The Sustainable Built Environment - Technical, managerial, legal and economic aspects

The text adopts an interdisciplinary approach to address the huge challenges in creating a sustainable built environment. In a broad survey of critical issues it assesses procurement, cost modelling and management, sustainable buildings, low and zero carbon technologies, sustainability in utilities, and the law.>

List of contents

1. Introduction to the Sustainable Built Environment
2. Sustainable Procurement
3. Cost Modelling for Sustainability
4. Sustainable Building Process
5. Sustainable Buildings
6. Low and Zero Carbon Technologies in Buildings
7. Sustainability in Utilities: Water Efficient Sustainable Buildings
8. Environmental Law for the Built Environment and Environmental Impact Assessment
9. Conclusion.

About the author

Begum Sertyesilisik is Visiting Professor in the School of the Built Environment at Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Professor in the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Ahmed a, Ahmed Al Shamma'a, Begum Sertyesilisik, Begum Al Shamma&apos Sertyesilisik, Begum Al Shamma''''a Sertyesilisik, Sertyesilisik Begum, Ahmed Al Shamma'a
• Assisted by: Ahmed Al Shamma'a (Editor), Begum Sertyesilisik (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2015
• EAN: 9780230314443
• ISBN: 978-0-230-31444-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, History, Building, Construction, Building Construction and Design, Heating, lighting, ventilation, Engineering, Architectural, Buildings—Design and construction