Sustainable Renovation / Wiley Series in Sustainable Design (ePub)

The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for
both Historic and modern existing buildings

This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the
sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great
opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance
of the built environment. Great examples of existing building
upgrades are examined, illustrating how to do sustainable
renovations, along with current design approaches for radically
improving the functionality of existing prewar, postwar, and late
modern buildings. Sustainable Renovation saves its key focus
for institutional and commercial buildings, but discusses the
challenges they pose within a global scope that encompasses all
building practices. Some of the discussions in this book
include:

* The significance of energy and resource demands by the building
sector and the urgency of reducing loads in existing buildings

* Management, design, and construction approaches to achieve major
modernization in occupied buildings

* International case studies that focus on methods and benefits of
successful sustainable transformations of existing building
performance

Repurposing buildings to preserve style and add performance
remains a work in progress as designers and builders discover new
methods for improving sustainable practices and standards. With
incremental modernization and operations strategies available for
immediate implementation, this book demonstrates the different ways
of thinking necessary when considering and attempting the
integration of sustainable concepts into existing
buildings--and enables readers to rethink the world that's
built around them.