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Resource Salvation

Resource Salvation

Gorgolewski, Mark

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 1118928776
ISBN13: 9781118928776
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Jan 3 2018
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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