عنوان

Sustainable concrete solutions

Standard Number

electronic

First Statement of Responsibility

Georgopoulos, Costas.

Title Proper

Sustainable concrete solutions

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chichester, West Sussex, UK

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Wiley-Blackwell

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 216 pages ; 25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Professor Costas Georgopoulos, Chair in Structural Engineering Practice Kingston University London; Dr. Andrew Minson, Executive Director MPA - The Concrete Centre

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: Preface Foreword Professor Jacqui Glass Chair in Architecture and Sustainable Construction, Loughborough University 1. Introduction 1.1 Sustainability and Sustainable Development 1.2 The Role of the Design Team in Sustainable Development 1.3 Sustainability Credentials of Concrete 1.4 Book Layout and Context 2. Challenges & Responses 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Climate Change 2.3 Environmental Protection 2.4 Social Progress 2.5 Economic Growth 2.6 Regulatory Responses 2.7 Summary 3. Conceptual Design of Buildings & Infrastructure 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual Design of Buildings 3.3 Conceptual Design of Infrastructure 3.4 Summary 4. Material Specification 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Assessing Environmental Impacts of Materials 4.3 Responsible Sourcing of Materials 4.4 Cements and Combinations 4.5 Aggregates 4.6 Water 4.7 Admixtures 4.8 Novel Constituents 4.9 Reinforcement 4.01 Special Concretes 4.11 Specification Examples 4.21 Summary 5. Construction, Operation and End of Life 5.1 Construction 5.2 Operation 5.3 End of Life 5.4 Summary Appendix A: Thermal Mass Appendix B: Biomass Product Appendix C: Choice of Concrete Slab Options Appendix D: Worked Example on Embodied CO2 for a Building Slab Index

Entry Element

Environmental aspects ، Concrete construction

Entry Element

، Sustainable buildings

Entry Element

، BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development

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