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Retrofit for purpose : low energy renewal of non-domestic buildings

Prasad, Sunand, Penoyre & Prasad (Firm)

Overview

This book examines a range of state-of-the-art non-domestic retrofit projects. Its chapters explore common challenges, offer practical solutions and provide a clarion-call to architects and clients for better, smarter retrofit. Twelve case studies focus as much on the transformation of usability and image as on the improvements in the energy and resource use of non-domestic buildings. While an essay section places these projects into a wider context, suggesting that despite the importance of sharing and analysing data, there is more to retrofit than just energy efficiency. The authors take a range of other retrofit variables: from client ambition to tenure, budget, use type, age, context, fashion and fiscal arrangements and assess how retrofit can be made affordable, how it fits in with wider government policy and how performance can be measured.

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Subject: Buildings Energy conservation Great Britain. / Buildings Repair and reconstruction Great Britain. / Green technology Great Britain. / Buildings Energy conservation Great Britain Case studies. / Buildings Repair and reconstruction Great Britain Case studies. / Green technology Great Britain Case studies.
• ISBN: 9781859465141, 1859465145

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TJ163.5.B84 R45 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE