This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. With 432 printed pages and a 450-page electronic book, supplemented with Digital Extras, this package supplies the preliminary design tools and strategies for achieving Architecture 2030 carbon-neutral performance targets. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.
- Hundreds of illustrations and practical strategies give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.
- Organized to quickly guide the designer in making buildings respond to the sun, wind and light.