Green Building Trends

The green building revolution" is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture and design. Europe has been in the forefront of green building technology, and Green Building Trends: Europeprovides an indispensable overview of these cutting edge ideas and applications. In order to write this book, well-known U.S. green building expert Jerry Yudelson interviewed a number of Europe's leading architects and engineers and visited many exemplary projects. With the help of copious photographs and illustrations, Yudelson describes some of the leading contemporary green buildings in Europe, including the new Lufthansa headquarters in Frankfurt, the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hannover, a new school at University College London, the Beaufort Court Zero-Emissions building, the Merck Serono headquarters in Geneva, and a zero-net-energy, all-glass house in Stuttgart. In clear, jargon-free prose, Yudelson provides profiles of progress in the journey towards sustainability, describes the current regulatory and business climates, and predicts what the near future may bring. He also provides a primer on new technologies, systems, and regulatory approaches in Western Europe that can be adopted in North America, including building-integrated solar technologies, radiant heating and cooling systems, dynamic faYades that provide natural ventilation, innovative methods for combining climate control and water features in larger buildings, zero-netenergy homes built like Thermos bottles, and strict government timetables for achieving zero-carbon buildings. Green Building Trends: Europeis an essential resource for anyone interested in the latest developments in this rapidly growing field.

Jerry Yudelson is president of Yudelson Associates in Tucson, Arizona, and is an expert on green building practices. A registered professional engineer, he is a former member of the national board of the U.S. Green Building Council. He has authored several books, including The Green Building Revolution (Island Press, 2007).

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Architecture and the Human Condition
Introduction	p. xix
European Green Buildings in Context
Driving Forces in Europe	p. xx
Driving Forces in the United States and Canada	p. xxiii
Impressions from Designers	p. xxvi
The PassivHaus Concept and European Residential Design	p. 1
What's a PassivHaus?	p. 2
What Can We Learn from the PassivHaus Approach?	p. 6
European Design Innovators	p. 15
Foster + Partners, U.K.	p. 15
David Lloyd Jones and Studio E, U.K.	p. 15
Thomas Herzog and Partners, Germany	p. 16
White Design, U.K.	p. 16
Bennetts Associates Architects, U.K.	p. 18
Hopkins Architects, U.K.	p. 19
Make Architects, U.K.	p. 20
Arup Associates, U.K.	p. 21
Short and Associates, U.K.	p. 22
Ingenhoven Architekten, Germany	p. 22
Behnisch Architekten, Germany	p. 23
Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany	p. 23
European Green Buildings Today: What Do They Know That We Don't?	p. 25
The U.K. Example	p. 26
Germany Goes Green(er)	p. 30
The French HQE System	p. 34
Green Building in Switzerland	p. 37
Green Building in Italy	p. 38
Green Building in The Netherlands	p. 40
Green Buildings in the United Kingdom	p. 43
Beaufort Court, Hertfordshire	p. 43
30 St. Mary Axe ("The Gherkin"), London	p. 46
40 Grosvenor Place, London	p. 47
Brighton and Hove Central Library, Brighton	p. 48
Wessex Water Operations Centre, Bath	p. 48
New Street Square, London	p. 49
City Hall and Greater London Authority Headquarters, London	p. 51
The Inland Revenue Centre, Nottingham	p. 51
New Parliamentary Offices, Portcullis House, London	p. 51
Noho Square, London	p. 52
Plantation Place, London	p. 52
Stratford City, East London	p. 53
Corporate Campus for Sky Television, London	p. 53
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London	p. 53
University of Coventry	p. 55
Natural Ventilation at Queens Building, DeMontfort University, Leicester	p. 56
The Helicon, London	p. 57
Wolseley Sustainable Building Centre, Leamington Spa	p. 59
The Green Office at Thorpe Park, Leeds	p. 60
Sustainable Buildings in Germany	p. 63
Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt	p. 63
Commerzbank Headquarters, Frankfurt	p. 65
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg	p. 66
Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover	p. 68
RWE Tower, Essen	p. 68
Ozeaneum, Stralsund	p. 69
Uptown Munich Office Tower, Munich	p. 70
Main Train Station, Stuttgart	p. 70
Therme, Bad Aibling	p. 71
Debis Tower at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin	p. 72
Prisma Nürnberg	p. 73
New German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin	p. 74
GSW Building, Berlin	p. 75
Free University, Berlin	p. 75
Trumpf International, Ditzingen	p. 76
Green Engineering in Europe	p. 77
European Systems Already in Use in the United States and Canada	p. 79
Transsolar and the New Science of Climate Engineering	p. 79
Schüco E-Squared Façade Concept	p. 84
Technology Overview	p. 85
What's on the Horizon?	p. 92
What Can We Use Today?	p. 94
Eco-Towns	p. 97
Freiburg, Germany	p. 97
Linz, Austria	p. 99
Malmö, Sweden	p. 99
Vaxjö, Sweden	p. 101
Greenwich Millennium Village, U.K.	p. 101
The Carbon Challenge Project	p. 102
U.K. Eco-Towns Project	p. 103
Tallinn, Estonia	p. 104
Ecotowns Spread beyond Europe	p. 105
Green Building in the Retail Sector	p. 109
Multi Development, The Netherlands	p. 110
Sonae Sierra, Portugal	p. 112
Shopping Center Technologies	p. 114
SES Development, Austria	p. 115
Lessons Learned	p. 116
Looking to the Future	p. 119
The 2,000-Watt Society	p. 119
Tackling the Problem of Existing Buildings	p. 122
Life-Cycle Design Tools	p. 123
Soft Landings for Green Buildings	p. 124
EPCs and DECs	p. 125
Zero-Carbon Homes and Buildings	p. 126
Smart, Slim Buildings	p. 130
European Green Design Goes East	p. 131
The Challenge and Promise of Green Buildings: Lessons from Europe	p. 135
Lessons Learned	p. 135
What Will We Need to Change to Use the European Experience?	p. 139
Where Should We Be Heading?	p. 140
Design And Development Firms And Projects	p. 143
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 153
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