Sustainable Steel Buildings reviews steel and its potential as a sustainable building material and shows how steel can be used to deliver buildings and structures with a high level of sustainability. The book’s main focus is on the advantages and disadvantages of steel and how those characteristics can be used under a range of international certification systems (DGNB, LEED, BREEAM, openhouse etc).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of contributors
1. Foreword
2. What does ‚Sustainable construction‘ mean? – An overview
3. Basic principles of sustainability assessment
4. Sustainable Steel Construction
5. Sustainability Certification Labels for Buildings
6. Case Studies and Life Cycle Assessment Comparisons
Index
Über den Autor
The Editors
Bernhard Hauke is CEO of bauforumstahl, the association of the German Steel Construction Industry
Markus Kuhnhenne is Professor of Sustainability of Metal Constructions at RWTH Aachen University
Mark Lawson is Professor of Construction Systems at the University of Surrey
Milan Veljkovic is Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at the Technical University of Delft
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