Author(s): William McLean, Pete Silver

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE | RIBA | DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction, and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy, energy use and relative sustainability. This book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction, material properties, environmental performance of buildings and more. Inspirational, informative and highly illustrated, it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to understand the principles and technologies by which we heat, cool, moderate and mitigate. Includes coverage on solar geometry, acoustics, climatic envelope, thermal mass, insulation, computational fluid dynamics, bio-polymer, paper construction, hempcrete, mycelium biofabrication, bamboo construction, earthen architecture, fabric formwork, pneumatic structures, tensegrity structures, CLT, bio-remediation, heat pumps, passive solar heating and more.