A valuable source of information, insight, and fresh ideas about a crucial aspect of the growing sustainable design movement Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and recycling an issue of paramount importance. A fundamental goal of the sustainable design movement is to derive utmost use from construction materials and components, including energy, water, materials, building components, whole structures, and even entire infrastructures. Written by an expert with many years of experience in both industry and academe, this book explores a wide range of sustainable design strategies which designers around the globe are using to create efficient and aesthetically pleasing buildings from waste streams and discarded items. Emphasizing performance issues, design considerations and process constraints, it describes numerous fully realized projects, and explores theoretical applications still on the drawing board. There is a growing awareness worldwide of the need for cyclical systems of materials reuse. Pioneering efforts at closed–loop design date as far back as 1960s, but only recently have architects and designers begun to focus on the opportunities which discarded materials can provide for creating high performance structures. A source of insight and fresh ideas for architects, engineers, and designers, Resource Salvation: Reviews the theory and practice of building material and waste reuse and describes best practices in that area worldwide Describes projects that use closed–loop thinking to influence and inspire the design of components, interiors, whole buildings, or urban landscapes Illustrates how using discarded materials and focusing on closed loops can lead to new concepts in architecture, building science, and urban design Demonstrates how designers have developed aesthetically compelling solutions to the demands of rigorous performance standards Resource Salvation is a source of information and inspiration for architects, civil engineers, green building professionals, building materials suppliers, landscape designers, urban designers, and government policymakers. It is certain to become required reading in university courses in sustainable architecture, as well as materials engineering and environmental engineering curricula with a sustainable design component. INDICE: Foreword .Acknowledgement .1. Introduction .1.1. Background .1.2. Scarcity of resource .1.3. Waste and obsolescence .1.4. Permanence and repair .1.5. Material Efficiency .1.6. Embodied energy and carbon .1.7. The circular economy .1.8. Reuse v recycling .1.9. Summary .2. Concept supporting reuse .2.1. History of building component reuse .2.2. Barriers to reuse .2.3. Urban metabolism & resource flows .2.4. Urban mining .2.5. Upcycling – cradle to cradle .2.6. Salvageability and design for deconstruction (DfD). .2.7. Information – materials passports .2.8. Component redesign design for reassembly and secondary use .2.9. Typologies of material reuse .3. Case studies .3.1. Adaptive reuse with component reuse .i. Alliander building .ii. Posner Center for International Development – the horsebarn .iii. Energy Resource Center (ERC) .iv. Hughes Warehouse .v. Roy Stibbs Elementary School .vi. Hindmarsh Shire Council Offices .3.2. Reusing what is available at the site .i. Ford Calumet Environmental Centre .ii. Hill End Eco–house .iii. Tysons Living Learning Centre .iv. Parkwood Residences .3.3. Reusing construction materials from elsewhere .i. Headquarters of the European Council and Council of the European Union .ii. La Cuisine, Winnipeg Folk Festival .iii. Point Valaine Community Centre .iv. Oasis Children s Venture .v. Old Oak Dojo .3.4. Secondary use of non–construction materials .i. Pocono Environmental Education Centre .ii. Big Dig House .iii. Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum .iv. Waste House .4. Material investigations .4.1 Nordic Built Component Reuse .4.2 Storywood .4.3 Reuse of structural steel .4.4 Rebrick .5. Experience of practitioners .5.1 Rotor .5.2 Milestone Project Management .5.3 Lendanger Group .5.4 Superuse studio .6. Implications for design .6.1 Design process characteristics .6.2 Performance issues .6.3 Understanding sources and opportunities .6.4. Decision process .6.5. Conclusion .Appendices: .Further Readings .List of definitions
- ISBN: 978-1-118-92877-6
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 22/12/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés