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Sustainable construction technologies : life-cycle assessment /

Sustainable Construction Technologies: Life-Cycle Assessment provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost. Chapters provide an overview of LCA and how it can be used in conjunction with other indicat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tam, Vivian W. Y. (Editor ), Le, Khoa N. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, OX : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Current management approach
  • 3. Management
  • 4. Indoor environment quality
  • 5. Life cycle energy consumption of buildings; embodied + operational
  • 6. Energy: current approach
  • 7. Sustainable procurement and transport of construction materials
  • 8. Sustainable water use in construction
  • 9. Materials
  • 10. Emissions
  • 11. Sustainable construction technology adoption
  • 12. Lean principles in construction
  • 13. BIM-Enabled sustainable housing refurbishment
  • LCA case study
  • 14. Bridging sustainable construction technologies and heritage: novel approach to the conservation of the built environment
  • 15. Conclusions.