1st Edition

Environmentally Friendly Cities Proceedings of Plea 1998, Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1998

By Eduardo Maldonado, Simos Yannas Copyright 1998
    704 Pages
    by Routledge

    704 Pages
    by Routledge

    The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing the impact on the environment of cities and their buildings.

    Foreword * Invited Lectures * Urban Planning * Bioclimatic Planning of Outdoor Spaces * Solar Architecture * Retrofitting * Strategies, Systems and Components * Daylighting * Passive Cooling and Natural Ventilation * Energy and Environmental Impact of Building Materials * Design Tools and Analysis Techniques * Regulations, Solar Access and Certification * Education * Design Support Schemes * THERMIE Demonstration Projects * Author Index

    Biography

    Simos Yannas, Eduardo Maldonado