Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to
understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This
fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice
and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest
emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between
buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can
be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based
energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also
describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As
sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the
advance of climate change, government legislation and international
treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer
and designer. This immensely practical book is packed with useful
diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of
the most recent case studies, including the education building, the
Core, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. As well as exploring cutting
edge developments in photovoltaics (PV) this revised edition also
includes the latest data from the 2006 Carbon Trust report on wave
and tide, and new material on the latest advances in bioenergy and
marine technologies. Buildings are currently a major part of the
carbon emissions problem. This book indicates how they may become
part of the solution.
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