Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

ISBN-13: 9780415893169 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 350 str.

Spiro N Pollalis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.