Sustainable Built Environments
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Beschreibung
This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes the breadth of science and engineering knowledge critical to advancing sustainable built environments, from architecture and design, mechanical engineering, lighting, and materials to water and energy, public policy, and economics. Covering both building, landscape and green infrastructure design and management, detailed consideration is given to how the building sector, the biggest player in the energy use equation, can minimize energy demand while providing measurable gains for productivity, health, and the environment. With a focus on the environmental context, the reader will understand how sustainable design merges the natural, minimum resource conditioning solutions of the past (daylight, solar heat, and natural ventilation) with the innovative technologies including nature-based solutions of the present. The desired result is an integrated “intelligent” and as socially “just as possible” system that supports individual control with expert negotiation for resource consciousness.
Shows how sustainable design is a collective process whereby the built environment achieves unprecedented levels of ecological balance through new and retrofit construction, with the goal of long-term viability and humanization of architecture and the inclusion of green and blue elements Covers the basic principles of sustainable landscape ecological management, from resource conservation, green infrastructure, built development, and environmental quality to social equity, human health and political participation Presents the design of flexible systems, integrated for comprehensive performance delivery Describes processes and patterns of both urban growth and shrinkage as a new and intertwined topic of urban systems research
Autor*in
Vivian Loftness
Themen in »Sustainable Built Environments«
Sustainable design Biodiversity in Cities Daylighting Controls Geothermal Conditioning Green Roof Science and Technology Healthy Built Environment Indoor Environmental Quality Passive Solar Heating Sustainability Rating Systems Green infrastructure Nature-based solutions