January 2013

Energy Efficient Buildings

The book “Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment” by Hawkes and Forster is a little misleading in its title since it only covers large educational and commercial buildings for the most part. The residential buildings it covers are also large multifamily structures. It does not address smaller buildings at all and the title should make some …

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Eco Cities

I just read Ecocities by Richard Register. His definition of an eco city is: •An ecologically healthy human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems and living organisms. •An entity that includes its inhabitants and their ecological impacts. •A subsystem of the ecosystems of which it is part — of …

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