Climate change is a pressing concern for the construction sector. Building designers are already on the front line of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, meeting increasingly tough standards and regulations on new developments and refurbishments. N...

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Main Authors:	Gething, Bill (Author), Puckett, Katie (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London RIBA Publishing [2013]
Subjects:	Architecture and climate Buildings / Energy conservation Buildings / Heating / Control Buildings / Cooling / Control
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	Climate change is a pressing concern for the construction sector. Building designers are already on the front line of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, meeting increasingly tough standards and regulations on new developments and refurbishments. Now they must rise to a parallel challenge: helping society adapt to a climate that is already changing, and which will to continue to change for many years to come. Our built environment, and the way buildings are designed, constructed and managed, has evolved in response to a climate that has been broadly consistent for hundreds of years. That climate is changing at an unprecedented rate and, within a generation, our buildings may have to cope under very different conditions. How will today's buildings perform in hotter summers and with more frequent storms, floods and droughts? How can designs be future-proofed and existing buildings preserved, and at what cost?
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) color illustrations, color maps
ISBN:	9780429347641 0429347642 9781000708066 1000708063 9781000707762 1000707768 9781000707915 1000707911