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Author Guerra Santin, Olivia.

Title Environmental indicators for building design : development and application on Mexican dwellings / Olivia Guerra Santin.

Publication Info. Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sustainable urban areas, 1574-6410 ; 16
Sustainable urban areas ; 16.
Note "This research started as part of the ATLAS project for a MSc thesis in the Urban Environmental Management programme of the Wageningen University of Agriculture"--Page 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-123).
Contents The approach -- Reference dwellings -- Anaysis of Mexican, Peruvian and Dutch housing -- Improving Mexican housing -- Recommendations for new housing in Mexico -- Appendices.
Summary Construction will always be needed, and will always consume resources. In developing an approach for assessing sustainable building, the Three Step Strategy (in the Netherlands named Trias Ecologica) has proven to be useful. This title looks at this Strategy.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ecological houses -- Mexico.
Ecological houses.
Mexico.
Dwellings -- Energy conservation -- Mexico.
Dwellings -- Energy conservation.
Sustainable buildings -- Mexico.
Sustainable buildings.
Ecological houses -- Mexico -- Design and construction -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Sustainable buildings -- Mexico -- Design and construction -- Case studies.
Sustainable living -- Mexico.
Sustainable living.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author IOS Press.
Other Form: Print version: Guerra Santin, Olivia. Environmental indicators for building design. Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press, ©2008 9781586038946 158603894X (DLC) 2009285400 (OCoLC)244057649
ISBN 9781607503583
1607503581
9781586038946 paperback
158603894X paperback