Pubbl/distr/stampa	Shāriqah, United Arab Emirates : , : Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (184 p.)
Disciplina	338.927
Soggetto topico	Sustainable development Sustainable buildings Sustainable construction Sustainable urban development Social responsibility of business
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-68108-064-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover ""; ""Title ""; ""EUL ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Chapter 01 ""; ""Chapter 02 ""; ""Chapter 03 ""; ""Chapter 04 ""; ""Chapter 05 ""; ""Chapter 06 ""; ""Chapter 07 ""; ""Chapter 08 ""; ""Chapter 09 ""; ""Author Index ""; ""Subject Index ""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910543822203321

Autore	Sakai K (Koji)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (185 p.)
Disciplina	624.1/834
Altri autori (Persone)	NoguchiTakafumi
Soggetto topico	Concrete Concrete construction Sustainable construction Concrete - Environmental aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-429-21294-1 1-136-72731-0 0-203-81717-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Sustainability; Chapter 3 - Sustainability in Concrete and Construction; Chapter 4 - Evaluation Systems of Sustainability; Chapter 5 - Technologies for Concrete Sustainability; Chapter 6 - Sustainable Concrete Technologies: Case Studies; Chapter 7 - Future Perspectives; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452822903321

Autore	Coulson Jim (James C.)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (214 pages)
Disciplina	691/.10286
Soggetto topico	Building, Wooden Sustainable construction Construction industry - Waste minimization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-118-53964-8 1-118-53961-3 1-118-53965-6
Classificazione	ARC018000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: Preface Acknowledgements 1 Some Things You Should Know About Wood, Trees and Forests 1.1 Some basic information on how trees grow 1.2 Basic tree types - softwoods and hardwoods 1.3 The properties of timbers 1.4 Different forests and tree types 1.5 Rate of growth 1.6 Natural forests 1.7 Managed forests: Conifers 1.8 Managed forests: Broadleaves 2 The Concept of Being 'Sustainable' 2.1 Being sustainable: A definition and a target 2.2 What can we do to help? 2.3 Using the forest resource: The economic argument 2.4 Legal harvesting 2.5 The Timber Trade Federation: Introducing its responsible purchasing policy 3 Voluntary Timber Certification Schemes 3.1 Some further details on the RPP 3.2 Checking legality - I: The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 3.3 Checking legality - II: FLEGT 3.4 Going beyond FLEGT: MYTLAS 3.5 Checking legality - III: Other 'legality' certification schemes 3.6 Checking sustainability: Chain of Custody Certification 3.7 FSC and PEFC as Chain of Custody Certifiers 3.8 Other Chain of Custody Certification bodies 3.9 UKWAS 3.10 Third-party assurance 3.11 How Chain of Custody schemes operate 4 The UK Government and European Regulations: Legally Trading in World Timbers 4.1 Checking up on the checkers: The role of CPET 4.2 CPET's help with legality and sustainability requirements 4.3 Legality and sustainability: The UK government's definitions 4.4 Legal timber sources - the UK government's definition 4.5 Sustainable timber sources - the UK government's definition 4.6 Category A and Category B - 'Proof of Compliance' 4.7 Current and future supplies of certified timber 4.8 The EUTR: Europe's new and compulsory 'timber legality scheme' 4.9 The meaning of 'due diligence' 4.10 Satisfying the EUTR 4.11 Who actually needs to obey the EUTR? 4.12 The 'first placer on the market' 4.13 CE marking and the CPR 4.14 CITES: What exactly is it? 5 Specifying Sustainable Timber for any Project: Some Important Dos and Don'ts; With a Bit More About Wood 5.1 Using wood in a sustainable way 5.2 The government's Timber Procurement Policy (TPP): A brief reminder 5.3 Certificates 5.4 What if I can't get the timber I want? 5.5 The use of recycled timber 5.6 Insisting on a particular Chain of Custody 'brand' for your certified timber 5.7 Deciding which wood to use 5.8 Some of wood's other characteristics 6 Some Principal Softwoods Used in Construction in the UK: With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials 7 A Selection of Hardwoods Used in the UK: With Their Main Properties and Sustainability Credentials 8 Re-use of Timber and Wood Products: The Carbon Cycle, End of Life Disposal and Biomass 8.1 The true 'carbon cycle' 8.2 End of life disposal of timber and wood-based products 8.3 Recycled timber 8.4 Disposal of timber in landfill 8.5 Burning wood: Fossil fuels versus biomass 8.6 Biomass 9 Energy Considerations and Construction Materials 9.1 Embodied energy 9.2 Cradle to grave analysis 9.3 Cradle to cradle 9.4 BREEAM Appendix 1 Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Book Appendix 2 Timber and Wood Products: Some Helpful Organisations Index .
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910139138003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Duxford, United Kingdom : , : Woodhead Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (637 pages)
Disciplina	691
Collana	Woodhead Publishing series in civil and structural engineering
Soggetto topico	Construcció sostenible Residus com a materials de construcció Formigó - Reciclatge Waste products as building materials Sustainable construction Concrete - Recycling
ISBN	0-08-102157-7 0-08-102156-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910583393403321