Main entry:

Roaf, Susan.

Title & Author:

Ecohouse : a design guide / Sue Roaf, with Manuel Fuentes and Stephanie Thomas-Rees.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Description:

xxxvi, 494 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Starting your design -- The environmental impact of building materials -- Pushing the building envelope -- Designing for body and soul -- Ventilation -- Health and happiness in the home -- Passive solar design -- Photovoltaics -- Solar hot water systems -- Using water wisely -- Small-scale wind systems -- Micro- and pico-hydro power -- Ground-source heat pumps -- LIme and low-carbon materials -- Biomass: making the right choices -- Case study introduction: towards the new vernacular -- Tools for understanding the case studies -- Case studies : Oxford ecohouse ; Harper ecohouse ; Reusable building ; Ecohouse Wiberg ; Monama ; Hamamatsu house ; Misawa Homes ; 1979 solar house ; Lim house ; Surabaya ecohouse ; House at Yarrawonga ; Duncan house ; Redeveloped property at Civil Lines ; Meir house ; Bariloche ecohouse ; Tamarind Hills, no. 15 ; Lindavista house ; Middleton house ; Pen-y-Llyn ; Porpoise Point ecohouse ; Vancouver Healthy Housing Project ; Tunisia solar house/pavilion ; Private mountain hideaway ; Nueve Democracia, Affordable Housing Project (Sustainable Improvement Proposal 2006) ; Manufactured housing ; Milnathort ecohouse ; OS ecohouse ; Pembroke Dock ecohouse -- Glossary.

Summary:

Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realisation of her ideals.

ISBN:

9780415526777 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415526779 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ecological houses Design and construction.
Architecture and Planning.
Ecological houses.

Form/genre:

Statistics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284674
Call No.: BIB 223774
Status: Available