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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] NEW BOOK /Passive Solar Architecture Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows by David A. Bainbridge, Ken Haggard
  • Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:08:24 -0700

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.




  • [permaculture] NEW BOOK /Passive Solar Architecture Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows by David A. Bainbridge, Ken Haggard, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 08/08/2011

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