Resilient Building Retrofits (eBook, PDF)

Combating the Climate Crisis
Redaktion: Sayce, Sarah; Organ, Samantha; Armstrong, Gillian; Wilkinson, Sara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency. It is about the why, how and who should take the lead in revolutionising buildings in the face of serious climate and social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000647242
• Artikelnr.: 64998119

Autorenporträt

Sarah Sayce was Professor of Sustainable Real Estate at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and Visiting Professor the Royal Agricultural University, UK. For many years she headed the School of Surveying and Planning at Kingston University, UK. She recently worked on two EU funded projects in the field of energy efficiency and property values and is the co-author of Developing Property Sustainably, and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate, both published by Routledge. Sara Wilkinson is a Professor in the School of Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on sustainability and adaptation in the built environment, user satisfaction, retrofit of green roofs and conceptual understanding of sustainability. Sara is on the editorial board of five international refereed journals and is the co-author of Developing Property Sustainably, and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate, both published by Routledge. Gill Armstrong is a chartered architectural technologist and a UK registered architect. Gill is a post-doctoral researcher at University Technology Sydney. Her research crosses architecture, surveying, and planning disciplines and focuses on building regulation, and sustainable design and management of existing buildings. Gill has also published on built environment pedagogies & crisis narratives in education, having taught university built environment programs in Australia & the UK. Samantha Organ is a chartered surveyor leading nationally on sustainability for the built estate for Europe's largest conservation charity, the National Trust. She is the MSc Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Building Surveying at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research focuses primarily on sustainability in the built environment. Sam has written numerous publications for a range of audiences and is a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed academic journals. She won the RICS Matrics Young Building Surveyor of the Year in 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Why: Challenge and a need to change 1. The Climate Crisis: why
it matters for the built environment 2. The philosophy and definition of
retrofitting for resilience 3. An inadequate building stock 4.
Understanding Vacancy in the office stock Part 2: The What: Exploring
solutions 5. A governance response: from coercion to persuasion to
embracing diversity? 6. Financing Retrofits 7. Low Tech vs High
Technological solutions for a pandemic adaptable Society 8. Repurposing and
adaptation 9. Heritage: learning from and preserving the past Part 3:
Conclusions, the future, and a manifesto for Change 10. Conclusions and a
Manifesto to Retrofit for the Future