RIBA Climate Guide
RIBA Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-914124-47-1 (ISBN)
Climate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action.
The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for architects and industry professionals to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge to design buildings that deliver holistic sustainable outcomes, meeting the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and mandatory competence in climate literacy.
Equipping you with the key information that built environment professionals require to halt climate change and mitigate its impacts in your day-to-day work, this book is organised around six overarching topics:
Human Factors
Circular Economy
Energy and Carbon
Water
Ecology and Biodiversity
Connectivity and Transport
Featuring images and original illustrations, each themed section will guide you through fundamental elements and competencies for creating an integrated sustainable design and delivery framework that can be implemented by you in your practice.
Contextualising the climate emergency within the built environment landscape, the book maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science, international agreements, legislations, commitments and roadmaps. It explores shared themes of retrofit, disaster risk resilience and climate justice, among others.
A collection of short, building- and urban-scale case studies present key takeaways, illustrating real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools, as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world.
Mina Hasman is a practising architect, an environmental engineer, and a strong advocate for addressing climate change. She challenges the norms and contributes to the wider climate change, sustainability, wellbeing, and equity debate, as well as actions in her role as the Sustainability Lead at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a subject matter expert at numerous international organisations and as a tutor at various academic institutions. Passionate about education, collaboration and co-creation, Hasman is the founder of the global, transdisciplinary initiative, the Climate Framework, whose mission is to upskill and build collective capacity, across the built environment sector and related academia, for climate action. The taxonomy of the Framework was officially adopted by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2020, to formulate their ‘Climate Literacy Knowledge Schedule’, which this book is structured around.
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Global and Built Environment Climate Fundamentals
Climate Fundamentals
International Legislations, Agreements, Frameworks, Roadmaps and Plans for Action
Risks and Opportunities in a Net Zero Economy
Sustainable Urbanism, Architecture
and Engineering
Built Environment Policy, Legislation, Regulations,
Commitments, Frameworks, Benchmarks and Construction
Industry Guidance
2. Sustainable Outcomes and Common
Threads
Outcome-based Briefing, Design, Delivery and Management of
the Built Environment Retrofit (Adaptation and Reuse)
Planning for (Climate) Extremes,
Disaster Risk, Resilience/Robustness, Redundancy and Adaptation
Climate Justice, Equitable and Inclusive Design
Procurement, Process, Life Cycle Costing, Research and
Innovation
3. Human Factors
Health, Wellbeing and Comfort
Biophilic and Sensory Design
User Experience Design and Occupant Behaviour
Communities, Interconnectivity and
Inclusion
Social Value
4. Circular Economy
Resource Efficiency, Sufficiency and Geographic
Implications
Designing for Change (Flexibility and Adaptability) and
Regeneration
Waste as a 'Resource'
Environmental and Health Impacts of Materials and Waste
Responsible and Ethical Sourcing
5. Energy and Carbon
Passive Design
Active Design: Environmental Systems
and Technologies
Whole Life Carbon Impacts (for Retrofit
and New Build)
Offsetting and Carbon/Offset Credits
Iterative and Integrated Design and Delivery Process
6. Water
Water Cycles, Sources, Stresses, Quality and Management
Water Recycling and Reuse
Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management and Sustainable
Urban Drainage
Water Pollution on Land and in Aquatic Habitats
Impacts of Climate Change (Water-related Hazards and
Disasters)
7. Ecology and Biodiversity
Biodiversity and Net Gain
Nature-based Solutions
Land Use and Urban Density
Bioregional Planning and Biophilic
Urbanism
Sustainable Food Production and Urban Food Systems
8. Connectivity and
Transport
Site Selection, Location and Urban Ecosystems
Compact Development and Walkability
Regional and Local Infrastructure
and Planning
Low Carbon Transport and Multimodal Transportation Networks
Planning for Future of Transportation
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914124-47-2 / 1914124472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914124-47-1 / 9781914124471 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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