Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer. This immensely practical book is packed with useful diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of the most recent case studies, including the education building, the Core, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. As well as exploring cutting edge developments in photovoltaics (PV) this revised edition also includes the latest data from the 2006 Carbon Trust report on wave and tide, and new material on the latest advances in bioenergy and marine technologies.Buildings are currently a major part of the carbon emissions problem. This book indicates how they may become part of the solution.
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Describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. This book also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies.
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Chapter 1 Climate change and sustainable energy: The 2005 Prince Philip Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts by Sir John Houghton CBE FRS; Chapter 2 Solar thermal power; Chapter 3 Low energy techniques for cooling; Chapter 4 Geothermal energy; Chapter 5 Wind power; Chapter 6 Photovoltaic cells; Chapter 7 Fuel cells; Chapter 8 Bioenergy; Chapter 9 Microgeneration and combined heat and power; Chapter 10 Small-scale hydro; Chapter 11 Wave and tide; Chapter 12 Prospects for the energy infrastructure; Chapter 13 Materials; Chapter 14 The photonic revolution; Chapter 15 Building integrated renewable energy: case studies; Chapter 16 Sustainability on a knife edge;
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Of the first edition: 'An absorbing study of the technology available for low energy buildings.'Permaculture Magazine'...the book is well written and illustrated. There are copious graphs, diagrams and photographs. The author backs up his arguments with statistics.'Northeast Sun'This book is a useful guide to a comprehensive range of established and developing technologies.'EcoTech, Sustainable Architecture Today
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ISBN
9780750683005
Publisert
2007-02-19
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Architectural Press
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
189 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
196

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