In
his seminal new book, Bill Dunster demonstrates that zero-carbon, zero-waste
design doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag, and is achievable today.
This book presents a range of tools that form key ingredients in a low carbon
society. Focusing on technologies that are already in use, ZEDlife
explores both small-scale ideas (such as shelters and lighting) and large-scale
solutions in buildings and across cities. An essential resource for both
students and practitioners, ZEDlife offers an interdisciplinary approach
to sustainability, making connections to a web of technologies through
full-colour case studies of new build and retrofit projects from across the
globe.
The
argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been
timelier. This book offers a forceful challenge to the status quo and provides
workable, sustainable solutions for zero-carbon, zero-waste design.
ZEDlife : How to build a low-carbon society today
Description
Table of Contents
Part I:
Introduction
A Beginner’s Guide to ZEDlife
The ZEDlife: A call to engage
Part II: The ZEDlife Tools
The ZEDroof
Solar-charged exchangeable batteries
Low carbon transport: The ZEDbike, electric vehicles and the filling
stations of the future
Building-level energy systems: Air sourced head pumps and solar
assisted heating and cooling
District-level energy systems and food production
Retrofit of existing buildings
Rainwater harvesting and water re-use
Tool combinations
Part III: The ZEDlife in
practice
The Zero-bills home
ZEDpods
Shoreham Cement Works Holiday Park
Rehousing Somalia’s IDPs: From emergency housing to a long-term urban
solution
AfricaZED
Shanghai Expo ZED Pavillion
Higher density strategies: living under a park
One Planet Business Centre
Jingdezhen Ceramic Centre and the urban solar farm
BedZED
Conclusions
Author Description
Bill Dunster OBE is an architect. He founded ZEDfactory in 1999 and in 2010 received an OBE for Services to Sustainable Housing Design. He has taught at the Architectural Association, UCL, Kingston University, Harvard, EPFL in Lausanne, and is currently a Visiting Professor of Zero Carbon Urbanism at UCL and at Cardiff University.