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Green buildings pay : design, productivity and ecology.

Contributor(s): Edwards, Brian, 1944- [editor of compilation] | Naboni, Emanuele [editor of compilation]Publisher: London : Routledge, 2013Edition: Third edition / Brian W. Edwards and Emanuele NaboniDescription: 272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 25489ISBN: 9780415685344 (hbk.) :; 9780415685351 (pbk.) :; 9780203082386 (ebook) :Subject(s): Architecture and history | Commercial buildings -- Great Britain -- Case studies | College buildings -- Great Britain -- Case studiesDDC classification: 720.47

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This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced by architect, engineer and client today.

Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology examines, through a range of detailed case studies, how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. These cases are examined from three main perspectives: that of the architect, the client and the user. Completely revised with all new chapters, cases, sections and introductory material the third edition presents:

over 20 new researched case studies drawn from the UK, Europe and the USA, written in collaboration with the architects, engineers, clients and user groups examples of office and educational buildings of high sustainable and high architectural quality an exploration of the architectural innovations that have been driven by environmental thinking, such as the new approaches to the design of building facades, roofs, and atria cases which demonstrate current practice in the area of energy/eco-retrofits of existing buildings documentation of the benefit impact assessment schemes such as LEED and BREEAM have had upon client expectations and on design approaches over the past decade beautiful full color illustrations throughout.

In the fast evolving arena of green building, the book shows how architects are reshaping their practices to deal with ever more demanding energy standards and better informed users and corporate clients.

Previous edition: London: Spon Press, 2003.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements Foreword Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The Greening of the Property Industry
  • 1 How Do Green Buildings Pay?
  • Part 2 The Greening of Architectural Practice
  • 2 Designing Green Buildings
  • 3 Research and Development for Green Buildings
  • 4 Green Building Design and the Changing Property Industry
  • Part 3 Case Studies
  • 5 The USA and Canadian Cases
  • 6 The UK Cases
  • 7 Green Office Refurbishments
  • 8 The Danish Office Cases
  • Part 4 Educational Buildings
  • 9 Sustainability and Education
  • Part 5 Green Projects in Emerging Economies
  • 10 Green Offices in Emerging Economies
  • Part 6 Conclusions
  • 11 The Value of 'Green' to Business and Education

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