1. What is sustainability?

2. What is green building?

3. Basic principles

4. Major design issues

Case Studies Of Sustainable Design (07-Mar-03)

0. Sustainable Design [video: 21 min.]

• 1. The smart car
• 2. Freeplay power
• 3. The remarkable pencil

• Pennsylvania's First Green Building [video][website]
• NEXT 21 (Osaka Gas Experimental Housing)
• Duisburg Nord Landscape Park, Germany

• Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse [web-based case study]
• Hong Kong Wetland Park (Visitor Centre)
• Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
• Veterinary Laboratory at Tai Lung, Sheung Shui [brief info]

• AIA, 1999. Environmental Resource Guide on CD-ROM [computer file]: includes 1997 and 1998 updates, American Institute of Architects, John Wiley, New York. [AV 720.47 E61 C]
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1999. Guidelines for Creating High-Performance Green Buildings, Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [720.4709748 G7] [http://www.gggc.state.pa.us/publictn/gbguides.html]
• European Commission, Directorate General XVII for Energy, 1999. A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design, James & James, London. [720.47 G79 E]
• Mendler, S. and Odell, W., 2000. The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design, John Wiley & Sons, New York. [720.47 M53]
• RAIA, 2002. BDP Environment Design Guide [CD-ROM], Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Red Hill, A.C.T., Australia. [AVS 720.47 E61 R8]
• SBIC, 2001. Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-energy, Resource-efficient Homes, Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, Washington, D.C. [696 G79]
• Sustainable Building Technical Manual: Green Building Design, Construction and Operations, Public Technology, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1996. [721.0467 S964] [http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/articles/ptipub.shtml]

• Ken Yeang (T.R. Hamzah & Yeang): Bioclimatic Skyscrapers [videorecording, 10 min.], Pidgeon Audio Visual Video production, produced by Monica Pidgeon, Pidgeon Audio Visual, London, 1994. [AV 720.47 K33]
• Eco-architecture [videorecording, 23 min.], Sound Venture Productions, Ottawa, Canada, 1997. [AV 728.047 E19 S]
• Sustainable Design [videorecording, 21 min.], (1. The smart car -- 2. Freeplay power -- 3. The remarkable pencil.), Classroom Video, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. [AV 620.0042 S96]
• Pennsylvania's First Green Building [videorecording, 27 min.], Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 1999.

• Sustainable Architecture and Building Design  http://arch.hku.hk/research/BEER/sustain.htm
• Case Studies  http://arch.hku.hk/research/BEER/casestud.htm