[Lapg] NEW BOOK /Passive Solar Architecture Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows by David A. Bainbridge, Ken Haggard

Mon Aug 8 07:09:12 PDT 2011

Passive Solar Architecture
Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows
by David A. Bainbridge, Ken Haggard ( Margie Bushman and I took our PDC 
with Ken and his wife Polly in 1997 in Ojai)
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/passive_solar_architecture:hardcover

"Passive Solar Architecture is a comprehensive technical guide to 
building comfortable, vibrant, efficient homes and commercial buildings. 
Whether you are in the market for technical tips to maximize a 
microclimate or a systems-thinking approach to building design, this 
book is an ideal read for architects, building engineers, homebuilders 
and green building enthusiasts alike."
—Jen Boynton, Editor in Chief, TriplePundit.com

New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and 
cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, 
sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate.

In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s 
solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the 
keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources 
for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting.

Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as 
well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both 
overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to 
successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in 
which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off.

Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable 
building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical 
roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce 
more energy and other resources than they use.

About the Authors

David A. Bainbridge
David A. Bainbridge first worked on community design, passive solar 
heating and cooling, building codes, and solar rights at the innovative 
design firm Living Systems. He described his first water-wall solar home 
and the Village Homes solar subdivision in Solar House Designs in 1978. 
Founder of the Passive Solar Institute, and recipient of the ASES 
Passive Pioneer Award in 2004, Bainbridge consults on a wide range of 
residential and commercial projects and has completed several solar 
projects on his own homes. He is currently Associate Professor of 
Sustainable Management at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. 
He lives in San ...

Ken Haggard
Ken Haggard, formerly an architecture professor at California 
Polytechnic, is an architect and principal in the San Luis 
Sustainability Group. Since the late sixties, Haggard has designed more 
than 200 solar buildings, from homes to large commercial and 
institutional buildings—as well as the first permitted straw bale 
building in California. An active member of the American and 
International Solar Energy Societies, he received the Passive Pioneer 
Award from ASES in 1999 and was made a fellow of ASES in 2000. His 
office and home—in Santa Margarita, California—are passive solar, off 
grid, and straw bale.

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Kenneth Haggard is a registered architect in the states of California 
and Florida with 32 years of experience in urban design and 
architecture. For the past 26 years, he has been a principal in San Luis 
Sustainability Group (SLSG).
http://www.slosustainability.com/Personnel%20page/kenbio_ra.html

Known as a pioneer in passive solar design, Haggard has designed 
numerous residential and commercial projects with an emphasis on making 
the best use of the energy and materials available on-site. In 1972, he 
served as architect and senior researcher for the first passive solar 
house in California. In 1978, he co-wrote "Passive Solar Handbook for 
California," a guide for architects interested in the passive solar 
design. With colleague Polly Cooper, Haggard helped renew serious 
interest in straw bale construction in California by designing the 
first-permitted straw bale house in the state.

Haggard's active pursuit of sustainable architecture techniques has 
earned several awards, including:
· Passive Pioneer Award (with Polly Cooper), American Solar Energy 
Society, 1996;
· First Place Winning Design (as a team member), American Institute of 
Architects' AIA/UIA International Competition on Sustainable 
Communities, 1993;
· Best Paper Award, World Solar Congress, Denver, Colo., 1989;
· Honor Award (with Christie Coffin and Polly Cooper) in California 
Energy Efficient Office Building Competition, 1976.

Haggard is affiliated with several professional organizations. He was on 
the Ethics Committee Board of the American Solar Energy Society's 
Passive Solar Division, and he was a member of the National Organizing 
Committee for the Solar 90 National Solar Conference. Haggard co-founded 
Sustainable Design Associates, a national consortium of sustainable 
development professionals. He was a plenary speaker at the 11th National 
Passive Solar Conference and was invited to serve on the Energy Element 
Technical Review Committee for San Luis Obispo County from 1993 to 1994.

Haggard received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Texas 
A&M University. He studied architecture at North Carolina State 
University, receiving a bachelor's degree with honors, then earned a 
master's degree in urban design from the University of Pennsylvania.

Haggard has authored several publications in addition to "Passive Solar 
Handbook for California." With Polly Cooper, he wrote two chapters on 
roof pond passive systems in "The Passive Solar Energy Book" by Edward 
Mazria. He and SLSG's Scott Clark wrote the source book for CASBA, the 
California Strawbuilders Association. He has written dozens of papers 
presented to national conferences on passive solar energy, aesthetics 
and sustainability as well as a research evaluation of a system of 
natural air conditioning.

Haggard taught architecture and environmental design at California 
Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, for more than 15 years. While 
at Cal Poly, he acted as director of the Renewable Energy Institute from 
1984 to 1986. He continues to give talks to professionals and the public 
on sustainable design. He also conducts straw bale construction 
workshops so that people interested in the field can get hands-on 
experience.

HE AUTHOR: DAVID A. BAINBRIDGE
http://www.desertrestore.org/author.asp

David A. Bainbridge was educated at the University of California in San 
Diego, Earth Sciences, and U.C. Davis in Ecology. He has published 11 
books, contributed or written 12 book chapters on restoration, resource 
management, and sustainable building, and more than 300 articles and 
reports, for audiences ranging from Tree Planter’s Notes to the Wall 
Street Journal.

He started his first business while he was in graduate school, creating 
one of the first companies involved in environmental impact analysis and 
reporting in California. His interest in environmental planning led to a 
position at Living Systems, an innovative design firm in Winters, 
California where he was involved in research and development of passive 
solar systems and guidelines for energy efficient development. He was 
recruited by the California Energy Commission, where he was honored for 
his work on the state solar tax credits, and later created the Passive 
Solar Institute. His early research was honored by the American Solar 
Energy Society when he was selected as the passive solar pioneer for 2004.

Frustrated by subsidies, regulations and incentives that favored fossil 
fuels instead of solar energy he turned his attention to the problems of 
sustainable resource management of dry lands. This interest was kindled 
in part by his work on his parents land in Colorado. An interest in 
agroforestry and ethnobotany led to research on traditional resource 
management in drylands. He was hired to assist development of the 
interdisciplinary Dry Lands Research Institute at U.C. Riverside, where 
he was coauthor of the groundbreaking guide to sustainable agriculture 
for California in 1991. His desert restoration work then led him to San 
Diego State University and finally to Alliant International University.

His special interest in restoration has been categorizing and assessing 
disturbance and super-efficient irrigation. He has developed instruments 
for remote site infiltration studies, a low cost recording soil 
penetrometer, ground profile gauges, and explored integrated impact 
calculations. His irrigation research has pursued traditional irrigation 
techniques, buried clay pot and wick irrigation, and developed new 
systems using deep pipe, porous capule and porous tubing irrigation.

He has developed and taught courses on sustainable management, 
restoration ecology, sustainable resource management, environmental 
accounting, and ecotourism; and currently coordinates the concentration 
in “sustainable management” at the Marshall Goldsmith School of 
Management. He has received perfect 4.0 ratings for his teaching and a 
presidential award for service to the university. He enjoys camping, 
canoeing and cycling in his time away from the computer and classroom, 
and is working on several books on resource management.