Biomimicry and Sustainable Building Performance - Olusegun Aanuoluwapo Oguntona, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa

Biomimicry and Sustainable Building Performance

A Nature-inspired Sustainability Guide for the Built Environment
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-53896-9 (ISBN)
189,95 inkl. MwSt
This book on biomimcry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainablity assessment tool. It is important reading for academics, professionals, and advanced students in the built environment, engineering and sustainable development.
This book on biomimicry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainability assessment tool.

By exploring and drawing lessons from biomimicry principles, the book provides a nature-inspired assessment tool to aid and guide the sustainable transformation of the built environment. The book encapsulates the attributes of the conceptualised biomimicry assessment tool, which is aimed at helping practitioners, regulatory bodies, and governmental and non-governmental agencies in greening the built environment. Owing to the dire need for country-specific and tailor-made tools that address developing countries' needs, this book serves as a practical reference and theoretical springboard for the development of sustainability assessment tools for the built environment. Furthermore, the book serves as a guide in navigating the path towards achieving the greening agendas of the built environment and other sectors and seeks to align the new biomimicry assessment tool with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

It is important reading for academics, professionals and advanced students in the built environment, engineering, and sustainable development.

Olusegun Aanuoluwapo Oguntona is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa is a Full Professor at the Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

PART 1: BACKGROUND

1. General Introduction

PART 2: SUSTAINABILITY TRENDS IN CONSTRUCTION

2. Sustainability Nexus in The Construction Industry

3. Sustainable Construction Trends and Practices

4. Understanding the Green Building Concept

5. Biomimicry Paradigm: Nature Inspiration and Emulation

PART 3: SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND RATING IN CONSTRUCTION

6. Sustainability Assessment Tools in The Construction Industry

7. Sustainability Tools and Methods for Building Evaluation

8. Green Initiatives and Building Sustainability Assessment in South Africa

PART 4: BIOMIMICRY SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT TOOL (BioSAT)

9. Gaps in Sustainability Assessment Tools Research

10. The Conceptual Biomimicry Sustainability Assessment Tool

11. The Future of Biomimicry Sustainability Assessment Tool

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research Collections for Construction in Developing Countries
Zusatzinfo 42 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, color; 11 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 689 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-032-53896-1 / 1032538961
ISBN-13 978-1-032-53896-9 / 9781032538969
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