Book description
Principles for Evaluating Building Materials in Sustainable Construction: Healthy and Sustainable Materials for the Built Environment provides a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction, proposing a holistic and integrated approach.
The book evaluates the issues involved in choosing materials from an ecosystem services perspective, from the design stage to the impact of materials on the health of building users.
The three main sections of the book discuss building materials in relation to ecosystem services, the implications of materials choice at the design stage, and the impact of materials on building users and their health. The final section focuses on specific case studies that illustrate the richness of solutions that existed before the rise of contemporary construction and that are consistent with a sustainable approach to creating built environments. These are followed by modern examples which apply some, if not all, of the principles discussed in the first three sections of the book.
- Provides a holistic and integrated approach to the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction
- Provides a thorough understanding of ecosystem services based on ecology research for built environment design
- Provides an original review of the impact of materials on human health
- Provides case studies to illustrate the points above
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface: A call for ontological consideration of building materials
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I: Selecting Building Materials for Reduced Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Ecosystem Services Analysis
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1. Utilizing relationships between ecosystem services, built environments, and building materials
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction: reducing the environmental impact of built environments
- 1.2 Ecosystem services: definitions and boundaries
- 1.3 Relationships between ecosystem services
- 1.4 Defining ecosystem services for a built environment context: key places for change
- 1.5 Descriptions of ecosystem services most applicable to a built environment context
- 1.6 Conclusion: ecosystem services and the built environment. Moving towards a more positive relationship
- References
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2. Ecosystem services analysis: Incorporating an understanding of ecosystem services into built environment design and materials selection
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction: a wider perspective on sustainability and the built environment
- 2.2 Ecosystem services analysis and whole building or urban design
- 2.3 Ecosystem services analysis and materials selection
- 2.4 Benefits and difficulties of applying the ecosystem services concept to built environment design and materials selection
- 2.5 Potential impacts on ecosystem services of common building materials
- 2.6 Conclusion: Materials selection and ecosystem services. A shift in thinking
- References
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1. Utilizing relationships between ecosystem services, built environments, and building materials
- Part II: Choosing Sustainable Materials
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Part III: Indoor Toxicity from Building Materials
- 5. A lack of recognition of potential health risks from building materials
- 6. Persisting issues with the most recognized building material health risks: Lead and asbestos
- 7. How substances get regulated against in the building industry: Formaldehyde, phthalate plasticizers in polyvinyl chloride/vinyl
- 8. New and less recognized risks with building materials: Volatile organic compounds, replacement chemicals, and nanoparticles
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9. An overview of health hazards from materials: Application of principles
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Key commonalities in polymer sources
- 9.3 Plastics—more solid polymers
- 9.4 Disposal of plastics
- 9.5 Film-forming finishes: paints, varnishes, and oils
- 9.6 Biopolymers
- 9.7 Radon
- 9.8 Titanium dioxide (TiO2)
- 9.9 Linoleum—a natural composite
- 9.10 Timber
- 9.11 Conclusion
- References
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Part IV: Case Studies
- 10. Sustainability and the material aspect of traditional residential buildings in Serbia
- 11. Palm thatched building in Mexico
- 12. The effect of global trade on the New Zealand house
- 13. Thurgoona Campus: A living laboratory of healthy and sustainable materials
- 14. The Hockerton Housing Project: A case study of the use of concrete
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15. Lambie House: Deconstruction and eco-refurbishment
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction: a domestic eco-refurbishment
- 15.2 The builder and the clients: commitment to resource savings
- 15.3 Reusing windows and doors
- 15.4 Reusing the roof
- 15.5 Recovering existing fittings and fixtures
- 15.6 Materials: minimizing waste
- 15.7 Conclusions: intentions, attitudes, and realities
- 16. Meridian: New Zealand’s first Green Star-rated building
- 17. Sustainable and healthy building practice in Germany
- 18. The Bullitt Center: A “Living Building”
- Conclusion
- Index
Product information
- Title: Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2017
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9780081007068
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