Energy Efficient Buildings

Architecture Engineering And Environment

Author  Dean Hawkes and Wayne Forster
Energy Efficient Buildings

An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering.

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient.