The Environmental Brief: Pathways for Green Design

by Wendy Cheshire, Richard Hyde, Steve Watson, et al.

The built environment is responsible for an estimated forty-five per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. As the greatest opportunities for reducing these emissions occur during the briefing and design processes, the pathway to better design lies in preparing environmental briefs, and using these to drive building design and produce buildings of high environmental performance. This process-driven book looks at the theoretical issues involved in an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415290449
• ISBN13: 9780415290449
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 10.9"