Leadership And Sustainability In The Built Environment

Author : Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317564232

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Leadership and Sustainability in the Built Environment by Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed Pdf

Leadership and sustainability have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context over the years, but they have yet to be addressed together. The real impact of legislation and guidelines designed to promote sustainability within the construction industry is closely linked to the leadership behind it, as this book explores in a variety of ways. Featuring research from 5 different continents, the international scope of this book allows a comparison of experiences in different types of economies and cultures. The interdisciplinarity of this subject is also reflected in the backgrounds of the contributors, with a significant number of perspectives derived from business and management research. The issues examined in this book are essential reading for all researchers, decision-makers and graduate students in the built environment.

Author : Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317564225

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Leadership and Sustainability in the Built Environment by Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed Pdf

Leadership and sustainability have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context over the years, but they have yet to be addressed together. The real impact of legislation and guidelines designed to promote sustainability within the construction industry is closely linked to the leadership behind it, as this book explores in a variety of ways. Featuring research from 5 different continents, the international scope of this book allows a comparison of experiences in different types of economies and cultures. The interdisciplinarity of this subject is also reflected in the backgrounds of the contributors, with a significant number of perspectives derived from business and management research. The issues examined in this book are essential reading for all researchers, decision-makers and graduate students in the built environment.

Author : Mohan Kumaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 178560273X

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Leadership, Culture and Sustainable Built Environment by Mohan Kumaraswamy Pdf

This e-book on 'Leadership, Culture and Sustainable Built Environment' examines the important link between leadership, culture and sustainability which have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context. After a rigorous double blind review process, six papers have been selected for publication in this e-book that brings these separate issues together; with one paper on sustainability in the built environment, three papers on the link between leadership and sustainability in the built environment and two papers on the contribution of culture in a sustainable bu.

Author : Vivian Loftness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1071606832

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Sustainable Built Environments by Vivian Loftness Pdf

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes the breadth of science and engineering knowledge critical to advancing sustainable built environments, from architecture and design, mechanical engineering, lighting, and materials to water and energy, public policy, and economics. Covering both building, landscape and green infrastructure design and management, detailed consideration is given to how the building sector, the biggest player in the energy use equation, can minimize energy demand while providing measurable gains for productivity, health, and the environment. With a focus on the environmental context, the reader will understand how sustainable design merges the natural, minimum resource conditioning solutions of the past (daylight, solar heat, and natural ventilation) with the innovative technologies including nature-based solutions of the present. The desired result is an integrated “intelligent” and as socially “just as possible” system that supports individual control with expert negotiation for resource consciousness.

Author : Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed,Heather Cruickshank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1785602721

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Leadership, Culture and Sustainable Built Environment by Alex Opoku,Vian Ahmed,Heather Cruickshank Pdf

Author : Mohammad Dastbaz,Ian Strange,Stephen Selkowitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319193489

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Building Sustainable Futures by Mohammad Dastbaz,Ian Strange,Stephen Selkowitz Pdf

This book presents state-of-the-art research and case studies on new approaches to the design, construction and planning of our cities. Emphasis is placed on the role of alternative and renewable energy in the development of urban infrastructures that enable sustainable futures. Reflecting the multi-faceted efforts required to successfully meet sustainability challenges, this book is a collaboration between practitioners and academics across a broad spectrum of specializations. Compelling research findings are explained in the context of practical implementation, enhanced by case studies from industry leaders in order to create a pragmatic reference across policy areas where environmentally aware decision making is required.

Author : Mark Urizar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469191980

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City of Layers by Mark Urizar Pdf

Society seems to be tied irrevocably to long-term patterns of resource use, and to producing unassimilatable waste, emissions, and ongoing environmental degradation. There also are seemingly irresolvable dilemmas between humanity and nature, society and ecology, and utility and beauty, where each decision we make seems to cause some harm. To change from our present path and resolve these, we must have the courage to break from traditions and use our knowhow to progressively and creatively enhance the existing built form so a new built reality emerges, one that enriches people and possibly enables a sustainable future. This alternate path necessitates a holistic approach, one that can more effectively merge and better utilise the disciplines of architecture, engineering, art, sciences and business to integrate the many different parts within the built environment, and produce a vibrant, viable new whole. With this approach, we could begin to transform the built environment into an entity that virtually replicates and functions as a natural sustainable system. Every decision we make is important. What practices, processes, technologies are applied, to how built elements are designed, placed, structured, configured and interfaced, are all important. These determine what eventuates; the built form, architecture, and the ultimate ‘appropriateness’ of the resulting outcome. By determining what is ‘appropriate’, this book provides a retrospective view of the semi-static present built environment with its many in-place processes, issues, constraints, and opportunities, and postulates what is required by visualising the possible alternatives for the always growing built environment. These provide a useful insight into how the built form and urban life can be enhanced, and thereby also how humanity can use architecture to live in a more equitable balance, possibly in harmony and sustainably with nature.

