Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

Book

Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

Entry/Object ID

2017.002.002

Description

A nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make--from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions. Presents 50 case studies of projects--schools, houses, offices, stores, museums, and government buildings--that set new standards for holistic approaches to adaptive reuse and sustainability. Covers design issues, from building location to lighting systems, renewable power options, stormwater handling, and building envelope protection and integrity. Contents: pt. 1. Overview. Buildings and environmental stewardship : understanding the issues -- Buildings and sustainable development : understanding the goals -- Tools, guidelines and process : balancing the goals -- pt. 2. Targeted resource conservation. Water and site -- Energy : not the only issue, but ... -- Indoor health : light, air and health -- Materials and resources : reduce, repair, reuse, recycle -- pt. 3. Of special note. Best practices : operations, maintenance and change -- Houses -- The recent past. xiv, 401 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 24 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2017.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2017)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Sustainable architecture--United States--Case studies, Sustainable buildings--Design and construction--United States--Case studies, Historic preservation--United States--Case studies

Book Details

Author

Carroon, Jean, 1952-

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Place Published

Location

Hoboken, NJ

Date Published

2010

Call No.

NA2542.36 .C37 2010

ISBN

9780470169117

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Jean Carroon. Includes bibliographical references and index. "My favorite Asley Wilson [signed] Jean" written on title page.

Created By

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Create Date

February 3, 2017

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023