Environmental Design: An Introduction For Architects And Engineers

Environmental Design Environmental Design An introduction for architects and engineers Second edition Edited by Randall Thomas Max Fordham & Partners London and New York First published 1996 by E & FN Spon 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Second edition © 1999 Edited by Randall Thomas, Max Fordham & Partners All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express of implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Environmental design:an introduction for architects and engineers/ edited by Randall Thomas. —2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Architecture—Environmental aspects. 2. Environmental engineering. 3. City planning. 4. Engineering design. I. Thomas, Randall. NA2542.35.E575 1999 720′.47–dc21 98–46545 CIP ISBN 0-203-47800-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-78624-6 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-419-23760-7 (Print Edition) CONTENTS Contributors vi Foreword by Edward Cullinan vii Preface by Max Fordham viii Apologies and acknowledgements ix Units and abbreviations x Part One 1 1 Strategies MAX FORDHAM 2 2 Comfort, health and environmental physics BILL WATTS 6 3 Buildings and energy balances BILL WATTS and RANDALL THOMAS 30 4 Building planning and design RANDALL THOMAS 37 5 Site planning RANDALL THOMAS 57 6 Materials and construction RANDALL THOMAS 71 7 Energy sources RAMIRO GODOY 91 8 Lighting RANDALL THOMAS 107 9 Engineering thermal comfort RANDALL THOMAS 123 Water, waste disposal and appliances MIKE ENTWISLE and RANDALL THOMAS 162 10 v Summary RANDALL THOMAS Part Two 171 173 11 RMC International Headquarters BART STEVENS 174 12 Grove Road Primary School BILL WATTS 183 13 Queens Building, De Montfort University EDITH BLENNERHASSETT 188 14 The Charles Cryer Studio Theatre COLIN HAMILTON 208 15 Sutton House RICHARD QUINCEY 215 16 The Environmental Building, Building Research Establishment RANDALL THOMAS and BART STEVENS 222 17 The Millennium Centre, Dagenham RANDALL THOMAS 245 18 The Bedales Theatre RANDALL THOMAS 252 Appendices 257 A Environmental data and the psychrometric chart RANDALL THOMAS 258 B Calculation procedures RANDALL THOMAS 267 C Acoustics RANDALL THOMAS 271