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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 20

Energy Efficient Lifestyle

"Coming to a suburb near you any day now: the 'green house'. The 'green house' is a sustainable energy-efficient house, steadily developed as a housing concept since the early 1980s as scientists realised the dangers imposed by global warming." Discuss the response of "designers and builders worldwide" to "the effects of global warming on human shelter" focusing on the design of the Australian 'green house'.

REFERENCES

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Ward, Peter. "House with nous", Australian, 26th February 2002, page13.

"2002 Architecture Award winners announced", RAIA Media release, 24th October 2002.

Saunders, Alan. "Architecture Awards", ABC comfort zone, 01/11/2003
See your Lecturer for the audio copy of this programme.

"2003 Architecture Award winners announced", RAIA Media release, 6th November 2003.

"Creative energy", Advertiser, 21st June 2003, page 9.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Daniels, K. Technology of ecological building: basic principles and measures, examples and ideas.Basel, Boston, Birkhauser Verlag, 1997.
Main Collection 720.47 D186t

Bennetts, H. Environmental issues and house design in Australia: images from theory and practice.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
Main Collection 09PH B472 copy 2

Hollo, N. Warm house cool house: inspirational designs for low-energy housing. Marrickville, N.S.W., Choice Books, 1995.
Main Collection 728.0472 H745w

Lawson, Bill. Building materials, energy and the environment: towards ecologically sustainable development. Red Hill, A.C.T., Royal Australian Institute of Architects, 1996.
Main Collection 691 L425b

Quarry, Neville. Award winning Australian architecture. Roseville, N.S.W. , Craftsman House, 1997.
Main collection 720.994 Q27a

Slessor, C. Eco-Tech: sustainable architecture and high technology. London, Thames and Hudson, 1997.
Main Collection 720.47 S632e

Urban air pollution in Australia: an inquiry by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Parkville, Vic.,The Academy, 1997.
Hosted by the Environment Australia web site section on Air Quality.

Williamson, Terry J., Radford, Anthony, Bennetts, Helen. Understanding sustainable architecture. London, Spon Press, 2003.

Yeang, Ken. Designing with nature: the ecological basis for architectural design. New York, McGraw-Hill, c1995.
Main collection 720.47 Y38d

Other Articles
Remember that you can use a number of databases to find articles on the topic. The articles listed below are merely a selection, find others through Australia/New Zealand reference centre, ElectricLibrary and LexisNexis. Click here for suggestions for quick ways of effective searching.

"Ballarat builder has won an award for the most energy efficient house which produces a $12 winter gas bill", Building innovation & construction technology, no. 6, April 1999.

Brown, Steve, "Building with low indoor air polluting materials and appliances", Built Environment Innovation & Construction Technology, no. 17, February 2001.

Coldicutt, S., Williamson, T. J., Penney, R. E. C. "Contextual theory or universal formula: what type of theoretical approach can provide thermal preference information for designers?", Architectural science and design in harmony:Joint ANZAScA/ADTRA Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney,10-12th July, 1990. Kensington, N.S.W., School of Architecture, University of New South Wales, 1990, pages 39-46.

"Regulators are holding back ESD principles in housing", Building innovation & construction technology, no. 9, October 1999.

"RAIA Launches Campaign for ESD in Building Regulations", Built Environment Innovation & Construction Technology, no. 15, October 2000.

"Greedy Australia ? Unsustainable Consumption", Built Environment Innovation & Construction Technology, no. 24, August 2002.
Summarises key issues from the 200-page State of the Environment Report Card. For each issue 'the challenge' is briefly established, followed by 'towards a solution'.

Web sites
Architecture.com.au
The Project Gallery provides illustrations and information on RAIA award winning projects since 1981 including the 2002 Award winners.
To Browse, from Display options: select a state, category of entrant or year of award, then click on building category, Residential, Public Buildings, Urban Design or Commercial.
Alternatively, click on Advanced Search to activate the search box and Enter a keyword, architect's name, style etc. and select what is to be searched from categories or year.

Home page of Emilis Prelgauskas - architect.
"While a substantial part of building energy efficiency and ecologically sustainable development relies on the hardware, appliances and systems; just as important are the human contribution. The way people live, behave, and utilise their environment decides whether all the architect's efforts are successful, or alternatively are in vain. The best ESD project can be compromised by unthinking consumerist behaviour".
Under ESD Principles, see "Demand Management" See also Greenhouse and Proving energy efficiency sections.

BDP Environmental Design Guide
From the RAIA, BDP Online addresses general environmental issues, design strategies, environmental technologies, products, materials and case studies.

Australian Greenhouse Office
A Federal government initiative "Leading Australia's greenhouse action to achieve effective sustainable results".
Community and Household - provides links to Your Home: Design for lifestyle and the future which includes a Consumer guide, addressing issues for the consumer to consider, and a Technical manual providing a series of online fact sheets for Passive design; Water use; Materials used; Energy use; and Site issues, in domestic architecture in Australia.
Energy and Transport - provides links to Renewable energy including In the Home, and to Energy Efficiency covering Appliances & Equipment, and Buildings.

