Green building with concrete sustainable design and construction

"Packed with case studies highlighting construction companies that regularly recycle between 70% and 95% of concrete from their waste streams, this book presents practical, up-to-date information about concrete's history in the green building movement, state of the art methodologies, and c...

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Other Authors Sabnis, Gajanan M.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2012.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781439812976
Physical Descriptionxv, 320 p. : ill., maps.

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Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Introduction / Gajanan M. Sabnis
  • ch. 2. Sustainability in the cement industries and chemical admixtures / Thomas B. Carter
  • ch. 3. The principles of sustainable building design / N. Subramanian
  • ch. 4. Sustainability through thermal mass of concrete / William Juhl
  • ch. 5. Concrete pavements and sustainability / Thomas J. Van Dam and Peter Taylor
  • ch. 6. Roller compacted concrete pavements : a sustainable alternative / Chetan Hazaree
  • ch. 7. Pervious concrete for sustainable development / Karthik H. Obla and Gajanan Sabnis
  • ch. 8. Heat island effects / Pushpa Devanathan and Kolialum Devanathan
  • ch. 9. Future sustainable city : the case of Masdar City / Gajanan M. Sabnis
  • ch. 10. Sustainability and rehabilitation of concrete structures / Gopal Rai
  • ch. 11. Global sustainability and concrete / Edward J. Martin.