Passive Solar Architecture is solar energy and resource optimizations applied to our built environment. Therefore passive solar is a highly integrated endeavor affecting the design professions, architecture, city and regional planners, structural, mechanical and civil engineers, landscape architects and product designers. As such passive solar design is equal parts art, science and technology.
The amount of building in human society is prodigious and inevitable. Hence if passive solar applications can become a pervasive and rigorous part of these efforts we can have hugely beneficial effects on our looming problems of fossil fuel depletion and climate disruption as well as producing more comfortable and joyous buildings and surroundings.
| Authors: | Ken Haggard, Principal Architect San Luis Sustainability Group Professor Emeritus California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo |
David Bainbridge Sustainable Management Marshall Goldsmith School of Management www.sustainabi1ityleader.org |
| Rachel Aljilani LEED AP, B.Arch., MBA www.slosustainability.com |
With assistance from Polly Cooper, Francis de Winter, Phil Niles, Scott Clark and Erin Scholl |
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Editor: |
Yogi Goswami, PhD.,P.E. Clean Energy Research Center College of Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, Florida USA |
Reviewed by: Barbara Graham, ISES John Reynolds, ASES |
Third in a series of pocket reference books, the Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference adds to the publications provided by ISES enabling readers to make informed decisions, calculations or just become more knowledgeable in this important field.
Monica Oliphant
ISES President
(2008 - 2009)
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Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference Book
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