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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | It has taken a very long time for sustainable development to be recognised as a justified restraint on inappropriate development and a primary driver of improving quality of life for all.
For designers, clients and project managers this means we have to create healthy buildings and places which support communities, enhance biodiversity and contribute to reversing unsustainable trends in pollution and resource consumption. It is a very positive agenda.
This groundbreaking book will help all building design, management and cost professionals to understand sustainable design and provide the technical skills needed to implement the most up-to-date concepts. Based on a hugely successful series of workshops for professionals in construction, the book covers the history of ideas, materials, measurement - both cost and benchmarking performance - environmental services, and the building design and delivery process through to post-occupancy evaluation. It covers individual buildings and the urban scale.
Sustainable Construction is a master-class in how to achieve practical, affordable, replicable, sustainable design.
It has something new and often surprising in it for everybody in the construction industry.
For the Architect and Engineer it gives chapter and verse to the basic design issues at all scales and through the whole of the plan of work
For Quantity Surveyors and cost professionals it challenges current conventions with researched case study evidence"
For clients and project managers it outlines the drivers and the justification for a sustainable approach and outlines the legislative framework; and it gives guidance on procurement and project and site management issues
For contractors and developers it contains a wealth of case study material, rooted in practical experience and economic reality.
For teachers and students it will bust myths, liberate thinking and inform design
*Best practice solutions and case studies
*Practical advice on implementation of sustainable construction techniques
*Prepared by industry experts for their peers | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Sandy Halliday | | Paperback: | 408 pages | | Publisher: | Butterworth-Heinemann | | Publication Date: | January 23, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0750663944 | | Product Length: | 10.89 inches | | Product Width: | 8.71 inches | | Product Height: | 0.93 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.18 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.87 inches | | Package Width: | 8.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.94 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.13 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 1 reviews |
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Finally: A "Why Do It" rather than a "How To Do It" Dec 16, 2009
By Donald G. Rowe
"Integrating design and practice"
Although there is a compelling need for designing and building sustainable, urban developments, what passes for sustainable--or "green"--building these days often comes up short. As an architect, I snicker at the green claims that have exploded in the building products industry. The mere attribute of recycled content, for instance, can now make a conventional product suddenly "green." But you don't have to dig too far into the research literature to learn that little or nothing we are doing is sustainable. Hence, many of my fellow professionals have become cynical, claiming that the "fad" of sustainable design is a shallow exercise.
But after reading Thomas Fisher's book "Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival," I knew that it was not only a substantive goal, but absolutely necessary if we are going to leave a stable world for future generations--starting with the the very next one. So, the logical step for me was to discover the overarching issues that comprise real sustainability. Perhaps if I did this, I could return to the kind of ethical practice for which Fisher so passionately argues.
That is when I sought out Professor Sandy Halliday, an expert in sustainable building technology in the UK for many years. She outlines the essential criteria by which buildings must now be judged. They must: Enhance biodiversity, support communities, use resources effectively, minimize pollution, create healthy (interior and exterior) environments, and manage the stewardship of the design and construction process itself. These criteria points establish the organization for the book.
What struck me in particular is how far-reaching these requirements are. It isn't enough to minimize your impact on the land, but to actually improve its habitat. That buildings must not just satisfy the needs of its owner, or its occupants, or the developer, but contribute to the aspirations of the community in which it stands, places a significant but necessary burden on designers their developer-clients that they never before have born. Ms. Halliday, who has worked in appropriate building technology research since the middle 80s, knows the pitfalls and easy answers that befall popular movements. For instance, she is thoroughly versed in the various methods and tools available to assess the performance of what we finally build, but warns that many of the tools "rely on numbers," and "in the hands of the inexperienced they can give undue emphasis to what is readily measurable at the expense of broader concerns or discrete interactions." Instead, she admonishes designers and their clients to "understand the breadth and comparative value of different techniques in order to best assess their real contribution to a sustainable future."
The book is replete with examples of actual projects built all over northern Europe that supports the text immeasurably. There is also a good section which sheds light on the backstory of sustainable development including policy, legislation, and the international, environmental conferences that are the drivers of the current movement.
In the final analysis, what is sustainable is not necessarily limiting "the number of babies, cars, or refrigerators that put stress on an environment," but rather the efficient use of resources while minimizing pollution and net waste that arise in their manufacture and consumption. Our current green building boom is a move in the right direction.
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