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Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture
Departing from the simple question: Why do we heat and cool buildings with air?, this book focuses on the technique of thermally active surfaces...
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Green Living by Design
Filled with easy, insider tips on everything from insulation, carpentry, lighting, and complete renovations to simple projects like redecorating...
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The New Solar Home
Authors Dave Bonta and Stephen Snyder of USA Solar Stores illustrate exceptional homes that are groundbreaking not only in their use of renewable...
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Sustainable Solar Housing [2 Volume Set]
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different...
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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 1: Strategies and Solutions
This volume presents strategies and solutions, offering the reader a solid basis for developing concepts, considering environmental and economic...
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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 2: Exemplary Buildings and Technologies
Thisvolumeoffers a detailed analysis of exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines the various technologies employed to...
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Urban Wind Energy
Energy security, rising energy prices, 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics...
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Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook
Global energy production and climate change concerns make photovoltaics an important technological tool for architects, designers and engineers...
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Domestic Solar Energy: A Guide for the Home Owner
Domestic Solar Energy is brimming with advice and information that will be of value to all those who are interested in making the optimum use of...
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Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying...
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Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials
This complete guide to the evaluation, selection, and use of sustainable materials in the landscape features strategies to minimize environmental...
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Using Natural Finishes: Lime & Earth-Based Plasters, Renders & Paints
Using Natural Finishes is an in-depth guide to the selection, mixing and application of lime and clay based plasters, paints and washes and it...
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Whitelee Windfarm: NBS Learning Channels DVD
About this DVD:The UK has some of the richest renewable energy resources in Europe. Capturing these resources could make a significant contribution...
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Micro-Wind Turbines in Urban Environments: An Assessment
This study shows that, in addition to the initial embodied carbon and efficiency of the turbine, the payback period is highly sensitive to local...
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Natural Architecture
Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and...
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Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses
A new book from an evolving series that looks at housing types, The country's two leading expert advocates for salvaging parts of unwanted houses...
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Sticks, Stones, Mud Homes: Natural Living
This is a lavish portfolio of alternative design and construction based on the principles of minimal environmental impact. Whether you are...
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Natural Timber Frame Homes: Building with Wood, Stone, Clay and Straw
Natural Timber Frame Homes is a book about the future of houses - those inspired not by a technology-governed and energy-intensive world, but...
£17.99
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Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning
"In this pioneering book, Daniel Williams provides the sort of intelligent, thoughtful, experienced insights that if followed will ensure that...
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Yurts: Architecture in the Round
Becky Kemery was introduced to yurts at a retreat centre in the early '90s. Since then she has lived in four different yurts in three states...
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