Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building: Principles and Practice - Hardcover

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Marian Keeler, Associate AIA, LeEED AP, is a San Francisco-based green building consultant with Simon & Associates and a writer on sustainable buildings. She specialized in green building consulting at SMWM and as an independent consultant.
 
Bill Burke, AIA, is the Architectural Program Coordinator at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco, California. He is also on the Board of Directors of AIA/ San Francisco.

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A rich sourcebook covering the breadth of environmental building
 
Whatever your career path, be it in one of the design professions, engineering, land use planning, resource and waste management, or government, understanding the fundamentals of integrated building design is essential to your role in developing a better environment. Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building introduces the student and practitioner to the history, theory, and technology of green building and describes practical approaches to planning, designing, and building structures that mitigate, or even reverse, the impacts of buildings on the environment.
 
Using an active learning approach, authors Marian Keeler and Bill Burke explain the concepts of sustainable architecture and reinforce them through design problems, research exercises, study questions, team projects, and discussion topics. Chapters by specialists in the green movement cover such topics as:
* The integrated building design process
* The emergence of green building and green building legislation
* Environmental chemicals in humans and buildings
* Energy use and standards
* Energy-efficient design for both residential and commercial buildings
* Water quality and conservation
* Sustainable neighborhoods and communities
* Construction and demolition waste management
 
Introducing the reader to everything from history and philosophy to design technologies and practice, this sweeping resource will launch and guide the careers of those charged with transforming the way buildings are planned, designed, and constructed.

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Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building

Marian Keeler and Bill Burke