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Author Kuittinen, Matti

Title Carbon A Field Manual for Building Designers
Published Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2022

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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
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
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
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)
Of Total Carbon Emissions, Storages, and Circulation Potential
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Organschi, Alan
Ruff, Andrew
ISBN 9781119720829
1119720826