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Sustainable preservation : greening existing buildings / Jean Carroon

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2010Description: xiv, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, plans ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780470169117
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 2542.36 .C37 2010
Contents:
1. Buildings and Environmental Stewardship - Understanding the Issues -- 2. Buildings and Sustainable Development - Understanding the Goals -- 3. Tools, Guidelines, and Process - Balancing the Goals -- 4. Water and Site -- 5. Energy - Not Only Issue But -- 6. Indoor Health - Light, Air and Health -- 7. Materials and Resources - Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle -- 8. Best Practices - Operations, Maintenance, and Change -- 9. Houses -- 10. The Recent Past.
Summary: Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make—from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions. In addition, Sustainable Preservation presents 50 case studies of projects—schools, houses, offices, stores, museums, and government buildings—that set new standards for holistic approaches to adaptive reuse and sustainability. The author covers design issues, from building location to lighting systems, renewable power options, storm water handling, and building envelope protection and integrity. The book also reviews operational issues, including materials choices for low lifetime maintenance, green housekeeping, and indoor air quality.
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GC NA 2542.35 .P54 1978 Townframe : environments for adaptive housing / GC NA 2542.35 .W45 1981 Gentle architecture / GC NA 2542.36 .B76 2011 Eco-friendly architecture / GC NA 2542.36 .C37 2010 Sustainable preservation : greening existing buildings / GC NA 2542.36 .D87 2009 New green homes / GC NA 2542.36 .E26 2013 Eco-architecture / GC NA 2542.36 .H46 2012 c.1 Becoming a green building professional /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Buildings and Environmental Stewardship - Understanding the Issues -- 2. Buildings and Sustainable Development - Understanding the Goals -- 3. Tools, Guidelines, and Process - Balancing the Goals -- 4. Water and Site -- 5. Energy - Not Only Issue But -- 6. Indoor Health - Light, Air and Health -- 7. Materials and Resources - Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle -- 8. Best Practices - Operations, Maintenance, and Change -- 9. Houses -- 10. The Recent Past.

Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make—from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions. In addition, Sustainable Preservation presents 50 case studies of projects—schools, houses, offices, stores, museums, and government buildings—that set new standards for holistic approaches to adaptive reuse and sustainability. The author covers design issues, from building location to lighting systems, renewable power options, storm water handling, and building envelope protection and integrity. The book also reviews operational issues, including materials choices for low lifetime maintenance, green housekeeping, and indoor air quality.

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