- Paperback - Number of Pages: 284 pages
- Dimensions: 172 x 244 x 19mm - 520g
- Publication date: 08 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
- Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
You might have thought that 30 years after the Saudi Oil Crisis there would be a glut of regularly updated comprehensive student, graduate, practitioner texts on energy issues in the built environment. There aren't! Which is why this one is so welcome. It summarises a lot of the important issues of cost, supply, taxation and policy as well as providing a lot of worked examples on everything from lighting layouts to heat recovery and a chapter on examples of passively designed buildings. It's good - and a rarity, a really useful, well written, timely textbook. It will be invaluable to students of building services although the number of worked examples risks spoon-feeding. That won't put them off! There isn't much evidence of encouragement of creativity and I would have liked to see more challenges to the reader to address sustainability issues in their designs, not just the politics although that is a start. That said for a student or practitioner with creativity in mind - it's a very good start. Dr Beggs is probably hoping...