Making Your Home Sustainable: A Guide to Retrofitting - Brossura

Wrigley, Derek

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1921844175 ISBN 13: 9781921844171

Casa editrice: Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Demonstrating how to retrofit existing houses with solar, natural buoyancy ventilation, water tanks, and photovoltaics, this practical guide offers instructions on how to make one’s home more comfortable while saving money on energy bills and addressing the causes of global warming. Perfect for homeowners, builders, and architects, this handbook provides simple modifications to create a sustainably designed residence. With photographs and helpful illustrations and diagrams, this book answers a variety of questions, including How can tenants reduce their fuel bills? How do we evaluate the results of retrofitting? and Is housing design going in the right direction?

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L'autore:

Derek Wrigley is a former lecturer at the New South Wales University of Technology, now known as the University of New South Wales, as well as a former architect, industrial designer, and solar consultant. He is also the cofounder of the Industrial Design Council of Australia.

Product Description:

In 1991, architect and solar consultant Derek Wrigley moved into a townhouse in Canberra and faced a new design challenge - how to retrofit an existing suburban house to use renewable energies rather than fossil fuels. Convinced that building design could do more to achieve sustainability, he developed a series of innovative devices to improve the energy efficiency of the house, and modified the existing design to work harmoniously with the local climate. The house now generates about 15 per cent more electricity than it consumes, and the photovoltaic system should have a pay-back period of just under nine years. The house ventilates and cools itself without any electrical assistance or air conditioning, and greywater nourishes the garden. Derek has been advised that for every dollar spent on retrofitting, he is adding at least double that amount to the house's market value. Making Your Home Sustainable is a practical and easy-to-follow guide for homeowners, builders, and architects who are concerned about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation, and who want to do something about reversing the trend. Derek Wrigley shows how simple modifications to existing homes can help to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, and utilise natural rather than imported energies and resources.

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• Editore: Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1921844175
• ISBN 13: 9781921844171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144