Green building trends : Europe / Jerry Yudelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yudelson, Jerry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable buildings--Europe--Design and construction.

Sustainable buildings.

Buildings--Energy conservation--Europe.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2009.

Summary:

In clear, jargon-free prose, Green Building Trends: Europe provides profiles of progress in the journey towards sustainability, describes the current regulatory and business climates, and predicts what the near future may bring. Jerry Yudelson also provides a primer on new technologies, systems, and regulatory approaches in Western Europe that can be adopted in North America, including building-integrated solar technologies, radiant heating and cooling systems, dynamic façades that provide natural ventilation, innovative methods for combining climate control and water features in larger buildings, zero-netenergy homes built like Thermos bottles, and strict government timetables for achieving zero-carbon buildings. Green Building Trends: Europe is an essential resource for anyone interested in the latest developments in this rapidly growing field.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Architecture and the Human Condition, David Cook, Behnisch Architekten

Introduction: European Green Buildings in Context

Driving Forces in Europe

Driving Forces in the United States and Canada

Impressions from Designers

Ch. 1: The PassivHaus Concept and European Residential Design

What's a PassivHaus?

What Can We Learn from the PassivHaus Approach

Ch. 2: European Design Innovators

Foster + Partners, U.K.

David Lloyd Jones and Studio E, U.K.

Thomas Herzog and Partners, Germany

White Design, U.K.

Bennetts Associates Architects, U.K.

Hopkins Architects, U.K.

Make Architects, U.K.

Arup Associates, U.K.

Short and Associates, U.K.

Ingenhoven Architeckten, Germany

Behnisch Architekten, Germany

Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany

Ch. 3: European Green Buildings Today: What Do They Know That We Don't?

The U.K. Example

Germany Goes Green(er)

The French HQE System

Green Building in Switzerland

Green Building in Italy

Green Building in The Netherlands

Ch. 4: Green Buildings in the United Kingdom

Beaufort Cort, Hertfordshire

30 St. Mary Axe ("The Gherkin"), London

40 Grosvenor Place, London

Brighton and Hove Central Library, Brighton

Wessex Water Operations Centre, Bath

New Street Square, London

City Hall and Greater London Authority Headquarters, London

The Inland Revenue Centre, Nottingham

New Parliamentary Offices, Portcullis House, London

Noho Square, London

Plantation Place, London

Stratford City, East London

Corporate Campus for Sky Television, London

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London

University of Coventry

Natural Ventilation at Queens Building, Demontfort University, Leicester

The Helicon, London.

Wolseley Sustainable Building Centre, Leamington Spa

The Green Office at Thorpe Park, Leeds

Ch. 5: Sustainable Buildings in Germany

Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt

Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt

European Investment Bank, Luxembourg

Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover

RWE Tower, Essen

Ozeaneum, Stralsund

Uptown Munich Office Tower, Munich

Main Train Station, Stuttgart

Therme, Bad Aibling

Debis Tower at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

Prisma Nürnberg

New German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin

GSW Building, Berlin

Free University, Berlin

Trumpf International, Ditzingen

Ch. 6 Green Engineering in Europe

European Systems Already in Use in the United States and Canada

Transsolar and the New Science of Climate Engineering

Schüco E-Squared Façade Concept

Technology Overview

What's On the Horizon?

What Can We Use Today?

Ch. 7: Eco-Towns

Freiburg, Germany

Linz, Austria

Malmö, Sweden

Vaxjö, Sweden

Greenwich Millennium Village, U.K.

The Carbon Challenge Project

U.K. Eco-Towns Project

Tallinn, Estonia

Ecotowns Spread Beyond Europe

Ch. 8: Green Building in the Retail Sector

Multi Development, The Netherlands

Sonae Sierra, Portugal

Shopping Center Technologies

SES Development, Austria

Lessons Learned

Ch. 9: Looking to the Future

The 2,000-Watt Society

Tackling the Problem of Existing Buildings

Life-Cycle Design Tools

Soft Landings for Green Buildings

EPCs and DECs

Zero-Carbon Homes and Buildings

Smart, Slim Buildings

European Green Design Goes East

Ch. 10: The Challenge and Promise of Green Buildings: Lessons from Europe

What Will We Need to Change to Use the European Experience?

Where Should We Be Heading?

Design and Development Firms and Projects

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781610911344

1610911342

OCLC:

750192356