Energy efficient building

"This book, produced in association with Arup, the largest firm of consulting engineers in the world, explores the close relationship between architecture and engineering.". "Energy Efficient Buildings addresses the ways in which architects and engineers collaborate in the process of environmental control in buildings. From the beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, they began to work together to achieve new standards of comfort within buildings and, as a consequence, to bring about a fundamental transformation in the nature of architecture. At the beginning of the…