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1 online resource (1178 pages) |
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Title page -- Foreword -- Welcome -- Contents -- Actions and Policies to Implement Sustainable Construction -- Energy Ratings Based on Measured Energy Consumption: A Practical Approach for Implementation of EPBD and Identification of High-Energy Use Buildings -- Achieving Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington DC -- Sustainability Recommendations for a Social Housing Project: Barreiros, Vitória (BR) -- Sustainable Housing: From Consensual Guidelines to Broader Challenges -- The Impacts of Residential Buildings -- How to Identify Life Cycle Based Improvement Potentials -- The Contribution of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) to a Sustainable Built Environment -- Energy Efficiency of Old and New Buildings in Romania -- Construction Sites Environment Management: Establishing Measures to Mitigate the Noise and Waste Impact -- How to Attract Consumers and Real Estate Agents to Sustainable Housing -- Promoting the Environmental Management Systems into Construction Industry: The First Step -- Reasons to Consider the Deconstruction Process as an Important Practice to Sustainable Construction -- Methodology for the Application of Sustainable Construction -- The Calculation Model of the New Portuguese Thermal Regulation -- Put Side by Side with Dynamic Simulation -- Local Actions to Improve the Sustainable Construction in Italy -- Alternative Network Geometry of Essential Networks for Enduring Sustainable Development -- The Certification of Buildings as an Enterprise Strategy of the Real Estate Sector: A National Scope Analysis -- The Sustainability in Rehabilitation and in its Education -- Sustainable Management of Existing Building Stock -- A Framework to Sustainable Renewal of Existing Building Stock in Brazil |
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Sustainability and Natural Resources Uses at a South Brazilian University: Proposing an Environmental Plan to University of Passo Fundo -- The Service Integrated Envelope Applied for Sustainable Office Refurbishment -- Characterization of the Lisbon Elementary Public School Building Stock -- Overcoming the Barriers to Improving the Sustainability of Existing Commercial Office Buildings -- Sustainable Management of Existing Building Stock: A Strategy to Reduce the Energy Consumption and the Environmental Impact -- Housing and Information Society: Integration of ICT in the Existing Housing Stock -- Thermal Rehabilitation of a Student's Hostel Belonging to the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara -- Existence and Progress of Deterioration of Concrete Facades -- Environmental Assessment of the Maintenance of Facade Openings in Dwellings -- The Dutch Case -- How Sustainable Rehabilitation Designers Really Are -- Sustainable Management of Building Stock Refurbishment by Using MCDM -- Renewal of a Big High Density Housing Block in Berlin Kreuzberg -- Sustainable Management of Buildings -- Effect of Balcony Glazing on the Durability of Concrete Structures in Nordic Climate -- Technical Solutions for Sustainability in Post-War Residential Areas -- Sustainable Technologies in the Refurbishment of Existing Building Envelopes in Italy -- Sustainable Recovery Approach to the Existing Housing Stock in Italy -- Living Building Concept: New Approach to Value Delivery in the Built Environment -- Measuring the Effect of Design Changes by a Neuro-Fuzzy System -- Building Sustainability Assessment Tools -- Early Design Stage Evaluation Tool for Sustainable Energy Systems in Large New Buildings -- The Use of EPDs in Building Assessment -- Towards the Complete Picture -- Some Observation About the Efficiency of Building Sustainability Assessment Tools |
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Vitória's Healthcare Buildings Environmental Performance Based on LEED/NC 2.2 -- Assisting the Commissioning of the Low-Energy Buildings Design: From a Methodology to a Dynamic Tool -- Selecting Aspects and Indicators in Environmental Assessment Methods for Buildings -- Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Building Assemblies -- Performance Assessment for Sustainable Construction: Lest We Forget About the Client -- Urban Bioclimatic Indicators for Urban Planers with the Software Tool SOLENE -- Perspectives of Building Sustainability Assessment -- Life Cycle Assessment of Construction Processes -- Optimization of Variable Selection for Sustainable Construction -- Sustainability Assessment of Building Refurbishing Operations -- The Portuguese LiderA System -- From Assessment to Sustainable Management? -- Life Cycle Assessment of Steel and Reinforced Concrete Structures: A New Analysis Tool -- Constant or Variable Indoor Environments? Sustainable Option of Adaptive Thermal Comfort -- Developing a Method to Characterize Indoor Environmental Parameters in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms -- Towards an Integrated Decision Process of Sustainable Urban Projects -- Application of the EcoBlock method to Eco-Design -- Electric Hand Dryers Versus Paper Towels -- Life Cycle Costing as Part of Decision Making -- Use of Building Information Models -- A Fuzzy-Neural Tree Knowledge Model for the Assessment of Building's Transformation -- Design for Sustainability -- Splitting and Managing the Solar Spectrum for Energy Efficiency and Daylighting -- A Sustainable Technical System for Ventilated Facades -- Architectural Beam of Light Use of Daylight Pipes in Climates of High Latitude -- Examination of Solar Control of Existing Building Stock in Izmir and Suggestions for a Sustainable Future -- Energy Consumption of RC Buildings During Their Life Cycle |
