Sustainability at the Cutting Edge

Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings

Peter F. Smith

180 pages, parution le 23/03/2007 (2^eme édition)

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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer. This immensely practical book is packed with useful diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of the most recent case studies, including the education building, the Core, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. As well as exploring cutting edge developments in photovoltaics (PV) this revised edition also includes the latest data from the 2006 Carbon Trust report on wave and tide, and new material on the latest advances in bioenergy and marine technologies. Buildings are currently a major part of the carbon emissions problem. This book indicates how they may become part of the solution.

L'auteur - Peter F. Smith

Peter Smith, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Solar Thermal Power
Low energy techniques for cooling
Geothermal energy
Wind Power
Photovoltaic cells
Fuel cells
Biogas
Micro-Power
Small-scale hydro
Wave and tide
Prospects for the energy infrastructure
Materials
The photonic revolution
Building integrated renewable energy: case studies
Sustainability on a knife edge

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Peter F. Smith
Parution	23/03/2007
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	180
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	543g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780750683005
ISBN13	978-0-7506-8300-5