Greenpower
Home page for clean energy alternatives, includes greenpower At Home, and Resources which provide Links to related sites.

SEDA. Home: reduce your household energy consumption by up to 40%.
Design ideas for energy-efficient housing.

Selector.com
From the RAIA, a guide to online information on products for the building industry.

Energy SA Sustainable Energy Homepage.
     The state government has announced that from January 2003, all new houses will be required to achieve a high level of energy efficiency.
     PROGRAMS for Households includes links to information on Household Appliances and Water Heating, as well as House Design.
     ADVISORY includes Residential with advice on House Design, House Energy Rating Systems, including NAThers, FirstRate, and House Energy Rating Requirement for links to the Planning SA site for information on achieving Energy efficient homes.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Solar and energy efficient design", vol.4, pages 466-483. "Daylighting", vol.3, pages 288-291. "Envelopes, building", vol.2, pages 352-372. "Mechanical systems", vol.3, pages 357-381. "Air quality", vol. 1, pages 137-148.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology. "Solar energy", pages 226-227. "Light", pages 142-150.

Encyclopedia of energy technology and the environment. Wiley, New York, 1995.
Reference collection 621.042 B622e
"Building systems", vol. 1, pages 464-479, includes Occupant needs, Passive conditioning and lighting.

The following handbooks present guidelines for architectural design over a range of activities, building types, and environments. These follow European or North American precedents, remember to check with Australian codes.

Architect's data. (Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Publishers, 2000.
Reference collection 721.0212 N482a.3
"Solar architecture", pages 101-104. "Thermal insulation", pages 111-116. "Daylight", pages 151-165.

Metric handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed. Oxford, Architectural Press, 1999.
Reference collection 721.0212 N532.2
Section 38, "Thermal environment". Section 39, "Light".

Time-saver standards for architectural design data; the reference of architectural fundamentals. 7th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Reference collection 721.0212 C157t.7
Part I; "Architectural fundamentals", includes Bioclimatic control, pages 23-34, Solar control, pages 37-62, Daylighting design, pages 65-74, Natural ventilation, pages 77-84, Indoor air quality, pages 87-100.

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Reference collection 712.0212 H313t.2

Finding MORE INFORMATION on the topic

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For an initial search select Basic Search, then from Search by: select Keywords (using and, or, not). Using the Boolean operators will allow you to make your search effective. In the Search for: bar type words to describe your topic, then click on Search. With the AND operator between your search terms, the Catalogue will find records which include each search word. For example:

energy AND efficient AND house finds 4 records which include each of these words somewhere in the record.

When there are alternative words for a concept, enclose the words within round brackets ( ) and type OR between each word. Where you want both singular and plural forms of a word, truncate the word and add a question mark ? to the stem. For example:

(hous? OR architecture OR home?) AND efficien? AND (power OR energy)

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Architecture and energy conservation
Architecture, Domestic
Indoor air pollution

Another way to use Subject Headings is through the Guided keyword search.
From Search by: select Subject, and in the search bar(s) type words that you know from useful subject headings. For example:

energy architecture [leave the default at] all of these
AND
conservation environmental [leave the default at] all of these
This search finds 21 records which include these two pairs of words in a subject heading or its subheadings.

Alternatively, if you are interested in environmental or conservation aspects of energy and architecture, change the default, for example:

energy architecture [leave the default at] all of these
AND
conservation environmental [change the default to] any of these where either of the words must appear in a Subject Heading. This is a broader search and finds 78 records.

Go to What does the Library have on my topic? for ways of improving your search results

Use INDEXES and DATABASES to find what articles or papers have been written on your topic

These databases use Boolean operators, in most cases it is safe to use the words AND or OR (with brackets) but there may be other codes used for truncation, such as an asterisk *. Search notes are provided for each database but if you don't get the results you expect, please check with the Architecture Librarian, Kay Leverett.

The databases listed below cover information on aspects of energy and architecture, indoor climate and building materials.

For Australian material use -
ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text of articles provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
Australia/New Zealand reference centre -indexes articles in journals and major newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.      click here for search notes
BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
ElectricLibrary - includes full text of major Australian newspapers, some general encyclopedias and journals.     click here for search notes
ENGINE - from the Institution of Engineers, Australia, indexes articles and papers published by the Institution. For search notes see ARCH

International sources may give you other ideas, such as -
EAI: Expanded Academic Index - covers a wide range of journals. Provides full text for many of the articles. click here for search notes
Avery Index - an international index for architectural and design journals. click here for search notes
GEOBASE - an international index of articles, books and research reports on urban geography. For search techniques see ARCH
LexisNexis - a huge international database; includes full text Australian newspapers. click here for search notes

This is only a small selection of possible databases, if you don't find what you need here, please come and see me, Kay Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659) or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au