architects

Engineers, architects and contractors seeking to expand their involvement in the green buildings market need a firm grounding in the marketing strategies and tactics which are being used most successfully in this specialized and growing field. This book is intended to serve as an effective tool for professional green building enthusiasts and advocates in presenting green design features, sustainable strategies and new products to the potential green building client.

• advocates
• approaches
• architects
• author addresses
• building marketing
• building projects
• design features
• enthusiasts
• growing marketplace
• involvement
• leed
• marketing strategies
• new products
• professional service
• related services
• service marketing
• sustainable strategies
• tactics

A compelling manifesto using ten buildings to illustrate how environmental responsibility promises to reinvigorate contemporary architecture.Contemporary buildings, like contemporary forms of urban development, are major contributors to the environmental crisis.

• advances in technology
• architecten
• architects
• architectural league
• color photographs
• color photos
• contemporary architecture
• contemporary buildings
• curator
• design excellence
• environmental responsibility
• generously
• herzog partner
• international roster
• line drawings
• new opportunities
• peter buchanan
• renzo piano
• responsive design
• sustainability

The built environment is responsible for an estimated 45% of all green house gas emissions. It is during the design process where decisions are made and which can have the greatest influence on the reduction of the impact of the built environment. The architectural brief is seen by architects as the most crucial part of the entire design process in terms of achieving high quality buildings. Environmental design strategies are often considered as being of lesser importance.

• achieving
• architects
• building design
• built environment
• continual improvement
• crucial
• decisions
• design process
• design strategies
• environmental design
• environmental performance
• gas emissions
• green house
• high quality
• international case studies
• quality buildings
• sustainability
• theoretical issues

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes.

• architects
• arid deserts
• chapter features
• christopher hawthorne
• climactic zones
• downtown manhattan
• glenn murcutt
• green house
• heretofore
• indispensable reference
• joy lake
• kengo kuma
• lake flato
• pugh scarpa
• santiago calatrava
• shigeru ban
• sustainable design
• tropical beaches
• tropical desert
• werner sobek

Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field?

• activism
• architects
• consumer choices
• design industry
• designers
• environmental causes
• gender studies
• gould
• implications
• informal conversations
• kira
• policymakers
• something unique
• sustainable design
• voices