Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-89316-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 287 mm, Gewicht: 1492 g

You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the roles team members hold, and design approaches, including alternative development and financing structures. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainability within infrastructural systems, such as those for energy, water, and waste, so that you know what's possible. And best of all, they present here for the first time the Zofnass Environmental Evaluation Methodology guidelines, which will help you and your team improve infrastructure design, engineering, and construction.

Zielgruppe

Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollalis, Spiro

Georgoulias, Andreas

Ramos, Stephen

Schodek, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauökologie, Baubiologie, Bauphysik, Bauchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sustainability: A Broad Perspective Part 1: Dimensions of Sustainability 1. Climate Change and Infrastructure 2. Resource Allocation 3. Infrastructure and Nature: Reciprocal Effects and Patterns for our Future 4. Quality of Life 5. Sustainable Wellness: The Convergence of Social and Ecological Wellbeing Part 2: Sustainable Practices in Infrastructure Systems 6. Water Infrastructure and Sustainability Systems 7. The Evolution of Urban Water and Energy Infrastructure Systems 8. Sustainability Aspects of Large-Scale Wind Power Development 9. Sustainable Solid Waste Infrastructure 10. Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure 11. Transportation: Aviation/Airports 12. Sustainability in Ports, Freights and Logistics 13. Ecological Infrastructure Part 3: Assessing Urban Infrastructures 14. Issues in Assessing Urban Infrastructures 15. Current Environmental Evaluation Approaches 16. The Zofnass Rating System for Infrastructure Sustainability and Decision-Making 17. Economic Assessments of the Value of Sustainability Part 4: Design and Planning for Infrastructure Sustainability 18. Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? 19. Intelligent Infrastructures 20. Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism Beyond Engineering 21. Shaping the Built Environment and Infrastructure to Improve our Quality of Life 22. Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?

Über Autor(innen)

Spiro N. Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School, practices as urban planner, and is the Chairman of the public company for the redevelopment of the site of the old Athens Airport in Greece.
Andreas Georgoulias is Lecturer at the Harvard Design School, where he teaches and researches sustainable development.

Stephen J. Ramos is an Assistant Professor in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia.
Daniel L. Schodek is the Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Design School, where he taught from 1969 until 2008.