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Author | : Olivia Guerra Santin |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 158603894X |
Construction will always be needed, and will always consume resources. In developing an approach for assessing sustainable building, the Three Step Strategy (in the Netherlands named Trias Ecologica) has proven to be useful. This title looks at this Strategy.
Author | : O. Guerra Santin |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-07-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1607503581 |
The ultimate goal of building and construction – in relation to environmental issues – is to construct in an environmentally neutral way; or, as the Brundtland Report states, to consume in such a way that our children have the same choices that we have. Construction will always be needed, and will always consume resources. But in accordance with the conditions of the Brundtland Report, we should move construction into a direction that does not deplete resources, and does not worsen living circumstances through harmful indoor or outdoor environmental effects. Improving our efficiency in resource consumption is the only way in which we will be able to continue our current way of life. It has been calculated that in order to (only) maintain the world average lifestyle a factor 4 of improvement in efficiency of resource consumption is necessary, based on global resource availability, effects on climate change, and coping with growing welfare for developing countries. Measuring a factor x improvement heavily relates to the chosen benchmark. Building activities will always require some environmental load: the mere fact of living already implies use of earthbound resources, so it is generally not very efficient to calculate emissions and other effects in an absolute way. The ultimate target is not to avoid resource use at all, but to use only “reproductive resources” (“regrowable, renewable and replaceable”) to create a balanced situation. When this is achieved, we will still use resources, but usage will be sustainable: it can be maintained well into the future. In developing an approach for assessing sustainable building, the Three Step Strategy (in the Netherlands named Trias Ecologica) has proven to be useful. This publication takes a detailed look at this Strategy.
Author | : Sebastian Macmillan |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780415315265 |
Author | : Mohamed Abdel-Basset |
Publisher | : Infinite Study |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : |
The paper focuses on the dimensions and indicators of sustainable design for GBs in developing countries to achieve the positive dimensions of building sustainability, such as preserving energy and natural resources, water management, adaptation to the surrounding environment, and respecting the needs of its users.
Author | : Randall Thomas |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0419237607 |
Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordhams, one of the leading UK environmental engineering consultancies, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally friendly buildings. The principles of their approach, which they have taught in numerous schools of architecture and engineering, are clearly presented here. This book is essential reading for architects, engineers, planners and students of these disciplines and for all those who are concerned with our built environment.
Author | : Samad Sepasgozar |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1789851491 |
This book envisions the most appropriate design strategies that guarantee the adequate environmental performance of buildings during phases of design and construction as well as use. It focuses on relevant issues related to the production of sustainable buildings and the socio-cultural integration aspects of new architectural designs in urban settings. The book also addresses the design features of historic buildings.
Author | : Richard Hyde |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2007-01-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134436971 |
The built environment is responsible for an estimated forty-five per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. As the greatest opportunities for reducing these emissions occur during the briefing and design processes, the pathway to better design lies in preparing environmental briefs, and using these to drive building design and produce buildings of high environmental performance. This process-driven book looks at the theoretical issues involved in an environmental brief, and outlines methods by which architects can approach the writing of a brief that considers all aspects of the natural and the built environment, and relates these concepts to a number of case studies from around the world.
Author | : Xiaoming Wang |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030762319 |
This monograph offers analyses of construction activities using various key concepts and assessments of sustainable development, and provides students and researchers with methodologies and design aspects for the sustainable development of the built environment. Additionally, the book demonstrates various national and international policies for assisting architects, engineers and policy makers in understanding the relevant decision-making approaches to sustainable development in construction. The book begins by reviewing the background of sustainability and sustainable development. The focus then turns to the effects of climate change on the built environment, including impacts of energy and carbon emissions, as well as constraints on water and waste management. The remaining chapters discuss the necessary approaches to achieve sustainable waste management, energy efficient building design, and resilience and adaptation in the built environment In eight chapters, the book encourages readers to think independently, logically and objectively about the complex issues presented by the applications of sustainable development in construction, including resource efficiency, environmental impacts, human health, building economics and social development.
Author | : Umberto Berardi |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2018-07-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3038425982 |
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainability Assessments of Buildings" that was published in Sustainability
Author | : C. A. Brebbia |
Publisher | : WIT Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 184564171X |
Unlike the mechanistic buildings it replaces, Eco-Architecture is in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs. Eco-Architecture makes every effort to minimise the use of energy at each stage of the building's life cycle, including that embodied in the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, their assembly into the building and ultimately the ease and value of their recycling when the building's life is over. Featuring papers from the First International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the text brings together papers of an inter-disciplinary nature, and will be of interest to engineers, planners, physicists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and other specialists, in addition to architects. Featured topics include: Historical and Philosophical aspects; Ecological and Cultural Sensitivity; Human Comfort and Sick Building Syndrome; Energy Crisis and Building Technologies; Carbon Neutral Design; Alternative Sources of Energy (wind, solar, wave, geothermal etc); Design with Nature; Design with Climate; Siting and Orientation; Re-use of Brownfield Sites; Material Selection; Minimal Transportation Approaches and use of Indigenous Materials; Life Cycle Assessment of Materials; Design by Passive Systems; Conservation and Re-use of Water; Building Operation and Management; Applications in Different Building Types; Regulations and Contracts.