools demanding ‘green’ design, both student and professional architects need to get up to speed quickly with the vast range of techniques in this fast moving area.

This extensive and user-friendly handbook presents practical guidelines for applying environmental strategies during the schematic design of green buildings. For each strategy, the book provides: brief descriptions of principles and concepts, step-by-step approaches for integrating technologies into the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary design sizing, key issues to be aware of when implementing a given strategy, and references to the most recent international standards and rating systems, guidelines, and internet resources.

The text is reinforced with conceptual sketches and photos in full color, illustrating each strategy. A discussion of the green design process and case studies of several green building projects puts the strategies presented in context.

* Provides information required to implement green design ideas with confidence and accuracy.

* Practical information provided in an easy-to-use format.

* Full colour images throughout.

About this title

Book Description

A practical guide to using green concepts in design

About the Author

Alison G. Kwok, Ph.D., AIA, LEED-AP, ASES Fellow, is a registered architect and a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. She has also taught in architecture programs in California, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and New York.

Walter Grondzik, PE, LEED-AP, ASES and ASHRAE Fellow, is an architectural engineer and a professor of architecture at Ball State University. He has also taught in architecture and architectural engineering programs in Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Saudi Arabia.

Edition details

• Publisher: US Green Building Council
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750680229
• ISBN 13: 9780750680226
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378