What colour is your building? measuring and reducing the energy and carbon footprint of buildings
Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint. What Colour is your...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint. What Colour is your Building? provides practical and pragmatic guidance on how to calculate and then compare the whole carbon footprint of buildings using one simple method looking at operating, embodied and transport energy. It will equip designers, building owners, occupiers, planners and policy makers with the tools and knowledge that they will need to make decisions early on about where the big impacts will be in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of the building, including: A new, simple approach to understanding the whole carbon impact of buildings. Benchmarking data for operating energy performance. A clear, transparent method of separating landlord energy performance from tenant energy performance. Simple diagrams and numbers to put renewable energy into perspective |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 264 pages color illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1000706303 9781000706796 9781000705812 1000705811 9781000706307 9780429347733 0429347731 |