Sustainable construction

Helps all building design and cost professionals to understand sustainable design and provides the technical skills needed to implement the most up-to-date concepts.

Materials Selection Lighting and Daylighting Water and Sewage Management Heating Environmental Policy and Legislation Cooling and Ventilation Strategies Renewable Energy Technologies Sustainability Drivers Construction Processes, Site Issues and Handover Low Impact Construction Electrical Installations Post Occupancy Evaluation Cost Issues Benchmarking Performance Urban Ecology

Building and construction professionals, architects, developers, planners and students in the fields of building, construction, architecture, urban design/urban planning, sustainability.

'Professor Sandy Halliday has created a great resource for construction professionals striving to understand the environmental consequences of the work they do and the materials they work with, and to find effective and economic ways to minimise or eliminate negative outcomes. Sustainable Construction has grown out of a training course for architects, clients, engineers and cost professionals on designing and delivering a sustainable built environment, and its practical application is apparent. Most of the chapters deal with specific engineering and management issues: heating, ventilation and cooling, plumbing, water and sewage, materials selection and construction processes, to name a few. Each chapter is punctuated by multiple case studies describing the implementation, including the var