Overview
- Highlight the benefits of timber and wood construction
- Considers the effect of wood and timber construction on carbon emissions
- Includes contributions and case studies from varied geographical regions
Part of the book series: Innovative Renewable Energy (INREE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Importance of Wood and Timber in Sustainable Buildings brings together a distinguished group of contributors from different cultures and building traditions to address why now is the time to rethink our constructionmethods and explore replacing many of the carbon intensive materials that are currently being used with wood and timber.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof Sayigh taught in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Reading University and University of Hertfordshire From 1966 – 2004. He was Head of Energy Department at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and Expert in renewable energy at AOPEC, Kuwait from 1981-1985.
He started working in solar energy in September 1969. In 1972, he established with some colleagues in Saudi Arabia “The Journal of
Engineering Sciences” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 1984 he established International Journal for Solar and Wind Technology, as an Editor-in-Chief. This has changed its name in 1990 to Journal of Renewable Energy. He is editor of several International journal published in Morocco, Iran, Bangladesh, Nigeria and India. He established WREN and the World Renewable Energy Congress in 1990. Member of various societies related to climate change and renewable energy. He is Chairman of Iraq Energy Institute since 2010.
He was consultants to many national and international organizations, among them, the British Council, ISESCO, UNESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, UNIDO and UN. He run conferences and Seminars in 54 different countries, published more than 600 papers. He edited, written and associated in more than 100 books. He supervised more than 82 MSc. and 36 PhD students. He is editor-in- chief of the yearly Renewable Energy Magazine, 2000-2016. He is the founder of WREN and Renewable Energy Journal published by Elsevier & was the Editor-in-chief for 30 years from 1984 – 2014.He is the Editor-in-chief of Comprehensive Renewable Energy coordinating 154 top scientists, Engineers and researchers’ contribution in eight volumes published in 2012 by Elsevier which won 2013 PROSE award in USA. He is the founder of Med Green Buildings and Renewable Energy Forum since 2011. In 2016 he established peer review international open access journal called “Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability” – REES, which is published in English on line by EDP publisher in Paris.
Winner of the Best Clean Energy Implementation Support NPO – UK. In 2018 WREN was rated globally is one of the best organization in the UK promoting renewable energy. In November 2018, Prof. Sayigh was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Art, (FRSA). Prof Sayigh is working with Springer Nature in publishing books and proceedings since 2014 and up to now.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Importance of Wood and Timber in Sustainable Buildings
Editors: Ali Sayigh
Series Title: Innovative Renewable Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71700-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71699-8Published: 14 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71702-5Published: 15 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71700-1Published: 13 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-8927
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8935
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 311
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Building Materials, Building Construction and Design, Energy Policy, Economics and Management