Sustainable Building Pack (5 eBooks - PDFs)

Sustainable Building Pack (5 eBooks - PDFs)

Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture (2009) $100

Michael Bauer, Peter Mösle & Michael Schwarz

An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their
primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to
determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of
a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important
for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very
transparent.This book has been written to assist with clarifying
target criteria and expanding horizons when it comes to ecological
buildings. It is meant as a handbook and source of reference for
clients, architects, planners and building operators, to provide them
with pertinent information about their design, construction and
operation: how to do this in the most energy-efficient and economical
manner?Also, there is feedback and documentation about prominent
buildings like the Hamburg Dockland or the Landesbank
Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. They provide excellent architectural
examples for detailed construction and design solutions. Further,
there are insightful interviews with architects and clients about
many important buildings, which help turn this book into an
integrated source of reference for sustainable architecture. - A
Guideline for Planning, Construction and Operation of sustainable
Buildings - A source of reference for clients, architects, planners
and building operators - Innovative architectural examples with
sustainable concepts and design.

Publisher: Springer (2009)
ISBN: 3642006345

Low Energy Cooling For Sustainable Buildings (2009) $75

Ursula Eicker

This long-awaited reference guide provides a complete overview of low
energy cooling systems for buildings, covering a wide range of
existing and emerging sustainable energy technologies in one
comprehensive volume. An excellent data source on cooling
performance, such as building loads or solar thermal chiller
efficiencies, it is essential reading for building services and
renewable energy engineers and researchers covering sustainable
design. The book is unique in including a large set of experimental
results from years of monitoring actual building and energy plants,
as well as detailed laboratory and simulation analyses. These
demonstrate which systems really work in buildings, what the real
costs are and how operation can be optimized – crucial information
for planners, builders and architects to gain confidence in applying
new technologies in the building sector. Inside you will find
valuable insights into: the energy demand of residential and office
buildings; facades and summer performance of buildings; passive
cooling strategies; geothermal cooling; active thermal cooling
technologies, including absorption cooling, desiccant cooling and new
developments in low power chillers; sustainable building operation
using simulation. Supporting case study material makes this a useful
text for senior undergraduate students on renewable and sustainable
energy courses. Practical and informative, it is the best up-to-date
volume on the important and rapidly growing area of cooling.

Publisher: Wiley (2009)
ISBN: 047069744X

Sustainable Solar Housing Volume 1 - Strategies and Solutions (2009) $50

S. Robert Hastings & Maria Wall

Volume 1 of this two-volume set presents strategies and solutions for
sustainable solar housing, offering the reader a solid platform for
assessing environmental and economic concerns for housing projects,
and offers guidance for implementing the most appropriate course of
action in a variety of contexts. Topics include energy, economics,
ecology and marketing.The Sustainable Solar Housing set examines a
range of potential solutions for low-energy building design,
considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable
energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope,
ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage,
electricity and control). Each volume assesses the potential of these
options in a variety of contexts, covering different housing types
(apartment, row and detached) and different climate types (cold,
temperate and mild). The impressive list of expert authors from 14
countries includes a mix of internationally respected academics and
practitioners, working under the auspices of a five-year
International Energy Agency (IEA) research project.

Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (2009)
ISBN: 1844077993

Sustainable Solar Housing Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies (2009) $45

S. Robert Hastings & Maria Wall

Volume 2 of this two-volume set offers a detailed analysis of
exemplary buildings in different European countries and examines the
various technologies employed. Aided by clear illustrations, it
offers invaluable insights into the application of these
technologies.The Sustainable Solar Housing set examines a range of
potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering
different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and
technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat
delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).
Each volume assesses the potential of these options in a variety of
contexts, covering different housing types (apartment, row and
detached) and different climate types (cold, temperate and mild). The
impressive list of expert authors from 14 countries includes a mix of
internationally respected academics and practitioners, working under
the auspices of a five-year International Energy Agency (IEA)
research project.

Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. (2009)
ISBN: 1844078000

The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (2006) $25

Alanna Stang & Christopher Hawthorne

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori,
Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the
urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and
Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the
globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or
"green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in
fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural environment
-- designed by a combination of star architects and heretofore
unknown practitioners. Six different climactic zones are presented in
The Green House -- waterfront, forest and mountain, tropical, desert,
suburban, and urban; there is also a section on mobile dwellings.
Each chapter features a series of homes that show the diversity and
possibility of sustainable design. Projects are presented with large
color images, plans, drawings, and an accompanying text that
describes their green features and explains how they work with and in
the environment. Architects included: Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru
Ban, Miller/Hull, Rick Joy, Lake Flato, Kengo Kuma, Glenn Murcutt,
Pugh & Scarpa, Werner Sobek, and many others. The Green House is not
only a beautiful object in its own right, but is sure to be an
indispensable reference for anyone building or interested in
sustainable design -- and if you ask us, that should be everyone.

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568984812

There were a few other books I was going to put in this pack as well, but I noticed that they are already u/l on the tracker. Some of them are in packs with other stuff though and can be hard to find. So here's their names and links:

The Complete Book Of Underground Houses: How To Build A Low Cost Home - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=10513

The $50 And Up Underground House Book - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=5732

Solar House: A Guide For The Solar Designer - http://tracker.concen.org/torrents-details.php?id=8096

ENJOY!!! :D