Sustainability

A holistic guide for you and your practice to deliver sustainable projects and meet the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.

This must-have book on designing with aluminium showcases its primary benefits: flexibility, durability and its sustainable properties.

Happy by Design reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explain/show poor design can have the opposite effect.

It's time to act. Make a difference with this accessible guide to designing sustainable architecture. Learn what is needed and when in a step-by-step process with easy-to-understand images.

A highly illustrated and updated guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes.

A unique compendium of circular architecture, exploring comprehensively and in detail all the questions and challenges that architects and engineers face with designs that include the re-use of entire parts and components of disused buildings.

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building typologies to understand the relationships between building densities and the amount of land and infrastructure required to support them.

Bamboo is in the spotlight as a potential building material in the current pursuit of a CO2-neutral society, due to its rapid maturation and excellent mechanical properties. The book shows benefits of using bamboo as an alternative or replacement for wood.

This book includes over 250 floor plans, sections, sketches and elevations for off-grid homes, as well as the construction details on every project.

This is the first comprehensive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture at any major institution globally.