How to Design and Build a Green Office Building : a Complete Guide to Making Your New or Existing Building Environmentally Healthy

As energy costs rise, more and more companies are looking to create green offices buildings. The energy use statistics are staggering: The heating, cooling, and powering of offices accounts for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States and are responsible for more than 70 percent o...

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Hlavní autor: Bondanza, Jackie, 1980- (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Ocala : Atlantic Publishing Group, 2011
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505 0 |a Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What is Green Building? -- Sustainability -- Environmentally Friendly/Eco-friendly Materials and Practices -- Principles of Green Building -- Misconceptions About Green Building -- The Evolution of Green Building -- Chapter 2: Why Build Green? -- The Cost of Not Building Green -- Problems with Conventional Building Materials -- Your Company's Carbon Footprint -- Benefits of Going Green -- Why You Might Not Want to Build Green -- Challenges of Building Green -- Chapter 3: Planning and Designing Your Green Building Project -- Building Delivery Systems -- Selecting a Design and Construction Team -- Integrated Design Process (IDP) -- The Charrette -- Hiring Your Green Team -- Sample Sustainable Building Designs -- Building Commissioning -- Chapter 4: Building Site and Orientation -- Factors to Consider When Choosing a Location -- Conducting a Site Analysis -- Building Shape and Orientation -- The Building Envelope -- Chapter 5: Energy Efficiency -- Renewable Energy -- Hot Water Heating Systems -- Chapter 6: Water -- Water Efficiency -- Your Water Budget -- Chapter 7: Green Interiors and Exteriors -- Sustainable Floor Plans -- Evaluating Green Materials -- Selecting Materials for the Interior of a Building -- Acoustics -- Lighting -- The Building Exterior -- Chapter 8: Green Building Certification -- LEED Certification -- Green Globes -- Certification and Legal Issues -- Permits and Zoning Requirements -- Chapter 9: Renovating or Retrofitting an Office Building -- Planning and Designing a Retrofit or Renovation -- The Building Envelope -- Improving Energy Efficiency -- Improving Indoor Air Quality -- Handling Asbestos and Lead during Renovation -- Recycling and Reusing Materials -- Historical Preservation and Green Renovation -- Chapter 10: Financing Your Green Project. 
505 8 |a Chapter 11: Making Your Green Building Work -- Greening Your Office from Top to Bottom -- Pest Control -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Useful Websites -- Building Codes and Legal Issues -- Building Commissioning -- Certification -- Daylighting -- Environmentalism -- Financing -- Finding Green Building Professionals -- Design -- Government Agencies -- Global Warming and Climate Change -- Locating Green Materials and Suppliers -- Certification of Materials and Products -- Professional Associations and Organizations -- Recycling -- Renewable Energy -- Trade Shows -- Water Conservation -- Renovation, Retrofitting, and Sustainable Preservation -- Toxins, Pollutants, and Waste Disposal -- Case Studies in this Book -- Appendix B: Acronyms Found in This Book -- Appendix C: Green Building Glossary -- Bibliography -- Author Biography. 
520 3 9 |a As energy costs rise, more and more companies are looking to create green offices buildings. The energy use statistics are staggering: The heating, cooling, and powering of offices accounts for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States and are responsible for more than 70 percent of the country's total electricity usage. Office computers consume 1 billion of electricity annually. One-third of workers are more inclined to work for a company that is going green, and approximately 50 percent want their employers to be more environmentally friendly. How can you attract workers and reduce your costs at the same time? By going green; the tips in How to Design and Build a Green Office Building will show you how. In this book, you will learn how to protect the building occupants health, improve employee productivity, use resources more efficiently, reduce your impact on the environment, and much more. In addition, How to Design and Build a Green Office Building provides you with thousands of low or no cost ways to make your office more environmentally friendly. Whether you are building a brand new building, remodeling an existing one, or even just looking to make small changes that will have a big impact, you need to read this book. Employing the techniques in this book will ultimately save you money, increase your productivity, and attract more employees. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date,  |9 eng 
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