The Power of Existing Buildings

The Power of Existing Buildings
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Publisher : Island Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781642830507
ISBN-13 : 164283050X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Power of Existing Buildings by : Robert Sroufe

Download or read book The Power of Existing Buildings written by Robert Sroufe and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition of the significant contribution of buildings to climate change, the idea of building green has become increasingly popular. But is it enough? If an energy-efficient building is new construction, it may take 10 to 80 years to overcome the climate change impacts of the building process. New buildings are sexy, but few realize the value in existing buildings and how easy it is to get to “zero energy” or low-energy consumption through deep energy retrofits. Existing buildings can and should be retrofit to reduce environmental impacts that contribute to climate change, while improving human health and productivity for building occupants. In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals. The Power of Existing Buildings helps decision-makers move beyond incremental changes to holistic, results-oriented solutions.

Sustainable Preservation

Sustainable Preservation
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780470882153
ISBN-13 : 0470882158
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sustainable Preservation by : Jean Carroon

Download or read book Sustainable Preservation written by Jean Carroon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, stormwater 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.

Greening Existing Buildings

Greening Existing Buildings
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822036513083
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Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Greening Existing Buildings by : Jerry Yudelson

Download or read book Greening Existing Buildings written by Jerry Yudelson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical reference for building owners, developers, and facility managers on how to green existing buildings on conventional budgets, taking them step-by-step through each phase of project design, construction, and operations.

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings
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Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages : 689
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ISBN-10 : 9780128203842
ISBN-13 : 0128203846
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings by : Reza Mokarram Aydenlou

Download or read book Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings written by Reza Mokarram Aydenlou and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings covers various structures, effective parameters in seismic improvement, and other factors in seismic loading in eight applied chapters with descriptive classification. The book offers guidance for a seismic rehabilitation project based on the interpretation of publications FEMA and Iranian seismic rehabilitation regulations no.360 . It includes real examples of completed and approved projects to stabilize the seismic improvement issues of existing buildings. Six perfectly executed examples, with complete refinement details, such as modeling, step-by-step improvement studies, and executive plans and seismic enhancement images are included. The book also explains the classification of non-structural element and how to carry out it's seismic reconstruction studies and in one of the chapters, construction and soil improvement methods are discussed along with a practical example.The concepts of seismic rehabilitation in this book are presented with an Info-graphic structure that better fixes the concepts in the minds of readers so that when they face a new project, they have a more practical use of the content - Provides a fully functional way to evaluate, model and present details of a seismic rehabilitation plan for a building - Presents real seismic refurbishment models and step-by-step methods for providing examples (including images, tables and charts)

A Pattern Language

A Pattern Language
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1216
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ISBN-10 : 9780190050351
ISBN-13 : 0190050357
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Pattern Language by : Christopher Alexander

Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Revolutionary Power

Revolutionary Power
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Publisher : Island Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781642830675
ISBN-13 : 1642830674
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Revolutionary Power by : Shalanda Baker

Download or read book Revolutionary Power written by Shalanda Baker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

The World's Greenest Buildings

The World's Greenest Buildings
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780415606295
ISBN-13 : 0415606292
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The World's Greenest Buildings by : Jerry Yudelson

Download or read book The World's Greenest Buildings written by Jerry Yudelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first comparison of green building performance, using cost and energy use data that has been verified by independent third parties.