This book explains environmental influences on buildings and moves on to outline principales of design ,considering the infleunce of any one set of choises on other areas .the balances and trade offs requried to be a successfut building designer.the book logicalty runs through the topics ,including coverage of : principale of climate design ,wind flowaround buildings ,thermal comfort ,solar energy ,energy systems in domestic buildings ,acoustic design ,environmental impacts of buildings ,climate change and bulding design.