Jerry Yudelson, Ulf Meyer

The World's Greenest Buildings

Promise Versus Performance in Sustainable Design

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first comparison of green building performance, using cost and energy use data that has been verified by independent third parties.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 218mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9780415606295
• ISBN-10: 0415606292
• Artikelnr.: 30976476

Autorenporträt

Jerry Yudelson is principal of Yudelson Associates, a sustainable design, research and consulting firm located in Tucson, Arizona, www.greenbuildconsult.com and cofounder of the largest green building trade show in the US, Greenbuild. The U.S. Green Building Council named him in 2011 to the inaugural class of 34 LEED Fellows, a singular honor.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Foreword Introduction: Form Follows Performance Part 1. Green Building Performance Challenges 1. Green Buildings and the Carbon Challenge 2. The Issue of Building Performance 3. Worldwide Green Building Rating Systems 4. The Business Case for High-Performance Green Buildings 5. Integrated Sustainable Design for High-Performance Buildings Part 2. Case Studies 6. Introduction to the Case Studies 7. Case Studies (cases from Canada
Ireland
The Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Australia
China
India
Japan
Singapore
Taiwan
Chile
USA
France
Finland
Germany) 8. Lessons from the Case Studies Part 3. Looking Ahead 9. Projects to Watch 10.Sustainable Cities: (How) Can Sustainable Urban Development Be Quantified? 11. Afterword: A Challenge to Building Teams Appendices: A. Bibliography B. Interviews C. English/Metric Terminology