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Sustainable retrofit and facilities management / Paul Appleby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Appleby, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction.
- Buildings.
- Sustainable buildings.
- Buildings--Energy conservation.
- Architecture and energy conservation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (682 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per cent reduction by 2050, when twenty-eight million buildings that currently exist will still be standing; this represents a challenge to improve the energy efficiency of more than one building per minute between now and 2050! This is a problem that needs tackling worldwide and is a challenge to both the refurbishment sector of the global construction industry and to those who own and operate existing buildings.Sustainable Retrofit and
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Background
- pt. 2. Strategy
- pt. 3. Sustainable retrofit
- pt. 4. Sustainable facilities management.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-12176-1
- 0-203-07573-0
- 1-299-27960-0
- 1-135-12177-X
- 9780203075739
- OCLC:
- 830161042
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