GREEN BUILDING TRENDS EUROPE

Skrevet af YUDELSON

The “green building revolution” is a worldwide movement for
energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture and design. Europe
has been in the forefront of green building technology, and Green Building Trends: Europeprovides an indispensable overview of these cutting edge ideas and
applications. In order to write this book, well-known U.S. green
building expert Jerry Yudelson interviewed a number of Europe’s leading
architects and engineers and visited many exemplary projects. With the
help of copious photographs and illustrations, Yudelson describes some
of the leading contemporary green buildings in Europe, including the
new Lufthansa headquarters in Frankfurt, the Norddeutsche Landesbank in
Hannover, a new school at University College London, the Beaufort Court
Zero-Emissions building, the Merck Serono headquarters in Geneva, and a
zero-net-energy, all-glass house in Stuttgart. In clear, jargon-free
prose, Yudelson provides profiles of progress in the journey towards
sustainability, describes the current regulatory and business climates,
and predicts what the near future may bring. He also provides a primer
on new technologies, systems, and regulatory approaches in Western
Europe that can be adopted in North America, including
building-integrated solar technologies, radiant heating and cooling
systems, dynamic façades that provide natural ventilation, innovative
methods for combining climate control and water features in larger
buildings, zero-netenergy homes built like Thermos bottles, and strict
government timetables for achieving zero-carbon buildings. Green Building Trends: Europe is an essential resource for anyone interested in the latest developments in this rapidly growing field.