Greening existing buildings
This GreenSource guide explains how to transform existing buildings into more energy-efficient, resource-conserving green buildings. The book provides a clear process that guides you, step-by-step, through each phase of moving building operations and maintenance toward the goal of a green-certified...
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New York, NY
McGraw-Hill
2010
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| Series: | McGraw-Hill's GreenSource series
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Table of Contents:
- The sustainability revolution
- The challenge of greening existing buildings
- Markets for greening existing buildings
- Understanding green building rating systems
- The business case for greening existing buildings
- Costs of greening existing buildings
- Meeting the energy retrofit challenge
- Greening site management and reducing water use
- Greening the inside of the building
- LEED certification challenges and approaches
- Lessons learned : ten best practices for greening existing buildings
- Greening the future
- Case studies.