Architectural Structure & Design

Wood is a fundamental natural resource for building. Environmentally sustainable building is a worldwide trend. Wood is widely available and widel...

Quantifies the costs and carbon savings associated with very low carbon new building and improving efficiency through refurbishing existing buildin...

This report provides a review of how metals have been assessed within the current edition of The Green Guide to Specification, including the applic...

In Building A Low Impact Roundhouse Tony Wrench shares his many years of experience, his skills and techniques, his ups and downs, always in a witt...

People across the world are becoming more aware of the need for the buildings and cities they live and work in to be sustainable, but the issue of ...

Designing the Ecocity-in-the-Sky is a comprehensive resource on vertical urbanism and how to plan and design a vertical ecocity of 100 stories. The...

Climate change is a pressing concern for the construction sector. Building designers are already on the front line of reducing global greenhouse ga...

In its 11th edition the International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning continues to attract academics, policy makers, practitione...

In architecture, a facade is the skin of a building. Eco-Friendly Building Facade demonstrates just how important this 'skin' is by illustrating it...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energ...

It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level. However, improving ener...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor envi...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor envi...

All architects hoping to design to the Passive House standard need to know how to use The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book provides...

In Germany, working with existing structures has become the architect''s most important task, the objective being to recognize and redevelop the en...

This book aims to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributio...