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Photovoltaics

It is high time to break open the difficult and complex relationship between high quality architecture on the one side and the requirements of energy-conscious structural engineering the other so that a new language of design can arise. This addition to the DETAIL Practice series clearly demonstrates how the technical, aesthetic and engineering integration of solar systems into buildings can work. The building legislation chapter, a glossary as well as supplementary sources and indexes serve to further knowledge of the subject. Exemplary and realised project examples of different installation variations on roofs and facades round out the book. More at www.detail.de/www.detail.de/p-photovoltaics

Energy Manual

The "Energy Manual" offers a highly extensive overview of the various sectors within sustainable construction, from the large to the small-scale – covering urban space/infrastructure, building envelopes and technology, right up to choice of materials and the sensible shaping of integral planning processes. It therefore represents an established reference work and daily work tool. Incorporating renewable energy in buildings and using renewable, state-of-the-art materials is dealt with in detail. Twenty example buildings clarify how sustainable architecture can look. More at http://www.detail.de/cm-energy

DETAIL Green

DETAIL Green is the specialist journal for all aspects of sustainable planning and construction. It brings together the many different strands of modern technology and provides orientation in the realm of innovative products and concepts, an area that has become almost unfathomable because of its sheer diversity. DETAIL Green has a strong practical application. It presents a detailed discussion of international certificates of sustainability on the basis of actual building projects, as well as providing essential information on building standards and the scope for financing schemes and obtaining support for them.

DETAIL - Review of Architecture

DETAIL is one of the world´s most influential architectural publications. The English edition is published six times per year and presents stimulating up-to-date, informative material for design and planning. Specially prepared detailed scale drawings, supplemented by text and comprehensive keys offer a unique opportunity to study the very best in contemporary architecture. Browse through an extract of the current issue at www.detail.de/current-detail

in DETAIL Small Structures

Waiting shelters, kiosks, market stalls, bus stops, call boxes, toilets, advertising columns, ticket booths, portable tents or housing units, emergency housing, tourist information – the list of small, self-contained, functional constructions has almost no end. One finds them on the nearest street corner, yet rarely awake architectural interest. Instead of gazing at the big, architectural attractions, a lot of potential for architects is hidden in the quality assurance of the everyday design of these small and sometimes positively charming necessities. Because these small constructions often stand directly in the area of conflict between architecture and product design, this addition to the in DETAIL series was created to span the gap between both professions. More at www.detail.de/small

Flat Roof Construction Manual

The flat roof, beloved by architects and often described as 'the fifth facade', is designed mainly to protect the space beneath it from the weather. Integrating a flat roof as a green roof terrace, publicly-accessible area or even as a profitable solar panel roof optimises the profits and benefits derived from the building. Because professional implementation of such roofs is in practice not always as simple as it sounds, this publication gives planners the basic building rules and an overview of the kinds of flat roof usages, structures and standards. In addition to the most important norms, rules and standards, construction plans of the main connection points round out this publication.

DETAIL Green Books: A life cycle approach to buildings

The demands made on buildings have risen enormously. Subjects such as climate change, resource conservation, demographic change and value stability have to be considered at an early design stage. Time horizons have also expanded: in addition to the construction phase, design increasingly covers the whole life cycle of buildings, including maintenance, renovation and deconstruction. More at www.detail.de/green-books