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• Introduction
• Sustainability & Housing
• Planning, Community & Sustainability
• The Site & The Dwelling
• Energy Use
• Resource Conservation
• Healthy Dwellings
• Maintenance & Rehabilitation
• Finance & Management
• Useful Addresses
• Bibliography
• Selected Reference Material
• Case Studies
• Acknowledgements

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• Sustainable Housing Performance Assessment
• How to use this Guide

Chapter 1: Sustainability And Housing

• 1.1 How Housing Can Contribute To Sustainability
  • 1.1.1 Minimising climate change
  • 1.1.2 Reducing the need for physical resources
  • 1.1.3 Reducing pollution and improving air quality and health
  • 1.1.4 Creating sustainable settlements
• 1.2 How Sustainable Development Benefits Housing
  • 1.2.1 Energy efficiency
  • 1.2.2 Social inclusion
  • 1.2.3 Value for money and economic effectiveness

Chapter 2: Planning, Community And Sustainability

• 2.1 What Makes Residential Development Sustainable
  • 2.1.1 Resource use and pollution
  • 2.1.2 A cohesive community
  • 2.1.3 Residential development and jobs
• 2.2 Achieving Neighbourhood Sustainability
  • 2.2.1 Sustainability and the planning system
  • 2.2.2 Mixed land uses
  • 2.2.3 Residential densities
  • 2.2.4 Brownfield sites
  • 2.2.5 Transport considerations
  • 2.2.6 Community and sustainability
  • 2.2.7 Urban and neighbourhood design
  • 2.2.8 Rural Areas
  • 2.2.9 Partnership

Chapter 3: The Site And The Dwelling

• 3.1 Climate And Orientation
  • 3.1.1 Solar Energy: maximising passive solar gain
  • 3.1.2 Wind: Design With Form, Layout And Land Cover
  • 3.1.3 Precipitation: Design For The Effects Of Climate Change
  • 3.1.4 Temperature: Using Landcover To Modify Extremes
• 3.2 Site Contamination
• 3.3 A Sense Of Place

Chapter 4: Energy Use

• 4.1 Energy Surveying
• 4.2 The Basics Of Energy Efficient Design
  • 4.2.1 Energy conservation in the building envelope
  • 4.2.2 Daylighting and artificial lighting
  • 4.2.3 Preventing heat loss through ventilation
• 4.3 Renewable Energy
• 4.4 Energy Efficient Delivery Systems
  • 4.4.1 Communal Heating, District Heating and CHP
  • 4.4.2 Geothermal Energy
• 4.5 Energy Efficient Systems In The Dwelling

Chapter 5: Resource Conservation

• 5.1 Local Sourcing
• 5.2 Waste Minimisation And Pollution
  • 5.2.1 Construction waste
  • 5.2.2 Prefabrication to minimise waste
  • 5.2.3 Re-use and recycling
  • 5.2.4 Water conservation
  • 5.2.5 Domestic waste
  • 5.2.6 Sewage
• 5.3 Embodied Energy And Environmental Impact
• 5.4 Longevity Of Buildings, Products And Materials
  • 5.4.1 Designing building elements to be re-used
  • 5.4.2 Durable buildings, products, and materials

Chapter 6: Healthy Dwellings

• 6.1 Interaction Of Human Body With The Environment
• 6.2 Materials And Toxicity In The Home
  • 6.2.1 Timber treatment
  • 6.2.2 Finishes
  • 6.2.3 Indoor planting
• 6.3 Electromagnetic Fields (EMF’s)
• 6.4 Holistic wellbeing

Chapter 7: Issues Specific To Maintenance And Rehabilitation

• 7.1 Maintenance Issues
  • 7.1.1 The myth of “maintenance free” components
  • 7.1.2 Component lifecycles
• 7.2 Rehabilitation Issues

Chapter 8: Financial And Management Considerations

• 8.1 Financial Considerations
  • 8.1.1 Life Cycle Costing
  • 8.1.2 Life cycle comparisons
  • 8.1.3 Whole life costing and environmental considerations
  • 8.1.4 Policy implications
• 8.2 Management Considerations
  • 8.2.1 Educating the Occupier
  • 8.2.2 Procurement

Useful Addresses

• National organisations and professional bodies
• Trade associations
• Energy rating organisations
• European and worldwide contacts

Bibliography

Selected Reference Material on Sustainable Housing Design

Case Studies

• Urban Design for Social Sustainability
• Local Sourcing and Partnership
• Hybrid Renewable Energy, Reclaimed Materials
• Communal Heating, Community Inclusion
• Passive Solar Energy, Resource Conservation
• Innovative Prefabrication, Lifetime Home and Local Sourcing
• Energy Saving Rehabilitation, Ecological Specification of Materials
• Rehabilitation without Timber Treatment, Landscaping
• Rehabilitation, Energy, Tenant Choice and Participation
• Self Build, Low Embodied Energy
• Embedded Solar Sunspaces, High Insulation
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP), District Heating and Energy Strategy
• Car-free Sustainable Housing

Acknowledgements

• Steering Group
• SFHA Reading Group
• Comments on Drafts
• Acronyms