Название: Sustainable Renovation: Strategies for Commercial Building Systems and Envelope
Автор: Lisa Gelfand, Chris Duncan
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 305
Размер: 107.9 Mb
Язык: English
The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for both Historic and modern existing buildings
This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance of the built environment. Great examples of existing building upgrades are examined, illustrating how to do sustainable renovations, along with current design approaches for radically improving the functionality of existing prewar, postwar, and late modern buildings. "Sustainable Renovation" saves its key focus for institutional and commercial buildings, but discusses the challenges they pose within a global scope that encompasses all building practices. Some of the