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Poly-Optimal Method of Designing Environmentally Friendly Buildings -- Natural Lighting in Office Buildings -- Energy Saving Potencial in Electrical Lighting -- Gypsum Plasters for Energy Conservation -- Implementing the Low Energy Concept into Current Irish Housing Building Delivery Processes -- Issues and Barriers -- Service Life Prediction for Buildings' Design to Plan a Sustainable Building Maintenance -- Durability Design of Metal Structures Based on Lifetime Safety Factor Method -- The Redesign for Residual Service Life of Existing Structures -- The Flexible and Upgradeable Facade Concept for Refurbishment -- Performance Based Design Using Life Cycle Cost Analysis -- Hygrothermal Profiles of Building Elements in the Context of Service Life Design -- Comparison of Two Structural Reuse Options of Two-by-Four Salvaged Lumbers -- Building Deconstruction and Building Heritage Preservation: A Case Study at Porto's World Heritage Historical Centre -- Organisation of Reverse Logistics Tasks in the Construction Industry -- Overview of Deconstruction Activities in Portugal -- Salvageability of Building Materials -- Reusability of Massive Wood Components -- Motives for Design for Disassembly in Building Construction -- Bionic Breathing Skin for Buildings -- An Ecosystem Based Biomimetic Theory for a Regenerative Built Environment -- Practices and Sustainable Principles on the Rural Constructions in Molise Region (Italy) -- Designing the Sustainable City of Tomorrow and Urban Sustainability -- Environmental Performance and Management of Sustainable Urban Projects -- Assessment on Urban Ecosystems -- The Compact City: An Urban Path Towards Sustainability in Arid Areas -- One Planet Living Pioneer Project -- Reflecting About the Emergence of Sustainable Urban Communities -- A Social Ecological Point of View |
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Sustainable Tourism Indicators for the Coastal Places. State of Research -- Sustainability and Human Comfort at Urban Level: Evaluation and Design Guidelines -- reCHARGEDcity21+ -- From a Perforated, Shrinking City to a Energy-Self-Sufficient Town -- Methods in Sustainable Urban Process -- Towards Urban Sustainability: Trends and Challenges of Building Environmental Assessment Methods -- Green Cities of Tomorrow? -- Comprehensive Water and Nutrient Planning for Sustainable Design -- Noise Abatement from the Point of View Sustainable Environment -- Regenerating Lost Places in Old Cities (Link Linguistic with Sustainability) -- The Urban Planning Tools as Quality Control Device for Sustainable Projects -- Urban Rehabilitation with Sustainable Principles: The Case Study of Montefalcione, South Italy -- Sustainable Resources, Eco-Materials and Technologies -- Energy and Resources, Material Choice and Recycling Potential in Low Energy Buildings -- Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Portugal -- Lime-Metakaolin Mortars -- Properties and Applications -- Characterisation of External Renderings of Rammed Earth Construction in Algarve -- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Made with Fine Recycled Concrete Aggregates -- Recycled Aggregate Production: Remark and Assessment of the Economical Advantage of a Case Study -- Be Aware: Built Environment Action on Waste Awareness and Resource Efficiency -- The Need and Means for Sustainable Use of Wood in the Tanzanian Construction Industry -- An Experimental Study on Properties of Mortar Mixing Activated Hwangtoh Considering Pozzolanic Reaction -- A Study on the Physical Properties of Hard Concrete Mixing Various Type of Recycled Aggregate -- Sustainable Steel Buildings Through Natural Fire Safety Concept -- Sustainable Concrete Production |
| Summary |
The construction industry is a vibrant and active industry. The building sector is responsible for creating, modifying and improving the living environment of humanity. On the other hand, construction and buildings have considerable environmental impacts, consuming a significant proportion of limited resources of the planet including energy, raw material, water and land. Therefore, the sustainability of the built environment, the construction industry and the related activities is a pressing issue facing ll stakeholders in order to promote Sustainable Development. The new millennium is challenging practitioners and researchers with the sustainability of the built environment and the construction industry. Hence, the main purpose of this publication is to iscuss these challenges and present solutions that actively facilitate and promote the adoption of policies, methods and tools to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built environment. The issues presented include: Building sustainabilityassessment tools; Indoor environment quality and benchmarks; Sustainable resources and materials use; Use of non-conventional materials; Use of industrial waste; Eco-materials and technologies; Sustainable management of existing building stock; Innovativesustainable construction systems; and Design |
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Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction -- Congresses
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Sustainable architecture -- Congresses
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Construction industry -- Management -- Congresses
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses
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Construction industry -- Environmental aspects
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Construction industry -- Management
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Sustainable architecture
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Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
L. Braganca.
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M. D. Pinheiro.
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S. Jalali.
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R. Mateus.
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R. Amo??da.
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M. C. Guedes.
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| ISBN |
1281029912 |
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9781281029911 |
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