The Environmental Design Pocketbook
The Environmental Design Pocketbook has received commendation for the 2012 RIBA President's Award for outstanding practice-located research! (31.10.12) and its author, Sofie Pelsmakers has been listed among 20 'Women influencing Sustainable Architecture' by Architects Journal, as 1 of 100 top Twitter influencers in sustainable construction, design and the built environment and in the top 10 of BDtwitter100 2013 and BD's top ten sustainability tweeters (2013). Sofie was 'highly commended' for the UKGBC/PRP 2013 inaugural Rising Star award" (March 2013) and was listed as 1 of 13 Stars of Building Science in Building 4 Change's Virtual Academy of Excellence (Sept 2013)
Written by Sofie Pelsmakers, this handy illustrated pocketbook focuses on how to design new low carbon architecture. It does all the hard work for you, distilling the most relevant information about design theory, technology, building science, cost, current legislation and best practice into a simple format that is quick and easy to use.
Focusing principally on housing design, it covers the Building Regulations, the Code for Sustainable Homes and the latest in zero-carbon thinking and deals with technological solutions to cope with both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Rules of thumb allow you to design and test your designs straightforwardly but without over-simplification.
Written for architects and students of architecture as well as engineers, planners, clients and developers, this handy new pocketbook for low energy building design is the answer to the professional designer’s prayers.
The purpose of the website is to provide the reader with book information and in particular regular updates of book content; as well as further reading weblinks which feature in the book, to make the use of the book as easy as possible. Weblinks can be found in each chapter page.
Any author royalties are used for further research, updates and future editions.
The book has been printed and bound in the UK on 100% FSC recycled paper.
Written for architects and students of architecture as well as engineers, planners, clients and developers, this handy new pocketbook for low energy building design is the answer to the professional designer’s prayers.
The purpose of the website is to provide the reader with book information and in particular regular updates of book content; as well as further reading weblinks which feature in the book, to make the use of the book as easy as possible. Weblinks can be found in each chapter page.
Any author royalties are used for further research, updates and future editions.
The book has been printed and bound in the UK on 100% FSC recycled paper.
