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Concise Handbook of sustainable design by Françoise-Hélène Jourda

Awareness, recently, that the planet's resources are limited will generate a revolution. Technological and cultural revolution, just as - if not more - important than the Industrial Revolution. This does not only reduce our energy consumption or find energy alternative but to maintain our capital resources, or what's left, leaving to future generations the opportunity to meet their needs.

It is now possible to construct buildings with a very low impact on the planet. We have the means. Just with the ambition to implement due to other buildings designed, whose aesthetic is still to be discovered. But we must also fix our cities, "heal" our living spaces, restore balance. Many examples are already built, experiment in progress, technical solutions available. Just "do" and teach the "how". The handbook of sustainable development for students and architectural firms is to accompany their project work through a series of questions they should ask when choosing the site, program and throughout the process design since the first sketches to the final choice of location of materials or construction detail.

Each question is accompanied by an illustration and explanatory text necessary to understand how this question is relevant to register their project with an eco-responsible.

Françoise-Hélène Jourda architect committed long standing commitment to sustainable development in construction, has made numerous pilot buildings in this area. She is also a professor at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria) where she directs the past ten years the department of architecture and sustainable development.

Author: Françoise-Hélène Jourda
Publisher: Publisher
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