Embodied Carbon in Buildings : Measurement, Management, and Mitigation

Francesco Pomponi

ISBN 10: 3319727958 / ISBN 13: 9783319727950

Edité par Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides a single-source reference for whole life embodied impacts of buildings. The comprehensive and persuasive text, written by over 50 invited experts from across the world, offers an indispensable resource both to newcomers and to established practitioners in the field. Ultimately it provides a persuasive argument as to why embodied impacts are an essential aspect of sustainable built environments. The book is divided into four sections: measurement, including a strong emphasis on uncertainty analysis, as well as offering practical case studies of individual buildings and a comparison of materials; management, focusing in particular on the perspective of designers and contractors; mitigation, which identifies some specific design strategies as well as challenges; and finally global approaches, six chapters which describe in authoritative detail the ways in which the different regions of the world are tackling the issue.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Embodied Carbon in Buildings : Measurement, Management, and Mitigation
• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3319727958
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783319727950
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 35 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 35 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 963 grammes

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Synopsis

Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to embodied carbon calculation and reduction in built environments

Includes numerous case studies of real buildings of various sizes and uses

Reflects various authoritative guidelines and standards, including those from the US Green Building Council and UK Green Building Council

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Francesco Pomponi is the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Construction of Edinburgh Napier University. Francesco's expertise lies with life cycle assessment, embodied carbon, and circular economy and he moved to academia after six years in industry as an engineer and project manager. He is part of the newly launched Annex 72 of the International Energy Agency and has recently chaired the 'Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Accounting' Forum of the International Passive and Low Energy Architecture conference and the 'Design for Sustainability' Track of the International Sustainable Development Research Society conference. He is a Fellow of the RSA, a member of the IET, and an Associate Fellow of the HEA. An associate member of St Edmund's College University of Cambridge and of Cambridge Architectural Research (CAR), Francesco regularly collaborates with practitioners and researchers from South and Central America, South Africa, Europe, and ofcourse the UK.

Dr Catherine De Wolf is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) cofounded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships from the European Commission and a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, where she works on low carbon structural design within the Structural Xploration Lab. She also worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge while obtaining her PhD in Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), after studying both civil engineering and architecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles. She closely collaborated with leading engineering firms including Arup, Ney & Partners, and Thornton Tomasetti on embodied carbon assessment in buildings. This led to her nomination on the board of the Carbon Leadership Forum and the launch of the Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Initiative.

Dr Alice Moncaster is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the Open University. She remains a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she was previously a Lecturer in Engineering and Director of the IDBE masters course, and a Fellow of Newnham College. The move to academia followed ten years in industry as a civil/structural engineer, during which time she became increasingly concerned about the responsibility of the construction sector for climate change. Alice's research focuses on reducing the ecological impacts of the built environment. She led the research group Cambridge University Built Environment Sustainability (CUBES) as part of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge between 2010-17, and has been the UK participating expert on the International Energy Agency Annex 57, and now Annex 72, since 2012.