TY - BOOK AU - Bougdah, Hocine AU - Sharples, Stephen AU - Smith, Peter F. TI - Environment Technology and Sustainability: Technologies of Architecture (Pb) T2 - Technologies of architecture SN - 9780815394525 U1 - 720.47 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Architecture N1 - Bib and Ref N2 - Looking at the concept of sustainable buildings, this text covers the available technologies and techniques for establishing a suitable environment within buildings while minimising exploitation of scarce energy resources." "Taking a holistic view, this book explains environmental influences on buildings and moves on to outline principles of design, considering the influence of any one set of choices on other areas - the balances and trade-offs required to be a successful building designer ER -