Being SUSTAINABLE
Building Systems Performance

This book details the mechanics of sustainability and the challenges of integrating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems into a high performance building in order to maximize its environmental efficiency.

The point of the book is to help readers understand the integrated relationships designers and constructors face putting a building together as a single, fully interactive, and sustainable "container" of building systems.

The book uses a graphic narrative style to visually explain the layers found in the sequence of system installations, each in support of the other, but all crowded into the same space.

The workers involved in this narrative are the engineers who size and specify each of these systems, as well as the subcontractors who must coordinate, compromise, and assemble them in the real world.

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