Emina K. Petrovic, Brenda Vale, Maibritt Pedersen Zari

Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Principles for Evaluation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780081007068
• Artikelnr.: 47871898

Autorenporträt

Dr Emina Kristina Petrovic is a Lecturer in Interior Architecture at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she completed a PhD in architecture in 2014, and is teaching sustainability and interior architecture. Her research focusses on building materials and their conceptual and practical role in the sustainable built environment with a particular area of expertise in the impacts building materials can have on human health in the indoor environment. Petrovic's work emphasises the importance of informed building material selection for both the built and natural environment, calling for a more detailed consideration of building materials for the totality of their implications (from ecosystem health to ethics of production), asserting the important interrelatedness of these issues. Her other research interests include popular perception of sustainability and history of the 1960s and 1970s interdisciplinary studies of the built environment.