'What Colour is your Building?' will equip designers, building owners, occupiers, planners and policy makers with the tools and knowledge they will need to make decisions early on about where the big impacts will be in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.
'What Colour is your Building?' will equip designers, building owners, occupiers, planners and policy makers with the tools and knowledge they will need to make decisions early on about where the big impacts will be in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.
Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint…
"What Colour Is Your Building is the result of many years' analysis and design of low energy buildings. The first part of the book focuses on how to measure and benchmark CO2 emissions due to the operating, embodied and transport energy consumption associated with commercial bui…
Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint…
Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded 'pop-ups' and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic architecture that is subtly suggesting how we could live, work and play more harmo…
"This book examines a range of state-of-the-art non-domestic retrofit projects. Its chapters explore common challenges, offer practical solutions and provide a clarion-call to architects and clients for better, smarter retrofit. Twelve case studies focus as much on the transform…
