High-Performance Green Building Design:: A Practical Whole-System Approach - Hardcover

Strong, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608079597 ISBN 13: 9781608079599

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

This authoritative new resource provides a comprehensive review of the current approaches to the design and construction of sustainable buildings. This hand-on guide features global case studies with practical examples of both successful and unsuccessful designs.

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About the Author

David Strong is currently a director of David Strong Consulting and a visiting professor at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham, Department of Architecture and Built Environment. He was previously managing director of the UK Building Research Establishment (BRE), Environment Division. He received his D.Phil. from Oxford University and his B.Sc. in building engineering from Bath University. He was awarded the Building Sustainability Leadership award for establishing the UK Green Building Council.

Victoria Burrows is currently the head of sustainability for a major international contractor. Her work as a consultant in sustainable development and green building rating systems has spanned across several continents, industries, and perspectives of the development process. She received her B.Sc. in architecture and environmental design from the University of Nottingham and her international baccalaureate diploma from Henley College, UK.

Review

In this guidebook to achieving buildings that perform well with regard to both traditional measures and those related to the concept of sustainable development, the two primary authors have recruited nearly two dozen additional expert contributors to help encompass the full range of knowledge and system complexity that make modern buildings such engineering marvels. As a result, A Whole-System Approach to High-Performance Green Building reads as if it were a combination of the best elements of unified textbook and a proceedings volume form a high-powered symposium.

The book stresses that a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach that incorporated building commissioning is needed to achieve high-performance buildings. The authors define the book s overall goal, therefore, as closing the gap between design intent and the practical reality of delivering genuinely sustainable buildings. The book covers, among other topics, energy optimization, natural systems, water efficiency, modeling, simulation, design strategies, and opportunities arising in the construction and post construction phases.

Each chapter is an assemblage of relevant technical and process-oriented material drawn from both the primary authors and the contributors, and the breadth of topics is consistently impressive. For example, the chapter covering energy-optimizing design includes sections of the fundamentals of the building envelope, indoor environmental quality considerations, building control management systems, and friction and pressure loss in building services systems.
The chapters are peppered with short but effective case studies, and a concluding chapter offers nice more. These are focused on world-class sustainable buildings and were written with the assistance of key member of the teams that worked on the buildings. Encompassing an environmental center in the Chesapeake Bay region, a hospital in Singapore, a South African Hotel, and an office building in Seattle, the selections offer a wide range of contexts and solutions.
Authoritative and ambitious, A Whole-System Approach is a valuable resource for anyone involved in the design or construction of buildings intended to embody the principles of sustainable development. --Civil Engineering magazine, March 2017

This book is a great reference for both practitioners and students pursuing engineering and architecture. The well-researched case studies on best practices and latest green building developments make a compelling case for project teams to take an integrated approach to sustainable building design, construction and operation. --Ang Kian Seng, Group Director, Environmental Sustainability, Building and Construction Authority, Singapore

This book is an excellent and authoritative resource for anyone planning to develop, design, construct or maintain a sustainable building. The book contains much invaluable practical guidance, which if followed, will help to deliver the next generation of genuinely high performance green buildings. --Peter Rogers CBE FREng Eur Ing CEng, Partner, Lipton Rogers Developments. Formerly: co-founder of Stanhope plc and first Chairman UK Green Building Council

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1608079597
• ISBN 13: 9781608079599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 292