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Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this into a global challenge.

This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation:

  • Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly and the reduction of their ecological fingerprints', the extension of their s

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    1. Introduction 2. Materials 3. Design 4. Construction 5. Facility Management and Re-Lifeing 6. Innovation – Capture and Implementation

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/02/2009
      ISBN13: 9780415462884, 978-0415462884
      ISBN10: 0415462886

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this into a global challenge.

      This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation:

      • Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly and the reduction of their ecological fingerprints', the extension of their s

        Table of Contents

        1. Introduction 2. Materials 3. Design 4. Construction 5. Facility Management and Re-Lifeing 6. Innovation – Capture and Implementation

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