Chapter 8Energy, Materiality and Specification
Introduction
This chapter shifts the focus from a concern with how people use their office buildings, covered in Chapter 7, to the issue of the physical performance of the buildings themselves, and how the specification process can help improve this.
Alongside look and feel, energy efficiency is fast becoming a prime feature on the new-office wish lists of many funders, developers and occupiers, driven by a desire to reduce energy costs and the need to comply with global climate change targets. As a result, developing low-energy buildings that ...
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