Innovations for Sustainable Building Design and Refurbishment in Scotland

Part of the Green Energy and Technology Book Series

Editors: Dimitrijević, Branka

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02478-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-02477-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2013

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Chapter 1Introduction

Dimitrijević, Branka

Pages: 1 –9

[This chapter provides an overview of the Construction Industry Club (CIC) Start Online project, its context, aims, objectives, partnership, management, outputs, dissemination methods, membership, legacy and beneficiaries. As the project enabled successful collaboration of seven Scottish...
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Chapter 2Towards More Sustainable Built Environments

Laing, Richard

Pages: 11 –18

[The built environment in Europe accounts for around half of all energy use across the community. Therefore, drives to improve the sustainability of Europe and its member states have contained numerous initiatives and mechanisms through which energy use and carbon emissions can be reduced. It is...
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Chapter 3Planning for Resilience

Roaf, Sue; Dimitrijević, Branka; Emmanuel, Rohinton

Pages: 19 –44

[We live in a rapidly changing world characterised by increasing unpredictability and its associated risks. Many forces combine to add complexity to our once ordinary twentieth century pathways. Extremes of weather, climate change, costs of food, raw materials and energy and a destabilised global...
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Chapter 4Building Design

Brennan, John

Pages: 45 –66

[This chapter distills the work undertaken by CIC Start Online in respect of building design. It examines how environmental control systems and sustainable construction strategies work in conjunction with the social, economic and spatial needs of buildings. The chapter asks how renewable and low...
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Chapter 5Technologies

Moore, David R.

Pages: 67 –86

[The drive for a sustainable built environment is resulting in a greater focus on the range of technologies available and the level of performance that such technologies can achieve. Performance is typically measured across a number of factors but most usually comprises a relationship between...
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Chapter 6Construction

Moore, David R.

Pages: 87 –104

[The construction phase of a building project is where the theory applied at the design stage starts to become reality. This reality is formed in an environment of regulation and cultural expectation of how the industry should practise its skills. Traditionally, these skills have been strongly...
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Chapter 7Refurbishment

Baker, Paul

Pages: 105 –125

[The current perception is that options for upgrading the thermal performance of pre-1919 dwellings with solid wall constructions are particularly limited and are considered as ‘hard to treat’. This chapter reviews research projects which challenge the assumption that there are only limited...
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Chapter 8Building Performance Evaluation

Sharpe, Tim

Pages: 127 –146

[This chapter will include an introduction to the context of the performance of buildings use. These include changing energy and environmental targets and the development of new designs, materials and technologies to meet these targets. The question that emerges is, are these successful? Are the...

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