Sustainable Renovation
By:Lisa Gelfand,Chris Duncan
Published on 2011-11-18 by John Wiley & Sons
The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations forboth Historic and modern existing buildings This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how thesustainable renovation of existing buildings presents greatopportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performanceof the built environment. Great examples of existing buildingupgrades are examined, illustrating how to do sustainablerenovations, along with current design approaches for radicallyimproving the functionality of existing prewar, postwar, and latemodern buildings. Sustainable Renovation saves its key focusfor institutional and commercial buildings, but discusses thechallenges they pose within a global scope that encompasses allbuilding practices. Some of the discussions in this bookinclude: The significance of energy and resource demands by the buildingsector and the urgency of reducing loads in existing buildings Management, design, and construction approaches to achieve majormodernization in occupied buildings International case studies that focus on methods and benefits ofsuccessful sustainable transformations of existing buildingperformance Repurposing buildings to preserve style and add performanceremains a work in progress as designers and builders discover newmethods for improving sustainable practices and standards. Withincremental modernization and operations strategies available forimmediate implementation, this book demonstrates the different waysof thinking necessary when considering and attempting theintegration of sustainable concepts into existingbuildings—and enables readers to rethink the world that'sbuilt around them.
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