Environmental Design

Contributors vii
Foreword by Edward Cullinan ix
Preface by Max Fordham xi
Apologies and acknowledgments xiii
Units and abbreviations xv
Part One 1
1 Strategies 3
MAX FORDHAM
2 Comfort, health and environmental physics 7
BILL WATTS
3 Buildings and energy balances 29
BILL WATTS AND RANDALL THOMAS
4 Building planning and design 37
RANDALL THOMAS
5 Site planning 54
RANDALL THOMAS
6 Materials and construction 67
RANDALL THOMAS
7 Energy sources 81
RAMIRO GODOY
8 Lighting 96
RANDALL THOMAS
9 Engineering thermal comfort 110
RANDALL THOMAS
10 Water, waste disposal and appliances 145
MIKE ENTWISLE, RANDALL THOMAS AND ADAM RITCHIE
Summary 153
RANDALL THOMAS
Part Two 155
11 RMC International Headquarters 157
BART STEVENS
12 Queens Building, De Montfort University 165
EDITH BLENNERHASSETT
13 The Charles Cryer Studio Theatre 183
COLIN HAMILTON

14 The Environmental Building, Building Research Establishment 190
RANDALL THOMAS AND BART STEVENS
15 The Millennium Centre, Dagenham 211
RANDALL THOMAS
16 The Bedales Theatre 217
RANDALL THOMAS
17 Beaufort Court 222
TAMSIN TWEDDELL
18 Heelis, Central Office for the National Trust 231
GUY NEVILL
Appendices 239
A Environmental data and the psychrometric chart 241
RANDALL THOMAS
B Calculation Procedures 249
RANDALL THOMAS
C Acoustics 253
RANDALL THOMAS AND ANTHONY CHILTON
D Photovoltaics 255
RANDALL THOMAS AND LORNA MARKHAM
Illustration acknowledgements 262
Index 265