Moving to Sustainable Buildings:: Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries

Umberto Berardi

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2013

Moving to Sustainable Buildings:

Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries

Umberto Berardi

https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560113

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About this book

In his Moving to Sustainable Buildings. Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in Developed Countries, Umberto Berardi explores the transition of the construction sector to sustainable building through the adoption of green innovations. Applying methods ranging from theoretical discussions to interviews and field studies, Berardi describes how organisational models among stakeholders are changing as the sector moves towards a green economy.

Berardi’s book should prove valuable to engineers, architects, environment researchers and policy makers alike, as it successfully weaves together different aspects of green building to create a multidimensional matrix through which sustainable architecture can be understood.

Umberto Berardi, an assistant professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA, USA), teaches courses on sustainable construction, architectural engineering systems and building physics. He was awarded an MSc from the Politecnico di Bari, an MSc from the University of Southampton (UK) and a PhD from the Scuola Interpolitecnica in Italy. His research areas are related to building acoustics, sustainable constructions and energy saving technologies for buildings. Berardi is also a passionate pianist and a strong proponent of interdisciplinary cooperation between the arts and engineering.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	10
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	13
Acknowledgements / Foreword / Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	15
Chapter 1 Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	22
Chapter 2 Definition of sustainable building Publicly Available Download PDF	40
Chapter 3 Sustainability Assessment of Buildings Publicly Available Download PDF	55
Chapter 4 Green Innovations in Sustainable Buildings Publicly Available Download PDF	67
Chapter 5 Managing Green Innovations in the Building sector Publicly Available Download PDF	76
Chapter 6 Construction Stakeholders and Green Innovations Publicly Available Download PDF	97
Chapter 7 Organising the Process of Sustainable Building Publicly Available Download PDF	119
Chapter 8 Policies for Sustainable Buildings Publicly Available Download PDF	140
Chapter 9 Conclusions Publicly Available Download PDF	149
Appendix Publicly Available Download PDF	153
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	158
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	185
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	186
Author’s Biography Publicly Available Download PDF	190

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Pages
- Main content: 190
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
- Tables: 8
- Coloured Tables: 12
Keywords: Slawek

eBook

Published: November 7, 2013
ISBN: 9788376560113

Hardcover

Published: June 27, 2013
ISBN: 9788376560106