Principles for Evaluating Building Materials in Sustainable Construction: Healthy and Sustainable Materials for the Built Environment provides a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction, proposing a holistic and integrated approach.
The book evaluates the issues involved in choosing materials from an ecosystem services perspective, from the design stage to the impact of materials on the health of building users.
The three main sections of the book discuss building materials in relation to ecosystem services, the implications of materials choice at the design stage, and the impact of materials on building users and their health. The final section focuses on specific case studies that illustrate the richness of solutions that existed before the rise of contemporary construction and that are consistent with a sustainable approach to creating built environments. These are followed by modern examples which apply some, if not all, of the principles discussed in the first three sections of the book.
1. Introduction - p. xix 2. Part I: Selecting Building Materials for Reduced Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Ecosystem Services Analysis - p. xxiv 3. 1. Utilizing relationships between ecosystem services, built environments, and building materials - p. 3 4. 2. Ecosystem services analysis: Incorporating an understanding of ecosystem services into built environment design and materials selection - p. 29 5. Part II: Choosing Sustainable Materials - p. 59 6. 3. Building materials - p. 67 7. 4. Materials and buildings - p. 113 8. Part III: Indoor Toxicity from Building Materials - p. 133 9. 5. A lack of recognition of potential health risks from building materials - p. 139 10. 6. Persisting issues with the most recognized building material health risks: Lead and asbestos - p. 155 11. 7. How substances get regulated against in the building industry: Formaldehyde, phthalate plasticizers in polyvinyl chloride/vinyl - p. 175 12. 8. New and less recognized risks with building materials: Volatile organic compounds, replacement chemicals, and nanoparticles - p. 191 13. 9. An overview of health hazards from materials: Application of principles - p. 203 14. Part IV: Case Studies - p. 232 15. 10. Sustainability and the material aspect of traditional residential buildings in Serbia - p. 239 16. 11. Palm thatched building in Mexico - p. 255 17. 12. The effect of global trade on the New Zealand house - p. 271 18. 13. Thurgoona Campus: A living laboratory of healthy and sustainable materials - p. 287 19. 14. The Hockerton Housing Project: A case study of the use of concrete - p. 309 20. 15. Lambie House: Deconstruction and eco-refurbishment - p. 321 21. 16. Meridian: New Zealand’s first Green Star-rated building - p. 331 22. 17. Sustainable and healthy building practice in Germany - p. 345 23. 18. The Bullitt Center: A “Living Building” - p. 357 24. Conclusion - p. 373 25. Index - p. 375
Principles for Evaluating Building Materials in Sustainable Construction: Healthy and Sustainable Materials for the Built Environment provides a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the selection of materials for sustainable construction, proposing a holistic and integrated approach.
The book evaluates the issues involved in choosing materials from an ecosystem services perspective, from the design stage to the impact of materials on the health of building users.
The three main sections of the book discuss building materials in relation to ecosystem services, the implications of materials choice at the design stage, and the impact of materials on building users and their health. The final section focuses on specific case studies that illustrate the richness of solutions that existed before the rise of contemporary construction and that are consistent with a sustainable approach to creating built environments. These are followed by modern examples which apply some, if not all, of the principles discussed in the first three sections of the book.
1. Introduction - p. xix 2. Part I: Selecting Building Materials for Reduced Impacts on Ecosystem Services: Ecosystem Services Analysis - p. xxiv 3. 1. Utilizing relationships between ecosystem services, built environments, and building materials - p. 3 4. 2. Ecosystem services analysis: Incorporating an understanding of ecosystem services into built environment design and materials selection - p. 29 5. Part II: Choosing Sustainable Materials - p. 59 6. 3. Building materials - p. 67 7. 4. Materials and buildings - p. 113 8. Part III: Indoor Toxicity from Building Materials - p. 133 9. 5. A lack of recognition of potential health risks from building materials - p. 139 10. 6. Persisting issues with the most recognized building material health risks: Lead and asbestos - p. 155 11. 7. How substances get regulated against in the building industry: Formaldehyde, phthalate plasticizers in polyvinyl chloride/vinyl - p. 175 12. 8. New and less recognized risks with building materials: Volatile organic compounds, replacement chemicals, and nanoparticles - p. 191 13. 9. An overview of health hazards from materials: Application of principles - p. 203 14. Part IV: Case Studies - p. 232 15. 10. Sustainability and the material aspect of traditional residential buildings in Serbia - p. 239 16. 11. Palm thatched building in Mexico - p. 255 17. 12. The effect of global trade on the New Zealand house - p. 271 18. 13. Thurgoona Campus: A living laboratory of healthy and sustainable materials - p. 287 19. 14. The Hockerton Housing Project: A case study of the use of concrete - p. 309 20. 15. Lambie House: Deconstruction and eco-refurbishment - p. 321 21. 16. Meridian: New Zealand’s first Green Star-rated building - p. 331 22. 17. Sustainable and healthy building practice in Germany - p. 345 23. 18. The Bullitt Center: A “Living Building” - p. 357 24. Conclusion - p. 373 25. Index - p. 375
