Description
Sustainaspeak
A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms
Author: Lewis Elizabeth
Language: English
Subject for Sustainaspeak:
Keywords
EBN; Adaptive Reuse; LEED; Architecture 2030; UN; Bioclimatic Design; LEED Building Certification; Biomimicry; Urban Heat Island; Biophilia; Doe; Blackwater; Living Building Challenge; BREEAM; Design Buildings Wiki; Brise-soleil; Green Building Certification Systems; Building Information Modeling; Sustainable Site Design; Carbon Tax; AIA; Chilled beams; Indoor Environmental Quality; Clean Power Plan; Paris Climate Agreement; Climate Change; Life Cycle Assessment; Cool roof; Greenhouse Gases; Downcycling; Climate Responsive Design; Ecological footprint; Solar Heat Gain Coefficient; Embodied energy; Energy Efficiency; Energy Simulation Model; Urban Tree Canopy; Graywater; Solar Reflectance Index; Health Product Declarations; Green Building Rating Systems; Heat island effect; Energy Building Certification; Water Energy Nexus; International Green Building Code; Biophilic Design; Health Product Declaration; Life Cycle Analysis; Micro-turbine; On-site wastewater treatment; Paris Agreement; COP21; Passive design; Polluters Pay Principle; Polyvinylchloride; PVC; Post Occupancy Evaluation; Psychrometric chart; Rainwater Management; Resilient design; Shading coefficient; Sick Building Syndrome; Smart city initiatives; Solar energy; Structural insulated panels; Systems thinking; Tragedy of the commons; Trombe wall; Vernacular; Volatile organic compounds; Xeriscaping; Zero-Energy Building; Olivier Chamel; Mahsan Mohsenin; Enn Ots; Edward T; White
Publication date: 02-2018
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 02-2018
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
Description
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Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping.
What does it all mean?
The complex and evolving language used in the sustainable design community can be very challenging, particularly to those new to environmentally friendly and resource-efficient design strategies that are needed today.
- Definitions of over two hundred terms with further sources.
- Clearly cross-referenced with Sustainaspeak, Theoryspeak, and Archispeak terms.
- Illustrated throughout with sustainable award-winning buildings by e.g. Behnisch, Brooks + Scarpa, EHDD, KieranTimberlake, Lake|Flato, Leddy Mahtum Stacy, SmithGroup, Perkins+Will, ZGF, VMDO, and McDonough + Partners.
Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies, terms, and practices needed for the next generation of designers, architects, students, and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations.
Illustrations. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. List of Terms. Acronyms for Further Sources. Sustainaspeak. Further Reading. Index.
Elizabeth Lewis, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor at Florida A&M University School of Architecture, USA, has over twenty-five years of design teaching experience with a research focus on high-performing and net-zero buildings. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she is active in the profession and AIA leadership, a founder of USGBC Florida Capital Region Chapter, and a contributor to Decoding Theoryspeak.
