Book description
Retrofit for Purpose examines a range of state-of-the-art non-domestic retrofit projects. Its chapters explore common challenges, offer practical solutions and provide a clarion-call to architects and clients for better, smarter retrofit.
Twelve case studies focus as much on the transformation of usability and image as on the improvements in the energy and resource use of non-domestic buildings. While an essay section places these projects into a wider context, suggesting that despite the importance of sharing and analysing data, there is more to retrofit than just energy efficiency.
The authors take a range of other retrofit variables: from client ambition to tenure, budget, use type, age, context, fashion and fiscal arrangements and assess how retrofit can be made affordable, how it fits in with wider government policy and how performance can be measured.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
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Essays
- 1 RETROFIT IN PRACTICE
- 2 ENERGY PERFORMANCE IN USE AND GOVERNMENT POLICY
- 3 SPEND TO MAKE FINANCING COMMERCIAL RETROFITS
- 4 FROM POST-MORTEM TO LIFE SUPPORT BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AS A DESIGN TOOL
- 5 EVALUATING RETROFIT PERFORMANCE A PROCESS MAP
- 6 NON-DOMESTIC RETROFIT PROJECTS IN GERMANY AND THE USA
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Case Studies
- 1 199 BISHOPSGATE, London
- 2 ELIZABETH II COURT, Winchester
- 3 FOUNDRY STUDIOS, London
- 4 SOMERSET HOUSE EAST WING, London
- 5 STABLE BLOCK, MORDEN HALL PARK, Surrey
- 6 MORAY COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS, Elgin
- 7 PERCY GEE BUILDING, STUDENTS’ UNION, Leicester
- 8 MILDMAY COMMUNITY CENTRE, London
- 9 GOLDEN LANE ESTATE LEISURE CENTRE, London
- 10 WESTBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL, Westcliff-on-Sea
- 11 GUY’S HOSPITAL TOWER OVERCLAD, London
- Contributors
- Further Reading
- Image Credits
Product information
- Title: Retrofit for Purpose
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2019
- Publisher(s): RIBA Publishing
- ISBN: 9781000705089
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