| Description |
vi, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Wiley book on sustainable design |
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Wiley book on sustainable design.
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| Contents |
Materials for sustainable sites defined -- Background : inputs, outputs and impacts of construction materials -- Evaluating the environmental and human health impacts of materials -- Resource reuse : designing with and specifying reclaimed, reprocessed and recycled-content materials -- Concrete -- Earthen materials -- Brick masonry -- Asphalt pavement -- Aggregates and stone -- Wood and wood products -- Metals -- Plastics and rubber -- Biobased materials / by Ruth Stafford |
| Summary |
"Materials for Sustainable Sites guides architects, engineers, contractors, and landscape architects in making the right choices to minimize their projects' environmental and human health impacts, whether the right answer is a new, green material or a conventional, tried and true material used in green ways."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sustainable buildings -- Materials.
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Building materials.
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| LC no. |
2008002722 |
| ISBN |
9780470134559 (cloth) |
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0470134550 |
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