Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects | Architecture

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The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed performance-based architectural projects. The book’s format follows the developmental stages of a typical architectural project; it provides a step-by-step process for addressing and integrating building sciences from first principles of human comfort materials structures and environmental systems to advanced construction systems and measures of building performance. Short chapters incorporate easy-to-understand information with hundreds of useful illustrations tables and references that explain the why as well as the how of building science. The conten…