Energy, People, Buildings

Energy, People, Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work (RIBA Publishing, 2021), co-authored by Judit Kimpian, Hattie Hartman, and Sofie Pelsmakers, is a comprehensive and up-to-date case study of energy performance.

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Energy, People, Buildings: Making Sustainable Architecture Work (RIBA Publishing, 2021), co-authored by Judit Kimpian, Hattie Hartman, and Sofie Pelsmakers, is a comprehensive and up-to-date case study of energy performance.

Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used in buildings, and how to drive down operational energy use – whether you’re an architect, student, client, building services engineer, contractor, building operator or other stakeholder. Focusing on evidence from feedback on buildings in use, it explains what it takes to get them to perform as expected, as well as the reasons why they often fail.

Energy, People, Buildings draws extensively on the findings of industry research, UK government funded building performance evaluations and on original research into seven case studies from across the UK and abroad that have achieved exemplary energy use through building performance feedback. Providing a clear roadmap to understanding aspects that impact building users’ comfort and satisfaction, it also outlines the factors behind energy use and how to track it across the life of a project to ensure that your building performs as intended.

Case studies include: the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool; Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, Colorado; and Carrowbreck Meadow, Norwich.

Featured architects: AHMM, AHR, Architype, Hamson Barron Smith, Haworth Tompkins, Henning Larsen Architects and ZGF Architects.

For more information, please visit energypeoplebuildings.com. See also Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency: 2021 edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and Nick Newman.

Weight 1078 g
Dimensions 25,7 × 21,7 × 2,2 cm
Author(s)

Hattie Hartman, Judit Kimpian, Sofie Pelsmakers

Publisher

RIBA Publishing

Publishing year

2021

Language

Images

architectural drawings, colour photos, diagrams

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Number of pages

214

ISBN

978-1859-4658-75