Construction Ecology Nature as a basis for green buildings free download

Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systemizing the various ideas which come under the banner of sustainable construction. As designers of built environments focus increasingly on green and sustainable construction they will be able to learn much from the field of industrial ecology.
Construction Ecology Nature as a basis for green buildings free download 






LIST OF CONTENT


1 Defining an ecology of construction 7
2 Material circulation, energy hierarchy, and building construction 37
3 On complexity theory, exergy, and industrial ecology 72
4 Applying the principles of ecological emergence to building design and construction 108
5 Using ecological dynamics to move toward an adaptive architecture 127
6 Minimizing waste emissions from the built environment 159
7 Industrial ecology and the built environment 177
8 Construction ecology and metabolism 196
9 Construction ecology 220
10 Ecologic analogues and architecture 231
11 Natural metabolism as the basis for “intelligent” architecture 248
12 Green architecture 269


Construction Ecology Nature as a basis for green buildings free download 

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