Sustainability

A highly illustrated and updated guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes.

Proposes regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities

Bamboo is in the spotlight as a potential building material in the current pursuit of a CO2-neutral society, due to its rapid maturation and excellent mechanical properties. The book shows benefits of using bamboo as an alternative or replacement for wood.

A unique compendium of circular architecture, exploring comprehensively and in detail all the questions and challenges that architects and engineers face with designs that include the re-use of entire parts and components of disused buildings.

A timely re-evaluation and synthesis of this trailblazing, ecologically minded, and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design, authored by architectural luminary Barry Bergdoll.

An inspirational sourcebook of innovative and unexpected green design solutions for our homes that address the environmental and social issues facing our world today.

This book positions the supply chain of mass timber as a design project, critiquing sourcing today and proposing a species-based methodology.

Still Standing tells the story of the traditional wooden homes (known as ti kai) of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean. This gorgeously illustrated book pays tribute to these humble buildings that have withstood natural and manmade disasters.