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Author Edwards, Brian W

Title Green Buildings Pay : Design, Productivity and Ecology
Edition 3rd ed
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Cover; Green Buildings Pay Design, productivity and ecology Third Edition; Copyright; Contents; List of image credits; Notes on contributors; Foreword by Brian Carter; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the third edition; Part One The Greening of The Property Industry; 1. How do green buildings pay?; 1.1 New evidence that green buildings produce wide economic and social benefits; 1.2 The procurement and marketability of green offices: experiences from Sheppard Robson and the British Council for Offices; 1.3 2009 BCO Guide to Specification
Part Two The Greening of Architectural Practice And Design2. Designing green buildings; 2.1 Designing green buildings: the impact of LCA, BREEAM and LEED; 2.2 How do architectural practices deal with sustainability? An international comparison; 3. Research and development for green buildings; 3.1 Developing the knowledge base for practice; 3.2 Environmental simulation tools for designers; 3.3 Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) and the responsibility of architects; 3.4 Occupancy satisfaction in different types of offices; 4. New approaches to the design of offices
4.1 Innovation, institutional change and the design of offices: green strategies and varying typologies4.2 Performance and productivity in the workplace; 4.3 Form, technology and energy: efficiency through architectural and mechanical means; 4.4 The importance of the façade; 4.5 The importance of roofs to sustainability; 4.6 The importance of the atrium; Part Three Case Studies of Green Office Design; Introduction to Part Three and a note on methodology and objectives; 5. The US and Canadian cases; 5.1 Hearst Tower, New York, by Foster + Partners
5.2 Bank of America Tower, New York, by Cook + Fox Architects5.3 New York Times Building by Renzo Piano with Fox & Fowle; 5.4 San Francisco Federal Building by Morphosis Architects; 5.5 Genzyme HQ, Cambridge, MA, by Behnisch Architects; 5.6 US Census Bureau, Maryland, by SOM; 5.7 NASA Sustainability Base by William McDonough + Partners; 5.8 Manitoba Hydro Place, Winnipeg, by KPMB Architects; 6. The UK cases; 6.1 Environmental Building, Watford, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; 6.2 BDP Office, Manchester, by BDP; 6.3 Wessex Water HQ, Bath, by Bennetts Associates
6.4 The Woodland Trust HQ, Grantham, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios7. Green office refurbishments; 7.1 New business realities; 7.2 West End House, London, by 3D Reid Architects; 7.3 Queen Elizabeth II Court, Winchester, by Bennetts Associates; 8. Danish green offices; 8.1 VKR Group HQ, near Copenhagen, by Hvidt & Mølgaard; 8.2 Rambøll HQ, Copenhagen, by Dissing+Weitling; Part Four Educational Buildings; 9. Sustainability and education: buildings as carriers of ecological messages; 9.1 Kroon Hall Forestry Building, Yale University, by Hopkins Architects
Summary This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced by architect, engineer and client today. Green Buildings Pay: Design, Productivity and Ecology examines, through a range of detailed case studies, how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. These cases are examined from three
Notes 9.2 Global Ecology Center, Stanford University, by EHDD
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Subject Architecture and energy conservation -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Commercial buildings -- Great Britain -- Case studies
College buildings -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Architecture and energy conservation
College buildings
Commercial buildings
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Naboni, Emanuele
ISBN 9781136179006
1136179003