Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Homes: A Technical Guide for New Build

Dr Carol Williams

March 2010
Code: 70194
ISBN: 9781859463536
176 pp
Paperback
£30.00

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The built environment has the potential to have a major impact on biodiversity, not least with the increasingly demanding requirements to design more energy efficient and airtight buildings, leaving less space for species to inhabit. Up until the publication of this book, there was no one place where architects, developers, consultant ecologists, and all those involved in low and zero carbon buildings, could find out about how to incorporate provision for biodiversity within their developments.

In this groundbreaking book, author Dr Carol Williams has specially commissioned architects to produce some much needed model designs and practical guidance for the industry. The book also provides a useful summary of all the legislation.