Sustainable construction : green building design and delivery / Charles J. Kibert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable Construction -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- The Shifting Landscape for Green Buildings -- The Roots of Sustainable Construction -- Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction -- The Vocabulary of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction -- Sustainable Construction -- Green Building -- High-Performance Buildings, Systems Thinking, and Whole-Building Design -- Sustainable Design, Ecological Design, and Green Design -- Land Resources -- Energy and At mosphere -- Water Issues -- Ecosystems: The Forgotten Resource -- Rationale for High-Performance Green Buildings -- State and Local Guidelines for High-Performance Construction -- Green Building Progress and Obstacles -- Trends in High-Performance Green Building -- Transparency -- Carbon Accounting -- Net-Zero Buildings -- Building Information Modeling -- Life-Cycle Assessment -- Book Organization -- Case Study: The Pertamina Energy Tower: A Primer on Green Skyscraper Design -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part I Green Building Foundations -- Chapter 2 Background -- The Driving Forces for Sustainable Construction -- Ethics and Sustainability -- The Ethical Challenges -- Intergenerational Justice and the Chain of Obligation -- Distributional Equity -- The Precautionary Principle -- The Reversibility Principle -- The Polluter Pays Principle and Producer Responsibility -- Protecting the Vulnerable -- Protecting the Rights of the Nonhuman World -- Respect for Nature and the Land Ethic -- Basic Concepts and Vocabulary -- Sustainable Development -- Industrial Ecology -- Construction Ecology -- Biomimicry -- Design for the Environment -- Ecological Economics -- Carrying Capacity -- Ecological Footprint -- The Ecological Rucksack and Materials Intensity per Unit Service -- The Biophilia Hypothesis -- Eco-Efficiency -- The Natural Step -- Life-Cycle Assessment -- Life-Cycle Costing -- Embodied Energy -- Factor 4, Factor 5, and Factor 10 -- Major Environmental and Resource Concerns -- Climate Change -- Deforestation, Desertification, and Soil Erosion -- Eutrophication and Acidification -- Loss of Biodiversity -- Toxic Substances and Endocrine Disruptors -- Depletion of Metal Stocks -- The Green Building Movement -- Green Building Organizations-United States -- Green Building Organizations-International -- History of the U.S. Green Building Movement -- New Directions in High-Performance Green Building -- Case Study: OWP 11, Stuttgart, Germany -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Ecological Design -- Design versus Ecological Design -- Benefits of Ecological Design -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Richard Neutra -- Lewis Mumford -- Ian McHarg -- Malcolm Wells -- John Lyle -- Contemporary Ecological Design -- Key Green Building Publications: Early 1990s -- The Hannover Principles.

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