[ebooks] Building Design Management by Colin Gray; Will Hughes at Arts-Photography

Description

Covering the full life span of the project; from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment; this is a comprehensive guide to designing; planning and building a solar house. The author uses his experience of living in a solar house to inform the reader of the technology and practices needed for the design; operation and maintenance of the solar home. Each of the technologies of the house; such as space heating and cooling; domestic hot water and electric power technologies; are critiqued from the point of view of the owner/resident; with the author using his thirty years experience of living in a solar home. This provides home owners who are thinking of going solar with first hand evidence of best practice; and provides the architect and designer with the knowledge of how to best satisfy their clients needs.