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Construction ecology : nature as the basis for green buildings / edited by Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, and G. Bradley Guy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Building.
- Building materials--Environmental aspects.
- Building materials.
- Green products.
- Sustainable development.
- Architecture and society.
- Construction industry--Appropriate technology.
- Construction industry.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Spon Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Current state of green building 2
- Organization 4
- 1 Defining an ecology of construction / Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, G. Bradley Guy 7
- Construction industry compared with other industrial sectors 8
- Materials and sustainability 14
- Lessons from natural systems 16
- Industrial ecology and metabolism 19
- Ecologically sustainable architecture and construction 21
- Defining construction ecology and metabolism 24
- Part 1 The ecologists 29
- 2 Material circulation, energy hierarchy, and building construction / Howard T. Odum 37
- The energy hierarchy 37
- Materials and the energy hierarchy 40
- Material budgets 40
- Inverse relation of material flux and emergy per mass 42
- Material valuation 46
- Emergy and economic geology of ores 47
- Metabolism and the structural unit 53
- Life cycle minimodel 55
- Structural stages and succession 58
- Ecological engineering insight 60
- Maximum empower principle 60
- Global materials and construction 63
- 3 On complexity theory, exergy, and industrial ecology / James J. Kay 72
- Ecosystems, sustainability, and complexity 74
- Industrial ecology: the design of ecological
- economic systems 82
- Construction ecology 96
- 4 Applying the principles of ecological emergence to building design and construction / Timothy F.H. Allen 108
- Thermodynamics in biological and human organization 109
- History, accidents, and positive feedbacks 115
- Applying biological thermodynamics to buildings 118
- The design and energetics of the building 120
- Energy in the building cycle 123
- 5 Using ecological dynamics to move toward an adaptive architecture / Garry Peterson 127
- Ecological dynamics 128
- Managing ecosystems 137
- Moving toward construction ecology 139
- Scale 145
- Managing disturbance 147
- Part 2 The industrial ecologists 151
- 6 Minimizing waste emissions from the built environment / Robert U. Ayres 159
- Household energy services 168
- 7 Industrial ecology and the built environment / Iddo K. Wernick 177
- Material flows 179
- The land resource 186
- The ecological analogy 189
- 8 Construction ecology and metabolism / Stefan Bringezu 196
- Requirements for construction ecology 196
- Strategies and goals for sustaining the metabolism of economies 198
- Construction material flows in Germany 200
- MIPS and the method of material intensity analysis 203
- Design of construction products and buildings 205
- Materials management 207
- Planning of infrastructure 208
- Product, facility, and building management 212
- 9 Construction ecology / Fritz Balkau 220
- The concept of industrial ecology 220
- Implementing industrial ecology models 221
- Construction ecology 224
- Part 3 The architects 227
- 10 Ecologic analogues and architecture / Sim Van Der Ryn, Rob Pena 231
- Place: form follows flow 233
- People: every voice matters 237
- Pulse: metabolism and flow 241
- Conclusion: breaking through the barriers 244
- 11 Natural metabolism as the basis for "intelligent" architecture / Jurgen Bisch 248
- The rise of science and industry 249
- Mechanization and society 249
- Applying natural metabolism to architecture in Europe 250
- Metabolism
- streamlining the design 251
- Applying simple physics to activate the function of ceilings 254
- Design using the efficiencies of past and future centuries 257
- Controlled ventilation 259
- Energy input reduction 260
- Selecting materials 261
- Summary of approach 262
- Limits and changes
- an outlook 265
- 12 Green architecture / Malcolm Wells 269
- How to build an underground building 278
- Construction costs 283
- Recommendations and agreements 285
- Critical issues requiring further investigation 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415260922
- OCLC:
- 46975175
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