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Towards Sustainable Building

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Nicola Maiellaro

    1. Housing and Social Infrastructures Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 61)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Planning in Evolution

      • Dino Borri
      Pages 3-10

    3. Integrating Expert and Common Knowledge for Sustainable Housing Management

      • Emilia Conte, Valeria Monno
      Pages 11-28

    4. Sustainable Building Policies: Exploring the Implementation Gap

      • Ellen van Bueren
      Pages 29-42

    5. Eco-Labelling for Buildings

      • Andreas Blum, Clemens Deilmann, Frank-Stefan Neubauer
      Pages 43-57

    6. Bio-Climatic Technologies in Mediterranean Countries

      • Nicola Cardinale, Dora Francese, Francesco Ruggiero
      Pages 59-76

    7. Actions Towards Professionals and the General Public to Overcome the Barriers to the Development of Bioclimatic Technologies

      • Dominique Raulin, Dominique Flahaut
      Pages 77-87

  3. Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Environmental Impact Assessment Methods in the Netherlands

      • Ellen van Keeken
      Pages 91-108

    3. Environmental Impact of Dutch Dwellings: Priorities for Reduction and Benefits of Sustainable Construction

      • Gerda Klunder
      Pages 109-134

    4. Modelling Environmental Complexity for Sustainable Design Practice

      • Mario de Grassi, Berardo Naticchia
      Pages 135-160

    5. EPIQR-TOBUS: a new generation of refurbishment decision aid methods

      • Flourentzos Flourentzou, Jean-Louis Genre, Claude-Alain Roulet
      Pages 161-169

    6. Support Measures for Sustainable Building

      • Antonella Lerario, Nicola Maiellaro
      Pages 171-200

  4. Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Research in Construction Engineering and Technology: The International Context

      • Valter Esposti
      Pages 203-206

    3. The Life Cycle of Building

      • Peter Schmid
      Pages 207-226

    4. Sustainable Construction: Some Economic Challenges

      • Ranko Bon
      Pages 227-240

    5. On the Way Towards Sustainable Building

      • Pekka Huovila
      Pages 241-250

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 251-254
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About this book

This volume contains the extended versions of selected papers presented at the first Mediterranean Conference "Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building" held at the Polytechnic ofBari in December 1999, supported by the National Research Council of Italy. The publication of this book was made possible through the efforts of the contributing Authors. Other people have provided invaluable support for the conference and for the preparation of this volume; in particular, I wish to thank Antonella Lerario for providing support in the final editing of the text and images. 1 As reported in Boonstra and Rovers (200 I) , people spend a great deal of time inside buildings; therefore, decisions about design, construction, use, maintenance, renovation, demolition, reuse and recycling of buildings have a huge impact on the sustainable development of our society. Technical aspects, however, should be supported by adequate policies, developed with appropriate tools and driven by meaningful challenges. For people involved in sustainable buildings, the conceptual frameworks, studies and experiences collected in this volume, organized into three parts - "Policies", "Tools" and "Challenges" - will help to advance knowledge allowing them to adopt and more efficiently implement such innovations sooner.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Housing and Social Infrastructures Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy

    Nicola Maiellaro

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