What Colour is your Building?

What Colour is your Building?

Author: David Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1000706796

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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.


What Colour is Your Building?

What Colour is Your Building?

Author: David Clark

Publisher: Riba Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781859464472

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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.


Paint Yourself Positive

Paint Yourself Positive

Author: Jean Haines

Publisher: Search Press Limited

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1781265771

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Bestselling international author and artist Jean Haines' new book takes readers on an exciting journey through painting. Not just a book for artists, this is for anyone looking for a way of enhancing their life and mood through paint. It's also a way into art for people who have never painted and may even have been told they 'can't paint' at an early age. If you love the idea of sitting down and playing with colour and paint as a distraction from the stresses of modern life, then this is the book for you! All of Jean's books have promoted the life-enhancing effects of painting, and this is especially relevant in Paint Yourself Positive. Whether you can already paint or not, the aim of the book is for you to create in a way that you find pleasing, increases your self-confidence and leaves you feeling energized. Jean will very soon have you wanting to pick up a paintbrush and start to paint - and loving every second of it.


Building Revolutions

Building Revolutions

Author: David Cheshire

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1000701557

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The construction industry operates within a linear economy of make, use, dispose. Buildings are stripped out and torn down with astonishing regularity while new buildings are constructed from hard-won virgin materials. But raw materials are becoming scarce, and the demands for them are exploiting fragile ecosystems, even as the global demand for resources continues to rise. Policy makers and organisations are beginning to look for a more regenerative, circular economy model. The construction industry demands over half the world’s extracted materials and generates around a third of the total waste generated in the EU, making it a prime candidate for applying the circular economy. Yet there has been little focus on how construction industry professionals and their clients can contribute towards the movement. Drawing on illustrative methods and examples, Building Revolutions explains how the principles of a circular economy can be applied to the built environment where resources are kept in use and their value retained.


In Full Colour

In Full Colour

Author: Dirk Meyhöfer

Publisher: Braun Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783938780336

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Colour does not have to mean gaudy the publication In Full Colour demonstrates the different functions of colour in an architectural design. By the different ways architects use colour as design element they support the creation of atmosphere and space, provide orientation aid or contribute along with lighting effects to a special night ambience. The title of the new series Architecture & Materials presents seventy contemporary projects, all with photos, planning material and texts furthermore, in a special feature the role of colour since the Bauhaus is reflected. The book includes a wealth of building types ranging from a dentist practice to the Olympic Village from 2006.