Overview
Main description
Three new books offer inspiration and practical advice for integrated, high-performance design.
By B.J. Novitski
It has become increasingly clear that high-performance design depends on an integrated design process.
This is because sustainable, high-performing architecture is not achieved by tossing together a collection of green technologies but by the interaction of many technologies and ideas across disciplines and throughout the chronology of design/construction/operation. This is easy to say, but far harder to implement…
Once inspired, a practitioner will ask: How is this really accomplished? In reply, Tucson, Arizona—based engineer Jerry Yudelson offers Green Building Through Integrated Design as a practice manual, packed with actionable information and showing the design process from many professional points of view. In lengthy quotes from architects, engineers, and building owners, he gives firsthand accounts of innovative teamwork. In this, the meatiest of the three books, the author specifies the characteristics of high-performance buildings, explains LEED categories in detail, and offers no-nonsense descriptions of collaboration at each design phase. Uniquely qualified, with degrees in both engineering and business administration, and a nationally recognized expert in green design, Yudelson describes the barriers perceived by clients and presents a business case for building green. The book includes an extraordinary, 400-item list of questions to consider at successive design phases. Only a fraction of buildings initially registered in the LEED database actually succeed in achieving certification. His advice can help firms reverse this trend. Don’t look for glossy photos here; instead, you will find eminently practical diagrams, data, and ideas.
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Recipe for Success in High-Performance Projects
Chapter 2. Green Buildings Today
Chapter 3. The Practice of Integrated Design
Chapter 4. The Eco-Charrette
Chapter 5. Barriers to High-Performance Buildings: Why Some Projects Succeed and Others Fail
Chapter 6. The Business Case for Green Buildings
Chapter 7. Costs of Green Buildings
Chapter 8. Integrated Project Management--Cost/Benefit Analysis of Green Buildings
Chapter 9. Getting Started--Predesign Considerations
Chapter 10. Conceptual and Schematic Design
Chapter 11. Design Development
Chapter 12. Construction Documents Phase
Chapter 13. Construction and Operations
Chapter 14. Looking Ahead--Designing Living Buildings
Appendix A: Integrated Design Resources
Index
Author comments
Jerry Yudelson, PE, MS, MBA, LEED AP, is founder and principal of Yudelson Associates, Tucson, Arizona, a consulting firm specializing in certifying green building projects, marketing green developments, and creating sustainability programs for corporate clients
