Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture,Engineering,and Environment

Book Description
An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering. Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient. 180 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations.


Book Info
An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering. Examines also the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century.


About the Author
Dean Hawkes is professor of architectural design and Wayne Forster is a lecturer at Cardiff University.


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"This book, produced in association with Arup, the largest firm of consulting engineers in the world, explores the close relationship between architecture and engineering." "Energy Efficient Buildings addresses the ways in which architects and engineers collaborate in the process of environmental control in buildings. From the beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, they began to work together to achieve new standards of comfort within buildings and, as a consequence, to bring about a fundamental transformation in the nature of architecture. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the debate on the vulnerability of the global environment has given a new significance to the environmental agenda in architecture." The authors' introduction traces the historical development of the environmental strand of architectural theory and practice, establishing the background for twenty critical studies of international contemporary buildings, each built in association with Arup. Connecting the environmental function of architecture to the wider historical and theoretical discourse, Energy Efficent Buildings will appeal to practitioners within the fields of architecture, environmental design, and engineering, as well as to those with an interest in these areas.


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