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Sustainable infrastructure : principles into practice / Charles Ainger and Richard Fenner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ainger, C. M. (Charles M.), author.
- Fenner, Richard (Richard A.), author.
- Series:
- Delivering sustainable infrastructure.
- Delivering sustainable infrastructure
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil engineering.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 360 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London : ICE Publishing, 2014.
- Summary:
- 'Sustainable Infrastructure' is a practical and accessible handbook which addresses the key principles of sustainability for engineers and built environment professionals. It outlines the critical changes needed to deliver more sustainable solutions and offers techniques to embed these changes as best practice in order to deliver high quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe.
- Contents:
- Part I Principles
- Why sustainability?
- Key principles
- Part II Practice
- Business strategy
- Project scoping
- Stakeholder engagement
- Procurement
- Outline design
- Detailed design
- Construction
- In-use to end of life
- Part III Change
- Understanding your arena for change
- Individual action for change
- Part IV Tools
- Tools for sustainability practice
- End words
- Appendix A: Summaries of common sustainability principles
- Index.
- Notes:
- Sponsored by MWH.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-62870-423-3
- 0-7277-5755-5
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