Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure Series – serie
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
619 kr
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Sustainable Water is a practical and accessible book for built environment professionals who play vital roles in creating and maintaining water services. It outlines a framework of fundamental principles, methodologies and approaches needed to deliver high quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe by approaching it from the time-limited, output-driven perspective of practical infrastructure engineers and practitioners. The applied examples from existent civil engineering projects identify the key sustainability issues and challenges for the water sector, their common principles and how these can be applied in practice.As an invaluable resource Sustainable Water:Identifies the sector priorities for change to sustainabilityUses the latest best practiceDescribes opportunities and methodologies with leading edge examplesDiscusses the barriers and potential ways to innovateIdentifies opportunities and constraintsAdvises on the right questions to ask at each stage of project deliverySustainable Water identifies and applies the critical changes needed to provide more sustainable solutions, and to embed these into a tradition of excellent by delivering sufficient water through a good service, of the right quality and at an affordable cost, as straightforwardly as possible.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
551 kr
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Sustainable Buildings is an indispensable handbook that combines a summary of good practice and sources of information helpful to practitioners involved in the design and procurement of buildings.This book illustrates the need for inter-disciplinary integration and an understanding of environmental physics as early as possible in the design process in order to deliver high-quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe.With many years of knowledge related to the sustainability of buildings, the authors aim to provide a balanced view of current best practice and a vision of the way forward in a rapidly changing sector, the demands placed on its outputs and the solutions that are available.Sustainable Buildings provides readers with:time-limited and output-driven perspectives of practical infrastructure practitionersreal-life examples and case studies from a range of UK and worldwide projectsa comparison of RIBA, ACE, French, Russian and US design processesa framework that allows engineers, architects, surveyors, constructors and others to work together as a teamreal-world advice on how, when and what professionals involved in infrastructure-related businesses need to consider.Sustainable Buildings is part of the Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series of handbooks aimed at providing engineers with an understanding of sustainability principles and solutions. To be useful for practitioners, the series sets sustainability concepts within well-known engineering management processes of planning, designing and delivering infrastructure.