SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN OF HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS

Rainwater Management in Compliance With Sustainable Design of Buildings

Continuous growth of population and consequent growing need for drinking water is a global problem. Effective use of rainwater for for toilet flushing, laundry, gardening or washing thus saving about 50% of drink water. Overall, urban drainage presents a classic set of modern environmental challenges: the need for cost-effective and socially acceptable technical improvements in existing systems...

Sustainable Design in the Healthcare Environment

Factors Influencing the Design of Spatial Layouts in Healthcare Buildings

There has been a significant increase in capital building programmes in the National Health Service (NHS) since the publication in 2000 of the Government policy on modernisation of health and care delivery in the UK. With regard to physical capacity, the target was to create over 100 new hospitals by 2010 and 500 new one-stop primary care centres. The initiative was seen as a way to modernise t...

Evaluation of Environmental Sustainability Components and Architecture Design of Iranian Educational Buildings

Aims & Backgrounds: Today, environmental developments, climate change, and energy problems are major challenges in the world. Although Iran has been at the beginning of sustainable development regarding the buildings sustainability evaluation systems and has developed general guidelines and standards in this area, no effective action has been taken about schools. The present study aim is to det...

ArDOT: A TOOL TO OPTIMISE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN OF BUILDINGS

Environmental design of buildings involves ‘finding the optimum’ solution satisfying predefined objective(s) (e.g., reduction in operating/capital cost, maximisation of daylighting etc.). A number of computer based simulation models exist to assist professionals in finding this optimum through building performance assessment. Contemporary practices involving building simulation require enormous...