Sustainable Steel Buildings (eBook)

A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes

Bernhard Hauke, Markus Kuhnhenne, Mark Lawson (Herausgeber)

Milan Veljkovic (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2016 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-74079-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Sustainable Steel Buildings reviews steel and its potential as a sustainable building material and shows how steel can be used to deliver buildings and structures with a high level of sustainability. The book's main focus is on the advantages and disadvantages of steel and how those characteristics can be used under a range of international certification systems (DGNB, LEED, BREEAM, openhouse etc).

Autor

The Editors Bernhard Hauke is CEO of bauforumstahl, the association of the German Steel Construction Industry Markus Kuhnhenne is Professor of Sustainability of Metal Constructions at RWTH Aachen University Mark Lawson is Professor of Construction Systems at the University of Surrey Milan Veljkovic is Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at the Technical University of Delft

Inhalt

List of contributors

1. Foreword

2. What does "Sustainable construction" mean? - An overview

3. Basic principles of sustainability assessment

4. Sustainable Steel Construction

5. Sustainability Certification Labels for Buildings

6. Case Studies and Life Cycle Assessment Comparisons

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen • Civil Engineering & Construction • Construction: Sustainability • Hochbau • Nachhaltiges Bauen • Stahlbau • Stahlhochbau u. Brückenbau • Stahlhochbau u. Brückenbau • Steel Construction & Bridge Engineering
• ISBN-10: 1-118-74079-3 / 1118740793
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-74079-8 / 9781118740798