Product Description: Life Cycle Assessment addresses the dynamic and dialectic of building and ecology, presenting the key theories and techniques surrounding the use of life cycle assessment data and methods. Architects and construction professionals must assume greater responsibility in helping building owners to understand the implications of making material, manufacturing, and assemblage decisions and therefore design to accommodate more ecological building...read more

Product Description: Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. The need for life cycle assessment to inform environmental design within the built environment is critical, due to the complex range of materials and processes required to construct and manage our buildings and infrastructure systems...read more

Product Description: Navigating Green Construction and Energy Initiatives is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the strategic thinking behind implementing more sustainable building and energy practices throughout the United States. Featuring state and municipal environmental and energy directors from across the country, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the efforts being made to invest in renewable energy and green infrastructure, as well as the challenges of promoting green development, including educating communities, renovating older buildings, financing improvement programs, and offering incentives for adopting new practices...read more

Product Description: A new concept for interactive residential planning: Taking Le Corbusiers Unité dhabitation as their starting point, the authors develop a flexible system that permits them to take optimal account of social and cultural conditions in their design processes...read more

Product Description: Cooling cities, Reducing energy demand, Containing water runoff, Preserving wildlife habitat, Enhancing urban well-being: These are a few of the many reasons why green roofs are sprouting in cities around the world. Examine possibilities for city-wide green roof development through 335 color photographs, 40 case studies of exemplary green roof building projects, and 7 municipal case studies describing green roofs in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Portland, Chicago, Toronto, and New York...read more