ED+C Magazine the premier source for integrated high-performance building, is dedicated to efficient and sustainable design and construction. Environmental Design + Construction provides the progressive commercial and residential architect, designer, specifying engineer and building developer with essential information on the rapidly growing green building industry.

Part 1 covers the influences that affect the way we build - the environmental agenda, the human factors, buildability, time and costs. Part 2 takes the reader through the life of a typical building project - from briefing, through design and assembly, to use and eventual disassembly. Part 3 tackles some of the underlying issues facing the architectural technologist - from the communication of details to technological innovation.

"Calamity" - "Catastrophe" - "Collapse": Antarctica is the great unknown in the world's climate and its obscurity means that it has always been played as the wild card in global change. But it was Antarctica, protected by global treaty and kept pristine by environmental protocol, that actually gave the first solid evidence of the impact refrigerators and aerosols were having on the atmosphere. And it is Antarctica, the last great wilderness, hard to get to, harder to work in, that is now seen in almost biblical terms as the source of the next Great Flood.