Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Sustainability and the Policy Landscape

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Meaning of Sustainability

      • John Sturges

      Pages 3-8

   3. The Patchwork Politics of Sustainable Communities

      • Quintin Bradley

      Pages 9-15

   4. What has Posterity Ever Done for us? An Ethical Framework for UK Climate Change Policy

      • John Bradley

      Pages 17-29

   5. The Rocky Road of Post-Capitalist Grassroots Experimentation

      • Paul Chatterton

      Pages 31-44

3. Sustainability and Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. An Evaluation of Thermal and Lighting Performance Within an ETFE Structure

      • Benjamin A. J. Martin, Dawa Masih, Benson Lau, Paolo Beccarelli, John Chilton

      Pages 47-58

   3. Double-Skin Façades for the Sustainable Refurbishment of Non-domestic Buildings: A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Perspective

      • Francesco Pomponi, Poorang A. E. Piroozfar, Eric R. P. Farr

      Pages 59-72

   4. Off-the-Shelf Solutions to the Retrofit Challenge: Thermal Performance

      • David Farmer, Chris Gorse, Dominic Miles-Shenton, Matthew Brooke-Peat, Callum Cuttle

      Pages 73-93

   5. African Energy-Plus Construction—A Case Study of House Rhino

      • Christopher Allen, Katharina Crafford

      Pages 95-109

   6. Smart Badge for Monitoring Formaldehyde Exposure Concentration

      • Houssem Eddine Fathallah, Vincent Lecuire, Eric Rondeau, Stéphane Le Calvé

      Pages 111-123

4. Surveying, Measuring and Modelling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. A Case Study of the Metrics of Capturing the ‘Green’ Improvements on a New Office Building

      • Chris Pottage, Howard Jeffrey

      Pages 127-147

   3. Building Surveys to Inform Assessment of Initial Conditions in a Property Prior to Thermal Upgrade

      • Melanie Smith

      Pages 149-162

   4. A New Experiment and Modelling Work to Jointly Identify the Building Envelope’s Thermal Parameters and a Physical Solar Aperture

      • Guillaume Lethé

      Pages 163-180

5. Measuring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Quantifying the Effect of Window Opening on the Measured Heat Loss of a Test House

      • Richard Jack, Dennis Loveday, David Allinson, Kevin Lomas

      Pages 183-196

   3. A Methodology for Identifying Gaps Between Modelled and Measured Energy Performance in New-Build Social Housing

      • Agnieszka Knera, James Parker, Alan Poxon

      Pages 197-205

   4. Evaluating Natural Ventilation in Future Climate Scenarios as Part of a Long-Term Non-domestic Retrofit Strategy for an Educational Facility

      • James Parker

      Pages 207-221

This book focuses on the impacts of the built environment, and how to predict and measure the benefits and consequences of changes taking place to address sustainability in the development and building industries. It draws together the best treatments of these subjects from the Leeds Sustainability Institute’s inaugural International Conference on Sustainability, Ecology, Engineering, Design for Society (SEEDS). The focus of discussion is on understanding how buildings and spaces are designed and nurtured to obtain optimal outcomes in energy efficiency and environmental impacts. In addition to examining technical issues such as modeling energy performance, emphasis is placed on the health and well-being of occupants. This holistic approach addresses the interdependence of people with the built and natural environments. The book’s contents reflect the interdisciplinary and international collaboration critical to assembly of the knowledge required for positive change.

• sustainable building
• green building
• sustainable development
• leeds sustainability institute
• sustainable urbanism
• sustainable cities
• energy efficient buildings
• sustainable engineering design
• eco-cities
• net zero building

• Dean of Faculty of Arts, Enviro & T, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

  Mohammad Dastbaz

• Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

  Chris Gorse

Dr. Mohammad Dastbaz is Dean of Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology and Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University. Professor Dastbaz’s research work over recent years has been focused on the use and impact of emerging technologies in society, particularly learning, training and the development of “eGovernment.” Dr. Dastbaz has led EU and UK based funded research projects and has been the Symposium Chair of Multimedia Systems in IEEE’s Information Visualisation (IV) conference since 2002.  He has over 50 refereed publications, including numerous journal paper articles, conference papers, book chapters and books on e-learning, eGovernment, and the design and development of Multimedia Systems. Professor Dastbaz is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and UK’s Higher Education Academy as well as the professional member of ACM and IEEE’s computer society. 

Dr. Christopher Gorse is Director of Leeds Sustainability Institute, Head of the Centre for the Built Environment and Professor of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Beckett University. He is an Engineering Professors Council Member, Chartered Builder, Vice Chair for the Association of Researchers In Construction Management leading research projects in the energy, sustainability and building performance. Chris is an established author with publications in management, law, construction and refurbishment. While working in the construction industry, he operated as an engineer and project manager working on both building and civil engineering projects and continues to undertake legal and technical consultancy.

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