Sustainable buildings / Elisabeth Green, Tristram Hope and Alan Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Elisabeth, author.

Hope, Tristram, author.

Yates, Alan, author.

Series:

Delivering sustainable infrastructure.

Delivering sustainable infrastructure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable buildings.

Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : ICE Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

'Sustainable Buildings' is an indispensable handbook that combines a summary of good practice and sources of information helpful to practitioners involved in the design and procurement of buildings. This book illustrates the need for inter-disciplinary integration and an understanding of environmental physics as early as possible in the design process in order to deliver high-quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe.

Contents:

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Asking the right questions, at the right time

About the series editors

Background and purpose

This book

Book structure

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1.1. Buildings' role and impacts

Box 1.1

Box 1.2

Figure 1.1

1.2. The sustainability challenge

Box 1.3

Figure 1.2

Box 1.4

Figure 1.3

1.3. Sustainability in buildings - the way forward

Figure 1.4

1.4. Beyond the building

1.5. The way forward - developing good practice for sustainable buildings

Box 1.5

References

Ainger CM and Fenner RA (2014)

British Geological Survey (2014)

British Property Federation (2013)

Cascio J (2010)

United Nations (1987)

US Department of Energy (2014)

US EPA (Environment Protection Agency) and US CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) (2014)

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2.1. Introduction

2.2. Fundamental principles

2.3. Whole-life planning

2.3.1 Life-cycle assessment and whole-life costing

Box 2.1

2.3.2 Design for deconstruction

Figure 2.1

Figure 2.2

2.4. Understanding the needs and context

2.4.1 Finite resources - living within limits

Figure 2.3

Figure 2.4

2.4.2 Maximising benefits from the local built environment and vernacular solutions

2.4.3 Consideration of context

Box 2.2

Figure 2.5

2.4.4 Mitigation and adaptation

2.5. Managing the process well

2.5.1 Setting common goals

2.5.2 Adopt a 'service', not 'product', business model

2.5.3 Adopt a holistic approach

2.5.4 Design gateways

2.6. Benefits of an innovative approach

Box 2.3

Figure 2.6

2.6.1 Lateral thinking

2.6.2 New skills and competencies

2.6.3 Technical innovation

2.6.4 Think longer term

2.6.5 Personal reference frameworks

2.6.6 Challenging orthodoxy: questioning the brief

2.7. Integrated design and collaborative working.

2.7.1 Complex systems - interdependence of different parties

2.7.2 Collaboration and choice of contract

2.7.3 Interdisciplinary integration

BRE Global (2014)

BSI (British Standards Institution) (2009)

CIC (Construction Industry Council) (2007)

Constructing Excellence (2014)

Construction Task Force (1998)

De Bono E (1990)

Desai P and King P (2006)

G8 Environment Ministers Meeting (2008)

Box 2.4

Goldsmith E, Prescott-Allen R, Allaby M, Davoll J and Lawrence S (1972)

Hammond G and Jones C (2011)

Latham M (1994)

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3.1. Introduction

3.2. Shelter and security

3.2.1 Primitive and vernacular origins

3.2.2 Lessons to learn from primitive and vernacular architecture

3.3. Behaviour, lifestyle and adaptation

3.3.1 The hierarchy of needs

3.3.2 Occupant interaction

Figure 3.1

3.3.3 Mitigation and adaptation

3.4. Orientation, solar gain and shading

3.4.1 Façade configuration

3.4.2 Solar geometry

3.4.3 Sun-path diagrams and solar intensity

3.4.4 Solar gain and transmissivity of glass

3.4.5 Shading

3.4.6 Fixed and moveable shading

3.4.7 Positioning

3.5. Heating, cooling and insulation

3.5.1 Conductive heat loss

3.5.2 Ventilation heat loss

3.5.3 Heat loss coefficient

3.5.4 Degree-days, monthly and annual heat consumption

3.5.5 Useful heat and boiler efficiency

3.5.6 Internal gains and solar gains

3.5.7 Thermal mass

Box 3.1

3.5.8 Heat emitters

3.5.9 Cooling - the absorbing and discharging of energy

3.5.10 The nature of air, and psychrometry

Box 3.2

Figure 3.2

3.5.11 Thermal labyrinths and earth tubes

3.6. Natural ventilation

3.6.1 Background

Box 3.3

Figure 3.3

3.6.2 Can mechanical ventilation be avoided?.

3.6.3 The driving forces of natural ventilation

Table 3.1

3.6.4 Winter ventilation

Figure 3.4

Figure 3.5

3.6.5 Summer ventilation

Figure 3.6

Figure 3.7

Table 3.2

3.6.6 Advanced ventilation techniques

3.6.7 Vertical ducts and solar chimneys

Figure 3.8

3.6.8 Night-time ventilation to provide cooling

Figure 3.9

3.6.9 Hybrid natural/mechanical systems

Figure 3.10

3.7. Daylighting

3.7.1 Background

3.7.2 Energy

3.7.3 Glazed façades

3.7.4 Direct and indirect natural light

3.7.5 Room proportions and fenestration ratio

3.7.6 Where not to use natural daylight

Figure 3.11

3.7.7 Daylight linking

Figure 3.12

Figure 3.13

Box 3.4

Baker N and Steemers K (2002)

