1st Edition

What Colour is your Building? Measuring and reducing the energy and carbon footprint of buildings

By David Clark Copyright 2019
320 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

320 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Defining and reducing the carbon footprint of a new or refurbished building can be a daunting task. There are lots of tools to measure the environmental impact of buildings, but they all measure energy and CO2 in different ways, and they do not measure the whole carbon footprint. What Colour is your Building? provides practical and pragmatic guidance on how to calculate and then compare the... Read more

1 Introduction  Part 1 - What Colour?  2 Energy and Carbon in Buildings  3 How Much Energy Do Buildings Use?  4 Embodied Carbon  5 Transport Carbon  6 Whole Carbon Footprint  Part 2 - Changing Colour  7 Ten Steps to Reducing Energy Consumption  8 Renewable Energy  10 Lower Carbon Materials 11 Green Travel  12 Making the Business Case  13 Conclusion

Biography

David Clark