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Green Building with Concrete
Edited by Gajanan Sabnis
Packed with case studies highlighting construction companies that regularly recycle between 70% and 95% of concrete from their waste streams, this book presents practical, up-to-date information about concrete's history in the green building movement, state of the art methodologies, and current...
May 2011 | 978-1-4398129-6-9 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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Managing Environmentally Sustainable Innovation in Building: Understanding the Innovation Chains and Networks in Green Building
By B A G Bossink
Science is now working on new sustainable forms of energy and new ecological materials that will shape our built environment. But what are the concrete, science-based artifacts that are really going to shape our surroundings? This book finds the answers in innovation chains and innovation networks....
May 2011 | 978-0-415-87971-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Green Buildings and the Law
Edited by Julie Adshead
In countries such as the UK, the energy used in constructing, occupying and operating buildings represents approximately 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure to improve the environmental performance of buildings during both construction and occupancy, particularly to reduce carbon emissions...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55926-3 | Hardback (Spon Press)
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Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment
By Robert Crawford
Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. Against a backdrop of environmental standards becoming increasingly stringent,...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55795-5 | Hardback (Spon Press)
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Sustainability of Concrete
By Pierre-Claude Aïtcin, Sidney Mindess
Production of Portland cement is responsible for about 7% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The pressure to make the production of concrete more sustainable, or "greener", is considerable and increasing. This requires a wholesale shift in processes, materials and methods in the concrete...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-57196-8 | Hardback (Spon Press)
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Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future
By Carole Ryan
Since the spread of classical design and construction amongst the upper echolons of British society in the late 17th century, traditional construction methods have largely fallen by the wayside. Centuries later, as the construction industry faces up to its environmental responsibilities, this...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-46757-5 | Paperback (Spon Press)
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Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference
By Ken Yeang, Lillian Woo
The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, this illustrated dictionary provides over 1500 definitions and explanations of ecodesign terms. Providing a unique resource for the practitioner and student, ...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-45899-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Climate and Architecture
Edited by Torben Dahl
Provides a critical overview of the main climate influences which shape the design of buildings. Written by experts in their field, the book contains the latest research into climatic design supported by case studies and examples drawn from both historic and modernist practice from Europe and...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-56309-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Tropical Urban Heat Islands: Climate, Buildings and Greenery
By Nyuk Hien Wong, Yu Chen
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised....
2008 | 978-0-415-41104-2 | Hardback (Spon Press)