Cotterell J and Dadeby A (2012)

Maslow AH (1943)

Further reading

Baker N (2009)

Baker N and Steemers K (1999)

CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) (2014)

Humphreys MA (1976)

Szokolay SV (2014)

Tregenza P and Loe D (1998)

Tregenza P and Wilson M (2011)

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4.1. Introduction

4.2. How the sustainability performance of buildings is affected by their wider urban context

4.2.1 Introduction

4.2.2 Changing behaviour of people within their urban space

Box 4.1

Figure 4.1

Box 4.2

Box 4.3

Figure 4.2

4.2.3 What is the collective impact of adapting occupant behaviour on a city scale?

4.3. Energy reduction through designing to encourage adaptive behaviour

4.3.1 Introduction

Table 4.1

4.3.2 Consideration of occupant behaviour to share energy loads

4.3.3 Designing for occupancy

Box 4.4

Figure 4.3

4.3.3.2 Energy efficiency through informed occupants

4.4. Summary: collective impact on sustainable buildings

Box 4.5

Figure 4.4

Ainger C and Fenner RA (2014).

Arup and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (2011)

Box 4.6

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (2013a)

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (2013b)

Duggan J (2013)

Government of Japan (1997)

Grow NYC (2014)

King's Cross Skip Garden (2014)

Kraljevic A (2011)

Lewis M (2007)

NCE (New Civil Engineer) (2012)

UBT (Useable Buildings Trust) and BSRIA (2009)

UN Habitat (2010)

United Nations (2012)

PWMI (Plastic Waste Management Institute, Japan) (2012)

UKGBC (UK Green Building Council) (2013)

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5.1. Introduction

5.2. Workstages

5.2.1 What are workstages and why are they needed?

5.2.2 Comparison of workstages

5.3. Form of contract

5.3.1 The importance of collaboration

Box 5.1

5.3.2 The development of the NEC suite of contracts

5.4. Range of activities

5.4.1 The CIC scope of services

Figure 5.1

5.5. Activities in support of sustainability

Box 5.2

Table 5.2

Box 5.3

CIC (2011)

NEC3 (2013)

RIBA (2011)

RIBA (2013)

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6.1. Introduction

6.2. Why measure?

6.3. Setting targets

Box 6.1

Box 6.2

Figure 6.1

6.4. The art of measurement

6.4.1 Who needs to measure?

6.4.2 What to measure?

6.4.3 When to measure?

6.4.4 What to evaluate

6.4.5 Actual versus predicted performance

Box 6.3

6.5. The principles of credible building performance evaluation methods

6.5.1 Quantification

6.5.2 Independence and credibility

Box 6.4

6.5.3 Evidence base

6.5.4 Comparability

6.6. Types of evaluation tools

6.6.1 Whole-building evaluation methods

Box 6.5

6.6.2 Discrete impact evaluation methods

6.6.3 International, regional and national standards

Box 6.6

6.6.5 Regulatory compliance tools

6.6.6 Design tools.

6.6.7 Post-occupancy tools and processes

6.7. Certification

6.8. The tools

Figure 6.2

6.9. Reporting performance

Box 6.7

BSI (British Standards Institution) (2007)

BSI (2009)

BSI (2010)

BSI (2011)

BSI (2012)

BSRIA (2014a)

BSRIA (2014b)

CIRIA (2014)

Commission for a Sustainable London (2012)

European Commission (2002)

Greenhouse Gas Protocol (2013)

ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) (2006a)

ISO (2006b)

Millar M (1999)

Olsson D, Heincke C and Nilsson C (2012)

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7.1. Introduction

7.2. The importance of information exchange

7.3. Delivering better outcomes

7.4. Improving existing buildings

7.5. Federated models

7.6. Enhanced early-stage optioneering

Figure 7.1

7.7. Visualisation and stakeholder engagement

7.8. Building performance modelling

7.9. Embodied carbon data as a BIM 'dimension'

Figure 7.2

7.10. Reduced waste

7.11. Design for manufacture and assembly

7.12. Soft Landings

7.13. Integrated asset information management

7.14. Performance optimisation

7.15. Feedback and learning

7.16. Decommissioning and recycling

7.17. Summary

Figure 7.3

BIM Task Group (2014)

BSI (2013)

BSI (2014)

Box 7.1

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8.1. Introduction

8.2. Drivers for change in the building sector

8.2.1 Resilience and adaptability - energy consumption and its impact on climate change

8.2.2 The design versus performance gap

8.2.3 Risks arising from higher building performance

8.2.4 The growth of community infrastructure solutions

8.3. Changes that will influence building evaluation in the future.

8.3.1 Building fabric solutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2015).

ISBN:

0-7277-5807-1

1-5231-0556-9

OCLC:

954548526