This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition; and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced by architect; engineer and client today.Green Buildings Pay: Design; Productivity and Ecology examines; through a range of detailed case studies; how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. These cases are examined from three main perspectives: that of the architect; the client and the user. Completely revised with all new chapters; cases; sections and introductory material the third edition presents:over 20 new researched case studies drawn from the UK; Europe and the USA; written in collaboration with the architects; engineers; clients and user groups examples of office and educational buildings of high sustainable and high architectural quality an exploration of the architectural innovations that have been driven by environmental thinking; such as the new approaches to the design of building facades; roofs; and atriacases which demonstrate current practice in the area of energy/eco-retrofits of existing buildings documentation of the benefit impact assessment schemes such as LEED and BREEAM have had upon client expectations and on design approaches over the past decade beautiful full color illustrations throughout.In the fast evolving arena of green building; the book shows how architects are reshaping their practices to deal with ever more demanding energy standards and better informed users and corporate clients.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A reference and an inspirationBy L. WilkinsonMEDIAPEDIA is a wonderful resource-- a tour of the creative frontiers of digital media... a collection of approaches and techniques each of which is a powerful tool... and a suite of demonstrations of creativity-in-practice. Like THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG; MEDIAPEDIA has the serendipituous joy-- and the extraordinary utility-- of a Swiss Army knife. Its a delight that no student nor creative professional should be without.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Book for beginnersBy MLAI may have misread the description of this book; but I assumed it was an inspirational book for professional designers/photographers. I found it far too simplified with very little new information for me personally. It is probably great for beginning Photoshop and digital camera users.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Easy to read book to help every person in front of a keyboard up the ante on all their digital image creationBy LydiaFor full disclosure; I was a student of Kits in grad school and have gotten in the habit of gifting his quite wonderful animation book to co-workers who are beginning to work in the field of digital media.Kit has a flair for making even the most complex visual theories feel basic and has a deep rooted desire to share digital image making tools with everyone in his radius - thanks to the internet; its a pretty big radius.Mediapedia is an easy to read; workbook style book designed to help everyone use their available computer digital tools in the creation enhancement of media. Success is in the details and Mediapedia will help you master the techniques to perfect the details in both your personal and professional media creation.
