Description |
1 online resource (272 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Carbon? -- Our Carbon Challenge -- Building Elements -- King Carbon -- A Global Carbon Budget -- The Carbon Cycle in Building History -- Carbon Flows in Building -- Staunching the Flow -- Time Management in Carbon Mitigation -- Re-balancing the Planet: Agency and Opportunity -- About This Book: An Overview -- Visualizing Carbon Flows -- Chapter 2 Measuring Carbon Flows -- Life Cycle Assessment: What's in It for Building Designers? -- An Opportunity -- Carbon Measurement for Carbon Management -- The Fundamental Concepts |
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The Approach -- Life Cycle Boundaries, Scales, and Periods -- Operational and Embodied Impacts -- The Stages of the Building Life Cycle -- Assessment Methods -- Standards -- The Process of Life Cycle Assessment -- Defining the Goal and Scope of Assessment -- Setting the System Boundaries: What to Include? -- Life Cycle Scenarios -- Sensitivity Analysis -- Cut-Off Rules -- The Production Stage -- Materials Make a Difference -- Calculating the Carbon Flows in the Production Phase -- Inventory of Materials -- Data for Material-Related Emissions |
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Reducing the Carbon Footprint in the Production Stage -- The Construction Stage -- From Material Components and Products to the Building System -- Transport -- Construction Method -- The Use Stage -- Embodied and Operational Impacts -- Emissions from the Use of Energy and Water -- Service Life -- Other Emissions (and Potential Removals) During the Use Phase -- End-of-Life Stage -- End-of-Life Scenarios -- Deconstruction -- Transport -- Landfilling and Decomposition -- End-of-Waste -- Closing the Loop -- Results, Interpretation, and Comparison -- Describing the Dominance of Life Cycle Phases |
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Sensitivity Analysis -- Comparing Impact Estimates -- Limits of a Life Cycle Approach -- The Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment for Buildings -- Chapter 3 Case Studies in Decarbonization -- Notes from the Field -- How Were the Calculations Performed? -- Material Inventories -- Carbon Footprints -- Biogenic Carbon Neutrality of Wood -- Carbonation of Concrete -- Accumulation of Carbon in Plants and Soil -- Mitigation Potential -- Case Study 1 Common Ground High School -- Architectural Objectives (by Gray Organschi Architecture) |
Summary |
Of Total Carbon Emissions, Storages and Circulation Potential -- Common Ground High School: Key Figures -- Materials -- Site and Ground Works -- Foundations and Ground Floor -- Structural Frame -- Façades and External Decks -- Roofs -- Internal Dividers -- Space Surfaces -- Internal Fixtures -- Building System Installations -- Mitigation Potential from Materials and Systems -- Energy-Related Emissions -- Case Study 2: Puukuokka Housing Block -- Puukuokka One Apartment Building -- Architectural Objectives (by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture) |
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Of Total Carbon Emissions, Storages, and Circulation Potential |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Organschi, Alan
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Ruff, Andrew
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ISBN |
9781119720829 |
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1119720826 |
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