Foreword -- How do green buildings pay? -- The risks and benefits of green design -- Green buildings and the UK property industry -- Market advantage through green design -- The relevance of green buildings to the procurement and marketability of offices -- Achieving institutional levels of office design through sustainable approaches -- Balancing human, energy and building costs -- Mistral Building, Reading -- PowerGen Building, Coventry -- Daimler Chrysler Building, Berlin -- Leeds City Office Park -- The environmental building, The Building Research Establishment, Watford -- Barclaycard Headquarters, Northampton -- The importance of the school to learning -- Design guidance for green schools -- John Cabot City Technology College, Bristol -- Greenwich Millennium Village Primary School -- Queen's Building, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford

Green buildings are specifically designed to reduce the level of resources consumed, whether energy, raw materials or water. Using case studies of commercial and university buildings, examines how different approaches to green design can produce more sustainable patterns of development. The case studies are described by their designers and sometimes also by the client. Concludes that green buildings do pay for themselves in financial terms, and that green buildings lead to enhanced satisfaction by users which will boost productivity. This edition features chapters on green schools including: the importance of school buildings to learning; design guidance for schools and two case studies of best practice.