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Integrating Building Performance with Design

An Architecture Student’s Guidebook
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Integrating Building Performance with Design emphasises the critical need to consider building performance from the outset of architectural design. It provides practical tools, exercises, and real-world examples, supported by over 100 full-colour images, covering essential topics such as site selection, solar orientation, thermal comfort, building enclosures, daylighting, passive and active heating and cooling, indoor air quality, and water management.
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This book is ideal for architects, architecture students, and design professionals who want to incorporate sustainable and performance-based strategies into their building projects.

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The book offers you simple tools and rules-of-thumb, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 200 images to help you with your work.

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Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process.

The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects, illustrated by more than 100 full-colour images to help you with your work.

Topics include site, solar orientation, thermal comfort, building enclosure, daylighting, passive heating and cooling, active heating and cooling, indoor air quality, stormwater, and rainwater harvesting.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138930933

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 August 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 6 Tables, color; 73 Line drawings, color; 126 Halftones, color; 199 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 580g

Pages: 220

About the Author

Elizabeth J. Grant is an associate professor at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. She is a registered architect and the Associate Director of the Center for High Performance Environments. Her interests include environmentally sensitive design, building enclosures, and building systems integration.

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