INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIGN

Description

You’re overseeing a large-scale project, but you’re not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the roles team members hold, and design approaches, including alternative development and financing structures. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainability within infrastructural systems, such as those for energy, water, and waste, so that you know what’s possible. And best of all, they present here for the first time the Zofnass Environmental Evaluation Methodology guidelines, which will help you and your team improve infrastructure design, engineering, and construction.

Edited by: Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos and Daniel Schodek

CONTENTS

Paul Zofnass: Foreword

Spiro Pollalis and Dan Schodek: Introduction: Sustainability: A Broad Perspective

Part 1: Dimensions of Sustainability

• Richard John: Climate Change and Infrastructure
• Gregory Norris: Resource Allocation
• Richard T.T. Forman: Infrastructure and Nature: Reciprocal Effects and Patterns for our Future
• Anthony Kane: Quality of Life
• Alexios Monopolis: Sustainable Wellness: The Convergence of Social and Ecological Wellbeing

Part 2: Sustainable Practices in Infrastructure Systems

• Tom A. Pedersen: Water Infrastructure and Sustainability Systems
• John Norton Jr.: The Evolution of Urban Water and Energy Infrastructure Systems
• George C. Kendrick: Sustainability Aspects of Large-Scale Wind Power Development
• Mike W. McLaughlin: Sustainable Solid Waste Infrastructure
• Susannah Kerr Adler et al.: Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
• James S. Grant et al.: Transportation: Aviation/Airports
• Erin Hyland and Joe Bryan: Sustainability in Ports, Freights and Logistics
• Christopher Benosky and Shaun O’Rourke: Ecological Infrastructure

Part 3: Assessing Urban Infrastructures

• The Zofnass Program Team: Issues in Assessing Urban Infrastructures
• The Zofnass Program Team: Current Environmental Evaluation Approaches
• Andreas Georgoulias and Jill Allen: The Zofnass Rating System for Infrastructure Sustainability and Decision-Making
• John Williams et al.: Economic Assessments of the Value of Sustainability

Part 4: Design and Planning for Infrastructure Sustainability

• Amy Edmondson et al.: Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?
• Dimitris Papanikolaou: Intelligent Infrastructures
• Pierre Bélanger: Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism Beyond Engineering
• Bill Valentine: Shaping the Built Environment and Infrastructure to Improve our Quality of Life
• Mohsen Mostafavi: Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?

364 pages, color ills / 22 x 28,5 cm / English