Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for sustainable buildings
Sue Roaf
July 2004
Code: 33068
ISBN: 1 85946 118 2
978 1 85946 118 1
544 pp
Hardback
£40.00
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Everyone subscribes to "sustainability", so how do we judge one building’s performance against another? What
are the criteria and what is measurable? And how do we evaluate what are often over-optimistic and
unsubstantiated claims relating to sustainable design? The answer is via a myriad of quantification procedures
that the professional is only just becoming familiar with. This book is invaluable in that it brings together
these procedures and establishes a set of common indicators that begin to define the elusive concept of
sustainability. All too often sustainability is skin deep, an imagery based on green roofs and slatted timber
but as Sue Roaf explains quite simply in her introduction; "Sustainable buildings are not about fashion and
style: they are about performance, resilience and reliability"
Peter Clegg - Fielden Bradley Clegg.
Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings describes how to measure and achieve sustainability in
construction. It contains a palette of issues, indicators and benchmarks, techniques, methods and tools –
assembled from practice in the UK and around the world – that will give designers, developers and occupants an
overview and understanding of the complex challenges they face to deliver truly ‘sustainable’ buildings.
If we do not ‘close the loop’ between design and performance-in-use, we have no hope of steering the built
environment towards a more sustainable future. Closing the Loop describes the range of sustainable design
options and the various tools and techniques that can be used to investigate their success, all with the aim of
enabling a more holistic approach to what currently is a fragmented development system.
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