Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates

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The authors would like to express their thanks to the following people for their support and contribution to the book: David Tinker for his time and effort in creating some of the illustrations contained within the book. Robin hughes for his advice and commentary on the preliminary drafts. Naomi jayne Wilson for her general support with the draft and assistance in sourcing images and permissions to publish. julie, Steve and Sam for their support and understanding during the writing of this text. Becky Randles for assistance with indexing. In addition, the following is a list of people and companies to whom we would like to extend our thanks for the use of original material, case studies and reproduced BIM drawings: Pilkington glass, St helen’s for use of Pilkington Spectrum version 7.0.1. Autodesk for the use of Revit software in producing original drawings. Chartered Institute of Building for using original graphical data. World Wildlife Fund, germany for using original graphical data in Tables 5.8, 5.9 and 5.10. © WWF – World Wide Fund For Nature, ‘Illegal wood for the european market: An analysis of the eu import and export of illegal wood and related products’, July 2008. Alex Yong kwang Tan and Nyuk hien Wong, department of Building, School of design and environment, National university of Singapore, for use of original data. Shane Thompson Architects, Queensland, Au. eMF griffiths engineers, Australia. Thalita gorban Ferreira giglio and ercilia hitomi hirota, at Construction depart ment, State university of londrina, Brazil. Sara Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney