The Green Studio Handbook ─ Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design

Learn how to integrate green strategies into your building design. This practical handbook provides an essential introduction to green design strategies – helping you to understand how to save energy, water and material resources. It provides the information required to make judgments about which strategy to use and includes tools to enable you to incorporate the chosen strategy during the early stages of design.

Each of the forty-two selected environmental strategies includes a description of principle and concept, step-by-step procedures for integrating the strategy, annotated design tables and charts, key issues to be aware of when implementing the strategy, and references to further resources. Over 500 sketches and colour photos illustrate concepts and applications.

In this second edition, ten new case studies are included to show successful implementation of green strategies and assessments of building performance. Site analysis and glazing strategies have been added and new tables and updated drawings simplify the application of concepts, preliminary system sizing, and integration of strategies.

Using real building projects as a guide, designers will be able to make informed choices about the most competitive and effective way to design a green building.

The Green Studio Handbook is a reference guide and source of inspiration for students in design studios and architects in professional practice.

Alison G. Kwok, Ph.D., AIA, LEED-AP, ASES Fellow, is a licensed architect and a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. She has taught in architeture programs in California, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan, and New York.
Walter Grondzik, PE, LEED-AP, ASES and ASHRAE Fellow, is an architectural engineer and a professor of architeture at Ball State University. He has taught in architecture and architectual engineering programs in Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Saudi Arabia.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Design Process; Integrated Design; Green Design Strategies: Envelope, Lighting, Heating, Cooling, Energy Production, Water and Waste; Case Studies; Glossary of terms; Glossary of buildings; Bibliography