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Sustainable retrofits : post-war residential towers in Britain / Asterios Agkathidis and Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez.
Fine Arts Library NA7863.G7 A39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agkathidis, Asterios, 1974- author.
- Urbano Gutiérrez, Rosa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High-rise apartment buildings--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.
- High-rise apartment buildings.
- Buildings--Retrofitting--Great Britain.
- Buildings.
- Sustainable architecture.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Public housing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Public housing.
- Buildings--Retrofitting.
- High-rise apartment buildings--Environmental aspects.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Buildings--Retrofitting.
- High-rise apartment buildings--Environmental aspects.
- Public housing.
- Sustainable architecture.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 290 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- Presenting the state-of-the-art in sustainable retrofits in post war residential towers, this book captures and re-informs the current intense refurbishing process that is taking place in Britain, which is part of a global phenomenon happening all over the world, as cities upgrade their building stock in an attempt to comply with governmental emission reduction targets. The authors present inspections of 20 sustainably retrofitted social housing towers, analysing their aesthetic and technical modifications, as well as the shifts occurring in their social structure. The authors use over 200 full colour plans, elevations, photographs, maps and illustrations to beautifully support the statistical and analytical information collected. Finally they include interviews with some of the architects who designed the retrofits, residents and key stakeholders to inform the conclusions.
- Contents:
- Public high-rise blocks in Britain : a brief review of their historic context
- Carbon emissions reduction: the need for sustainable retrofits
- Types and techniques : a retrofit manual
- Tower block retrofits
- Conversations with the architects
- Final discussion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138689886
- 1138689882
- 9781138689893
- 1138689890
- OCLC:
- 982654155
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