Books Received - January 2012
Sustainable and Resilient Communities - A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions
Stephen Coyle
John Wiley & Sons | Hardback | 416 pp. | £57.50
Jacqueline Hoyer, Wolfgang Dickhaut, Lukas Kronawitter, Björn Weber
Jovis | Softcover | 144 pp. | £28.00
The Vertical Garden - From Nature to the City, Revised and updated
Patrick Blanc
W.W Norton & Company | Hardcover | 208 pp. | £39.99
Operational and embodied carbon in new build housing - A reappraisal
Toby Balson, Flavie Lowres, Katie Johnson
NHBC Foundation | Softcover | 30 pp. | available online
Toby Balson, Andrew Gemmell
NHBC Foundation | Softcover | 35 pp. | available online
A number of publications have also been released by BRE:
BRE, Bio-resins in construction, A review of current and future developments, by Ed Suttie.
Potential for reducing carbon emissions from commercial and public-sector buildings, by Christine Pout and Fiona MacKenzie, BRE.
Flood-resilient building, Part 1: Legislation, planning, flood risk assessment and performance of buildings, by Stephen Garvin, BRE.
Flood-resilient building, Part 2: Building in flood-risk areas and designing flood-resilient buildings, by Stephen Garvin, BRE.
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