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Green building trends : Europe / Jerry Yudelson.
LIBRA TH880 .Y636 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yudelson, Jerry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable buildings--Europe--Design and construction.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Buildings--Energy conservation--Europe.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Energy conservation.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 158 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The PassivHaus Concept and European Residential Design 1
- What's a PassivHaus? 2
- What Can We Learn from the PassivHaus Approach? 6
- Chapter 2 European Design Innovators 15
- Foster + Partners, U.K. 15
- David Lloyd Jones and Studio E, U.K. 15
- Thomas Herzog and Partners, Germany 16
- White Design, U.K. 16
- Bennetts Associates Architects, U.K. 18
- Hopkins Architects, U.K. 19
- Make Architects, U.K. 20
- Arup Associates, U.K. 21
- Short and Associates, U.K. 22
- Ingenhoven Architekten, Germany 22
- Behnisch Architekten, Germany 23
- Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany 23
- Chapter 3 European Green Buildings Today: What Do They Know That We Don't? 25
- The U.K. Example 26
- Germany Goes Green(er) 30
- The French HQE System 34
- Green Building in Switzerland 37
- Green Building in Italy 38
- Green Building in The Netherlands 40
- Chapter 4 Green Buildings in the United Kingdom 43
- Beaufort Court, Hertfordshire 43
- 30 St. Mary Axe ( "The Gherkin" ), London 46
- 40 Grosvenor Place, London 47
- Brighton and Hove Central Library, Brighton 48
- Wessex Water Operations Centre, Bath 48
- New Street Square, London 49
- City Hall and Greater London Authority Headquarters, London 51
- The Inland Revenue Centre, Nottingham 51
- New Parliamentary Offices, Portcullis House, London 51
- Noho Square, London 52
- Plantation Place, London 52
- Stratford City, East London 53
- Corporate Campus for Sky Television, London 53
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London 53
- University of Coventry 55
- Natural Ventilation at Queens Building, DeMontfort University, Leicester 56
- The Helicon, London 57
- Wolseley Sustainable Building Centre, Leamington Spa 59
- The Green Office at Thorpe Park, Leeds 60
- Chapter 5 Sustainable Buildings in Germany 63
- Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt 63
- Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt 65
- European Investment Bank, Luxembourg 66
- Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover 68
- RWE Tower, Essen 68
- Ozeaneum, Stralsund 69
- Uptown Munich Office Tower, Munich 70
- Main Train Station, Stuttgart 70
- Therme, Bad Aibling 71
- Debis Tower at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 72
- Prisma Nürnberg 73
- New German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin 74
- GSW Building, Berlin 75
- Free University, Berlin 75
- Trumpf International, Ditzingen 76
- Chapter 6 Green Engineering in Europe 77
- European Systems Already in Use in the United States and Canada 79
- Transsolar and the New Science of Climate Engineering 79
- Schüco E-Squared Façade Concept 84
- Technology Overview 85
- What's on the Horizon? 92
- What Can We Use Today? 94
- Chapter 7 Eco-Towns 97
- Freiburg, Germany 97
- Linz, Austria 99
- Malmö, Sweden 99
- Vaxjö, Sweden 101
- Greenwich Millennium Village, U.K. 101
- The Carbon Challenge Project 102
- U.K. Eco-Towns Project 103
- Tallinn, Estonia 104
- Ecotowns Spread beyond Europe 105
- Chapter 8 Green Building in the Retail Sector 109
- Multi Development, The Netherlands 110
- Sonae Sierra, Portugal 112
- Shopping Center Technologies 114
- SES Development, Austria 115
- Lessons Learned 116
- Chapter 9 Looking to the Future 119
- The 2,000-Watt Society 119
- Tackling the Problem of Existing Buildings 122
- Life-Cycle Design Tools 123
- Soft Landings for Green Buildings 124
- EPCs and DECs 125
- Zero-Carbon Homes and Buildings 126
- Smart, Slim Buildings 130
- European Green Design Goes East 131
- Chapter 10 The Challenge and Promise of Green Buildings: Lessons from Europe 135
- Lessons Learned 135
- What Will We Need to Change to Use the European Experience? 139
- Where Should We Be Heading? 140
- Design And Development Firms And Projects 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597264761
- 1597264768
- 9781597264778
- 1597264776
- OCLC:
- 247274990
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