Author : Adriana X Sanchez,Keith Hampson,Geoffrey London
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351783279

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Integrating Information in Built Environments by Adriana X Sanchez,Keith Hampson,Geoffrey London Pdf

In an increasingly globalised built environment industry, achieving higher levels of integration across organisational and software boundaries can lead to improved economic, social and environmental outcomes. This book is the direct result of a collaborative global network of industry and academic researchers spread across nine countries as part of CIB’s (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) Task Group 90 (TG90) Information Integration in Construction (IICON). The book provides a broad view of some of the opportunities and challenges brought by integrating information across organisational and system boundaries in the built environment industry. Chapters cover a large range of topics and are separated into three sections: resources, processes and added value. They provide a much-needed international perspective on a current global evolution in the industry and present leading original research and valuable lessons for researchers, industry practitioners, government clients and policy makers across the industry. Key features include: a broad range of topics that are not covered elsewhere in the literature; contributions from a diverse group of industry research leaders from across the globe; exemplar case studies providing real-world examples of where information integration has been a key factor for success or lack thereof has been at the root cause of failure; an analysis of future priority areas for research and development investment as well as their strategic implications for public and private decision-makers; the book will deliver innovation in best practice methodology for information sharing across disciplines and between the design, construction and asset management sectors.

Author : Emina K. Petrovic,Brenda Vale,Maibritt Pedersen Zari
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780081007068

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Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment by Emina K. Petrovic,Brenda Vale,Maibritt Pedersen Zari Pdf

Principles for Evaluating Building Materials in Sustainable Construction: Healthy and Sustainable Materials for the Built Environment provides a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction, proposing a holistic and integrated approach. The book evaluates the issues involved in choosing materials from an ecosystem services perspective, from the design stage to the impact of materials on the health of building users. The three main sections of the book discuss building materials in relation to ecosystem services, the implications of materials choice at the design stage, and the impact of materials on building users and their health. The final section focuses on specific case studies that illustrate the richness of solutions that existed before the rise of contemporary construction and that are consistent with a sustainable approach to creating built environments. These are followed by modern examples which apply some, if not all, of the principles discussed in the first three sections of the book. Provides a holistic and integrated approach to the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction Provides a thorough understanding of ecosystem services based on ecology research for built environment design Provides an original review of the impact of materials on human health Provides case studies to illustrate the points above

Author : Alison Cotgrave,Mike Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780230390591

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Total Sustainability in the Built Environment by Alison Cotgrave,Mike Riley Pdf

The first textbook in sustainable construction bringing together the whole range of topics from planning through to facilities management in an accessible and engaging way, and complete with illustrations and photographs. Written by experts and including real-world case studies, this book can be used as a core text or across several modules. The book begins with planning issues, after which each chapter charts the different stages of the construction process through to refurbishment of existing buildings. This textbook is aimed at undergraduate Built Environment and Construction students or pre-degree HND/FD students in Architectural Technology and Architecture, Building Surveying, General Practice Surveying, Urban Planning, Property Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Facilities Management and general programmes focussed on the environment. It will also be of interest to professionals working for construction and property companies as there are so few resources that give a complete overview of sustainability in construction.

Author : Begum Sertyesilisik,Ahmed Al Shamma'a
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780230314443

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The Sustainable Built Environment by Begum Sertyesilisik,Ahmed Al Shamma'a Pdf

The text adopts an interdisciplinary approach to address the huge challenges in creating a sustainable built environment. In a broad survey of critical issues it assesses procurement, cost modelling and management, sustainable buildings, low and zero carbon technologies, sustainability in utilities, and the law.

Author : Peter S. Brandon,Patrizia Lombardi,Geoffrey Q. Shen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119190714

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Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment by Peter S. Brandon,Patrizia Lombardi,Geoffrey Q. Shen Pdf

Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty years.

Author : David Strong,Victoria Burrows
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781630814410

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A Whole-System Approach to High Performance Green Buildings by David Strong,Victoria Burrows Pdf

This authoritative new resource provides a comprehensive review of the current approaches to the design and construction of sustainable buildings. This hand-on guide features global case studies with practical examples of both successful and unsuccessful designs. The whole system approach to integrated design is clearly presented. This book includes insight into designing for the future, including design quality and future proofing, intelligent buildings, and whole life value. Nature inspired sustainable designs that can be mimicked in the construction industry are presented. Technical challenges such as energy efficiency, design, and computer modeling are explored along with various construction phase opportunities.

Author : Craig Langston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136360633

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Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment by Craig Langston Pdf

Sustainability is a key issue and its impact on the construction industry, as one of the major users of the Earth's resources, is starting to take hold. This book deals with sustainability as it affects the construction industry, looking at the techniques and issues which designers, engineers, planners and construction managers will have to deal with in their day-to-day activities. It covers methods of analysis such as environmental impact assessment and cost-benefit analysis as well as topics on design and energy regulation and conservation. The book is an important introduction to the subject for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students. Given the importance and novelty of the subject, professionals in the construction industry will also find the book valuable.

Author : Runming Yao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447147817

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Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments by Runming Yao Pdf

Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management. An integrated approach in delivering a sustainable built environment is desired by the built environment professional institutions. The aim of this book is to provide an advanced understanding of the key subjects required for the design and management of modern built environments to meet carbon emission reduction targets. In Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments, an international group of experts provide comprehensive and the most up-to-date knowledge, covering sustainable urban and building design, management and assessment. The best practice case studies of the implementation of sustainable technology and management from the BRE Innovation Park are included. Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments will be of interest to urban and building designers, environmental engineers, and building performance assessors. It will be particularly useful as a reference book for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the built environment field.