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Two thousand years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern book for today. Now fully updated, this well established textbook provides advice suitable for undergraduate and post graduate students on the integration of sustainable practice into the design and construction process, the issues to be considered, the strategies to be adopted, the elements of green design and design evaluation within the process. Classic design elegance is found in the holistic clear solution.

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• The Green Building
• The Imperative to Green Design
• Architectural Quality, Quality of Service
• Part 1 Process
• Introduction
• Inception
• Design
• Tender
• Procedure
• Construction
• Operation
• Refurbishment
• Part 2 Issues
• Introduction
• Comfort Health Environment
• Part 3 Strategies
• Introduction
• Urban and Neighbourhood Site Selection and Analysis
• Site Planning
• Building Form
• Building Envelope Finishes
• Services, Equipment and Controls Renovation
• Part 4 Elements
• Components Materials
• Part 5 Evaluation
• Introduction
• Design Evaluation Tools
• Building Performance Simulation Tools
• Environmental Rating Systems
• Life Cycle Cost

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Intended as a single-point general reference for architects and designers wishing to create sustainable buildings, A Green Vitruvius offers advice in the areas of energy and water inputs, materials, indoor air quality, and waste. The original edition, published nearly a dozen years ago, has been completely revised and updated to represent technological advances. What separates this four-part volume by Brophy (Univ. College Dublin) and Lewis (emer., UCD) from other works on sustainable design is its ease of use for those seeking answers to specific questions. One may choose the section on the design and construction process, or the ones on issues to be considered in green design, strategies to be adopted, or elements of green design. If the photographs and diagrams representing the concepts discussed in the text were a little larger, they would be more valuable. Despite this drawback, A Green Vitruvius appears to be one of the best books available for useful information about specific materials and their sustainable potential or shortcomings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. R. P. Meden Marymount University

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Vivienne Brophy is a Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology in University College Dublin (UCD) and a Director of the UCD Energy Research Group. Vivienne's research and teaching focuses on supporting undergraduate and post graduate students, the architectural profession and the wider construction industry to meet the challenge for design teams today in delivering truly sustainable buildings.J Owen Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Architectural Science in University College Dublin (UCD) and currently Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Ireland's national energy authority. He was Director of the UCD Energy Research Group for over thirty years and has co-ordinated many European Commission energy research and dissemination activities and has lectured in most EU Member States on sustainable architectural design.