Books on Sustainability available to buy at RICS London Bookshop
RICS London Bookshop stocks a number of titles to help you keep up to date with the latest developments in Sustainability, including:
Green Building Materials
This book offers information on the product selection, product specification, and construction process. It features: a chapter on eco-labels, green standards, and product certification; an appendix providing reference information for sustainability standards and standards development organizations; and, more.
Price: £60.00
The CSI Construction Specifications Practical Guide
In this volume, guidelines on topics like writing quality construction specifications and product selection are meshed with best practices for managing project information, working with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery, and writing sustainable design specifications.
Price: £55.00
Green Building Project Planning & Cost Estimating
The case studies and resources in this give you practical guidance on green building, including the latest on: green building approaches, materials, rating systems, standards and guidelines, energy efficiencies, implementing energy modeling tools, and more.
Price: £70.00
Guide to Breeam
This practical, accessible guide provides a much-needed explanation of BREEAM for all building professionals, whether architects, clients, contractors or engineers.
Price: £30.00
The Eco House Manual
This manual covers every aspect of domestic renovation from heating and electrical systems through to building materials and outdoor space. Whether you want to work out the payback period on a wind turbine or find out about the most eco-friendly floor covering, all information is presented in a clear and practical format with colour photography throughout.
Price: £19.99
Environmental Construction Handbook
This book is an illustrated analysis of the various specific sustainability challenges presented by different building types. Based on rigorous research, it examines the consequences of contemporary construction methods and the ways in which their environmental impacts can be improved..
Price: £36.00
The Green Studio Handbook
Learn how to integrate green strategies into your building design. This practical handbook provides an essential introduction to green design strategies - helping you to understand how to save energy, water and material resources.
Price: £45.99
Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment
This new edition has been updated to reflect the advances and new insights on two main issues: Facilitating a dialogue between all stakeholders so that the complexity of the problem can be exposed, structured and communicated; and Understanding how to assess progress in sustainable development.
Price: £59.99
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge
This is an essential guide to understanding the future of sustainable technology. This updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.
Price: £27.99
Ecohouse
This title continues to be both a technical guide and an inspiration for thousands of industry professionals all over the world. As the need to slow climate change becomes increasingly urgent, growing numbers of people are looking to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of their buildings by using more ecologically sound techniques.
Price: £29.99
Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
This fully revised edition provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.
Price: £34.99
Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Deliver
This US publication guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's marketplace.
Price: £57.50
To buy your copies in person, please visit RICS London Bookshop
To have your copies delivered, please order online at RICS Books