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Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think
George Baird
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Paperback. Presents 30 sustainable buildings from around the globe and examines how they work in practice, from the point of view of the people who use them. This book considers common issues and the lessons that can be learnt for future sustainable building design. Num Pages: 352 pages, 73 black & white tables, 265 colour illustrations, 61 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AMCR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 276 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored. This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable buildings in the world, in terms of the users' perceived comfort, health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings, interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The ... Read more
Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored. This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable buildings in the world, in terms of the users' perceived comfort, health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings, interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1289g
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415399326
SKU
V9780415399326
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Ref
99-1
About George Baird
George Baird is a Professor of Building Science at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington. A Fellow of the UK's Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and New Zealand's Institution of Professional Engineers, he is an experienced researcher and writer and has been involved in the teaching of architects and building scientists for 40 years.
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