The Whole Building Handbook

Varis Bokalders, Maria Block

December 2009
Code: 70448
ISBN: 978 1 84407 486 0
496 pp
Paperback
£44.95

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The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency, to include guidance for architecture that promotes social cohesion, personal health, renewable energy sources, water and waste recycling systems, permaculture, energy conservation, and crucially, buildings in relation to their place.