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Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment [Hardcover]

Wayne Forster (Author), Dean Hawkes (Author)

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July 15, 2002

An examination of how energy efficiency can be enhanced by integrating advances in architecture and engineering.

Exploring the evolving relationship between architecture and engineering, this book examines the environmental function and performance of buildings in the twenty-first century. Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient.
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Critical studies of outstanding recent building projects around the world reveal the many innovative ways designers can integrate architecture and engineering to produce buildings that are both attractive and energy efficient. (From House To Home )

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Wayne Forster is a lecturer at Cardiff University.

Dean Hawkes is professor of architectural design at Cardiff University.

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