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Sustainable refurbishment / Sunil Shah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Sunil, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction.
- Buildings.
- Green technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This guide to green 'retro-fitting' for corporate real estate, facility managers and occupiers struggling to reduce their building's carbon footprint will help in the planning and management of a sustainable refurbishment programme. Facilities managers have a key role in improving and maintaining a building's sustainability credentials over its whole life - through benchmarking and developing improvement strategies, energy efficiency measures and installation of low carbon technologies, as well as through waste minimisation and appropriate material use. The first part of the book gives
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction to building refurbishment
- pt. 2. Managing refurbishment as a process
- pt. 3. Low-carbon technologies and materials
- pt. 4. Environmental areas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613854902
- 9781118387863
- 1118387864
- 9781283542456
- 1283542455
- 9781118387894
- 1118387899
- 9781118387917
- 1118387910
- OCLC:
- 802261477
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