L'Heureux, Erik G. editor. Cossu, Giovanni editor. Menon, Lakshmi contributor. Höweler, Eric 1972- contributor. Heng, Chye Kiang 1958- contributor. Ho Puay-Peng contributor. Kessling, Wolfgang contributor. Kishnani, Nirmal 1962- contributor. Knapp, Chris contributor. Comaroff, Joshua contributor. Lam, Khee Poh 1956- contributor. text bibliography cau 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 26 cm With global building stock projected to double in the next two decades, the challenge of reducing the carbon expenditure becomes a planning-design-construction opportunity. This urgently warrants an assessment of existing architectural practices and employment/usage of building systems, by professionals and experts to facilitate sustainable and optimistic experimentations. It is high time that we rethink the creative aspects of not just technology and buildings systems, but also the culture and the foundation of the building industry. The book begins to explore these facets of the complex relationship between the built environment, carbon mitigation and climate change through the low-carbon adaptive re-use of SDE1/3 of the former School of Design and Environment (SDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The essays / articles extrapolate key themes on adaptive re-use to the hot and wet atmospheres on the urbanizing Equator. Unlike new-builds, the design and development of adaptive re-use projects straddle the existing realities of the built form and future projections of building use and operations. Erik L'Heureux, Ed., Giovanni Cossu, Ed. Includes bibliographical references. Sustainable architecture Architecture Environmental aspects Carbon dioxide mitigation Architecture Environmental aspects Carbon dioxide mitigation Sustainable architecture 720.47 9781954081444 230726 20260326152841.0