Adventures in Engineering

"One of the new breed of design engineering companies that have emerged on the scene in the past few years, in the 12 years since its foundation in 1999 it is perhaps Fluid Structures that has made the biggest impression.

Working with many of the UK’s leading architects and under the guiding hand of its founder David Crookes, the company has produced an impressive sequence of innovative structural solutions, characterised by a bold use of materials often used in new ways. Working from first principles and with an extensive knowledge of new systems and techniques, Fluid Structures has created structures in aluminium, glass, masonry, steel and timber, many of which are explored and explained here for the first time, each accompanied by a wry commentary on their genesis and production.

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In-house publication - Low Energy

This booklet covers the following main topics:

What good passive design means.
Energy saving 'technologies'.
Some of the key points regarding BREEAM (British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), PassivHaus (PH), the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH).

It therefore pulls together many of the key issues and points that underpin delivering the following:

Building with high performance fabric to underpin energy efficiency and user comfort.
Low carbon technologies which can meet the residual energy demand.
Good scores on the wider environmental criteria of BREEAM and CSH.

This book can be purchased directly from Fluid Structures.

Retail Price: £5 including postage and packaging.

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