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- Title
The Lanchester Library -- Building a Sustainable Library.
- Authors
Noon, Pat
- Abstract
The award winning Lanchester Library is the largest deep plan naturally ventilated building in Europe and has consistently delivered significant energy savings compared to air conditioned buildings. The article provides some background to the design and explains the sustainable features of the building as well as describing how flexibility was built into the building to enable the library service to evolve in response to changing user needs.
- Subjects
EUROPE; LIBRARIES; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering of buildings; VENTILATION; ENERGY consumption; LIBRARY service agencies
- Publication
Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
1435-5205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/lq.7916