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Sustainable Design Basics

Sharon B. Jaffe, Rob Fleming, Mark Karlen, Saglinda H. Roberts · ISBN 9781119443735
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Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Author(s) Sharon B. Jaffe / Rob Fleming / Mark Karlen / Saglinda H. Roberts
Edition 1
Published 7th February 2020
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An accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers.


Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear and relatable chapters illustrate how to identify the factors that reduce energy use, solve specific sustainable design problems, develop holistic design solutions, and address the social and cultural aspects of sustainable design. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, the text’s easy-to-follow methodology leads readers through the fundamental sustainable design principles for the built environment.


Sustainably-constructed and maintained buildings protect the health and improve the productivity of their occupants, as well as help to restore the global ecosystem. The authors, leading practitioners and educators in sustainable design, have created a resource that provides a solid introduction to broad level sustainability thinking that students can take forward into their professional practice. Topics include space planning for sustainable design, integrative and collaborative design, standards and rating systems, real-world strategies to conserve energy and resources through leveraging renewable natural resources and innovative construction techniques and their impact on our environment.


Usable and useful both in and beyond the classroom, this book:



  • Covers building location strategies, building envelopes and structures, integration of passive and active systems, green materials, and project presentation

  • Examines cultural factors, social equity, ecological systems, and aesthetics

  • Provides diverse student exercises that vary by climate, geography, setting, perspective, and typology

  • Features a companion website containing videos for each sustainable strategy, matrices, templates, Sketch-Up and AutoCAD files, PowerPoint slides, and extensive instructor resources 


Sustainable Design Basics is an important resource aimed at undergraduate architecture and interior design students, or first-year graduate students, as well as design professionals wishing to integrate sustainable design knowledge and techniques into their practice.

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