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Engineering for a finite planet : sustainable solutions by Buro Happold

Title: Engineering for a finite planet : sustainable solutions by Buro Happold / Peter Davey.
Author: Davey, Peter, 1940-
Publication: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2009.

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Buro Happold (Firm)

Description

151 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color); 31 cm

Summary

"Our planet's resources are finite, and the engineer's work must take this fact into account. Buro Happold, the international firm of consulting engineers, has for more than 30 years shown a consistently high level of inventive and creative thought about the nature of structure and environmental control and how to use structure, systems and materials to maximum effect with minimum environmental impact. The practice has earned a reputation for expertise and excellence in this field." "The book introduces the work of the firm, highlighting examples of seminal projects that demonstrate its approach to sustainable design. Realising design in an ecologically sensitive way and developing solutions from a long-term perspective is the common focus of these projects from around the world."--Jacket.

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Note

Includes index.

Contents

Introduction -- Blurring boundaries -- Low-energy systems -- Educational environments -- Lightweight and tensile structures -- Alternative structures -- Urban dimensions -- Earth moves -- Ways forward.

ISBN

9783764372200
3764372206

LCCN

2007933207
9783764372200

OCLC

ocn174131549
174131549
SCSB-9243886

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library