Sustainability, Energy and Architecture
Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects exploring green building technologies. It covers such pivotal issues as daylighting, LED lighting, integrating renewables such as solar thermal and cooling, retrofitting, LEED and similar certification efforts, passive houses, net-zero and close-zero structures, water recycling, and much more. Highlighting best practices for commercial buildings and private homes, in widely varied climates and within vastly different socio-economic contexts, this illustrated reference will guide architects and engineers in making sustainable choices in building materials and methods.

PART I- METHODS & MATERIALS

Sustainable Energy & Architecture

Key Performance Characteristics of Sustainable Buildings

Building Materials and Their Lifecycles

Experiential Sustainability in the Corporate Environment

Low Energy Approaches to Design-Led Schemes

Deep Energy Retrofits for Existing Houses

Daylighting

The LED Lighting Revolution

PART II- INT’L CASE STUDIES

Dutch Efforts Toward Sustainable Built Environment

Energy Efficiency Building Measures in Sweden

Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai

Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba

Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture

PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT

ECOArchitects

Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context

Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future

Energy Efficient Buildings for the Sustainable Built Environment in Dubai

Minimum Energy Housing in Cuba

Sustainable Mediterranean Architecture

PART III- ENERGY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IN CONTEXT

ECOArchitects

Sustainable Architecture in Cultural Context

Learning from the Energy Efficient Past to Shape the Future

Primary: Renewable Energy & Sustainable Building Professionals, including Civil and Electrical Engineers; Architects and Builders specializing in energy reduction. Secondary: Students in courses focusing on Green Building in Engineering and Architecture programs

Professor Ali Sayigh, Graduated from London University, & Imperial College, B.SC. DIC, Ph.D., CEng in 1966. Fellow of the Institute of Energy, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Chartered Engineer.

From 1966 to 1985, Prof Sayigh taught at Baghdad University, College of Engineering; King Saud University, College of Engineering, Saudi Arabia; fulltime; and also Kuwait University as part time professor. He was Head of Energy Department at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and Expert in renewable energy at AOPEC, Kuwait from 1981-1985.

He started working in solar energy in September 1969. In 1984 he established with Pergamon Press his first International Journal for Solar and Wind Technology as an Editor-in-Chief. Since He has been Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy incorporating Solar & Wind Technology, published by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. He is editor of several international journal published in Morocco, Iran, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

He has been a member of ISES since 1973 and founder and Chairman of the ARAB Section of ISES since 1979 and was chairman of UK Solar Energy Society for 3-years and consultants to many national and international organizations, among them, the British Council, ISESCO, UNESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, & UNIDO.

Since 1977, Prof Sayigh founded and directed several Renewable Energy Conferences and Workshops in ICTP - Trieste, Italy, Canada, Colombia, Algeria, Kuwait, Bahrain, Malaysia, Zambia, Malawi, India, West Indies, Tunisia, Indonesia, Libya, Taiwan, UAE, Oman, Czech Republic, West Indies, Bahrain, Germany, Australia, Poland, Netherlands, Thailand, Oman, Korea, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China, USA and UK.

In 1990, he established the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) and in 1992 the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) which hold their Congresses every two years, attracting more than 100 countries each time. In 2000 he and others in UAE, Sharjah founded AS

• Explains the best methods and materials to support energy efficient building
• Features case studies by experts from a dozen countries, demonstrating how sustainable architecture can be achieved in varied climates and economies
• Covers both new constructions and retrofitting of existing structures