Preface -- Part A Positions -- 1 Global change -- 2 Energy change -- 3 Architecture and sustainability -a difficult relationship -- 4 Doing things right - on efficiency and sustainability -- 5 Solar Architecture -- 6 Planning and building in life cycles -- Part B Planning -- 1 Fundamentals -- Global boundary conditions -- Energy -- Climate and comfort -- 2 Urban space and infrastructure -- Land use -- Planning to suit the location -- Infrastructure and technical services -- 3 Building envelope -- Maintaining and gaining heat -- Avoiding overheating -- Decentralised ventilation -- Using the daylight -- Generating electricity -- 4 Building services -- Sustainable building services -- Heating -- Cooling -- Mechanical ventilation -- Optimising the artificial lighting -- Generating electricity -- 5 Materials -- Heat flow -- Embodied energy -- Materials in the life cycle -- 6 Strategies -- Energy concepts -- Politics, legislation, statutory instruments -- Planning process -- Sustainable architecture -- Diagnosis system for sustainable building quality (DSQ) -- Part C Case studies -- Project examples 1 to 20 -- Part D Appendix -- Parameters -- Climate data -- LCA data -- Statutory instruments, directives, standards -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Subject index.