Ebook: Sustainable construction : green building design and delivery

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction and Overview -- The Shifting Landscape for High-Performance Buildings -- Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction -- The Vocabulary of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction -- Sustainable Design, Ecological Design, and Green Design -- Rationale for High-Performance Green Buildings -- State and Local Guidelines for High-Performance Construction -- Green Building Progress and Obstacles -- Book Organization -- Trends in High-Performance Green Building -- Case Study: Kroon Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- pt. I Green Building Foundations -- ch. 2 Background -- Ethics and Sustainability -- Basic Concepts and Vocabulary -- Major Environmental and Resource Concerns -- The Green Building Movement -- Case Study: OWP 11, Stuttgart, Germany -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 3 Ecological Design -- Design versus Ecological Design -- Historical Perspective -- Contemporary Ecological Design -- Key Green Building Publications: Early 1990s -- Key Contemporary Publications about Ecological Design -- Future Ecological Design -- Thermodynamics: Limits on Recycling and the Dissipation of Materials -- Thought Piece: Regenerative Development and Design: Working with the Whole / Bill Reed -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- pt. II Assessing High-Performance Green Buildings -- ch. 4 Green Building Assessment -- Major Green Building Assessment Systems Used in the United States -- International Building Assessment Systems -- BREEAM CaseStudy: AHVLA Stores Building, Weybridge, United Kingdom -- Green Star Case Study -- Thought Piece: Shifting Emphasis In Green Building Performance Assessment / Raymond J. Cole -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 5 The US Green Building Council LEED Building Rating System -- Brief History of LEED -- Structure of the LEED Suite of Building Assessment Systems -- LEED Credentials -- The LEED Process -- LEED Categories -- Case Study: The Heavener Football Complex, University of Florida, Gainesville -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- ch. 6 The Green Globes Building Assessment System -- The Green Globes Process -- Green Globes Verification and Certification -- Structure of the ANSI/GBI 01-2010 Standard -- The Green Globes Professional and Green Globes Assessor -- Case Study: Health Sciences Building, St. Johns River State College, St. Augustine, Florida -- Summary and Conclusions -- Note -- pt. III Green Building Design -- ch. 7 The Green Building Design Process -- Conventional versus Green Building Delivery Systems -- Executing the Green Building Project -- The Integrated Design Process -- Role of the Charrette in the Design Process -- Green Building Documentation Requirements -- Case Study: Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- ch. 8 The Sustainable Site and Landscape -- Land and Landscape Approaches for Green Buildings -- Land Use Issues -- Sustainable Landscapes -- Enhancing Ecosystems -- Stormwater Management -- Low-Impact Development -- Heat Island Mitigation -- Light Trespass and Pollution Reduction -- Assessment of Sustainable Sites: The Sustainable Sites Initiative -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 9 Energy and Carbon Footprint Reduction -- Building Energy Issues -- High-Performance Building Energy Design Strategy -- Passive Design Strategy -- Building Envelope -- Internal Load Reduction -- Active Mechanical Systems -- Water-Heating Systems -- Electrical Power Systems -- Innovative Energy Optimization Strategies -- Renewable Energy Systems -- Fuel Cells -- Smart Buildings and Energy Management Systems -- Ozone-Depleting Chemicals in HVAC&R Systems -- Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Built Environment -- Case Study: River Campus Building One, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland -- Thought Piece: Building Energy Analysis: The Present and Future / Ravi Srinivasan -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 10 Built Environment Hydrologic Cycle -- Global Water Resource Depletion -- Water Distribution and Shortages in the United States -- Hydrologic Cycle Terminology -- High-Performance Building Hydrologic Cycle Strategy -- Designing the High-Performance Building Hydrologic Cycle -- Water Budget Rules of Thumb (Heuristics) -- Sustainable Stormwater Management -- Landscaping Water Efficiency -- Case Study: LOTT Clean Water Alliance, Olympia, Washington -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 11 Closing Materials Loops -- The Challenge of Materials and Product Selection -- Distinguishing between Green Building Products and Green Building Materials -- LCA of Building Materials and Products -- Environmental Product Declarations -- Materials and Product Certification Systems -- Key and Emerging Construction Materials and Products -- Design for Deconstruction and Disassembly -- Case Study: Project XX Office Building, Delft, Netherlands -- Thought Piece: Closing Materials Loops / Bradley Guy -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 12 Indoor Environmental Quality -- Indoor Environmental Quality: The Issues -- Integrated IEQ Design -- Addressing the Main Components of Integrated IEQ Design -- Emissions from Building Materials -- Economic Benefits of Good Indoor Environmental Quality -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- pt. IV Green Building Implementation -- ch. 13 Construction Operations and Commissioning -- Site Protection Planning -- Managing Indoor Air Quality during Construction -- Construction Materials Management -- Construction and Demolition Waste Management -- Commissioning -- Thought Piece: The Role of Commissioning in High-Performance Green Buildings / John Chyz -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 14 Green Building Economics -- General Approach -- The Business Case for High-Performance Green Buildings -- The Economics of Green Building -- Quantifying Green Building Benefits -- Managing First Costs -- Tunneling through the Cost Barrier -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- ch. 15 The Cutting Edge of Sustainable Construction -- Passive Survivability -- Cutting Edge: Case Studies -- Case Study: The Federal Building, San Francisco, California -- Articulating Performance Goals for Future Green Buildings -- The Challenges -- Revamping Ecological Design -- Today's Cutting Edge -- Thought Piece: Processes, Geometries, and Principles: Design in a Sustainable Future / Kim Sorvig -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References