Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment: Environmental, Social and Economic Aspects

Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment: Environmental, Social and Economic Aspects presents the current state-of-the-art when it comes to the decision-making process for choosing construction materials to deliver sustainable construction projects. Aspects covered include the science of enhanced decision-making via operational research and machine learning techniques and how this can be implemented in various disciplines such as architecture, engineering, and construction. To this end, the book discusses environmental, economic, and social aspects in assessing construction materials and presents different tools and methods that can benefit and facilitate this process. It reviews previous publications on construction material selection and presents essential discussion about the role professionals, researchers, contractors, and governments play in making more sustainable decisions about the built environment. Presents a life-cycle management-based, systematic, and integrated approach for sustainable construction materials selection Discusses the impact of materials selection covering every aspect of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic aspects) Looks at the concept of the circular economy Presents case studies on decision making methods in combination with life cycle sustainability assessment INDICE: 1. Introduction Section I: Principles, approaches and standards regarding sustainable construction 2. The triple-bottom-line perspective and its importance for the Built Environment 3. Importance of Material Selection to achieve sustainable construction 4. Importance of decision making in Material Selection 5. Employing circular economy principles to enhance sustainability in the Built Environment 6. Standards and legal regulations Section II: Commonly used construction materials and their impacts 7. Introductory overview 8. Assessment of cement and concrete 9. Assessment of masonry 10. Assessment of wood 11. Assessment of steel 12. Concluding overview Section III: Tools and methods to benefit sustainable material choice 13. Introductory overview 14. Life cycle sustainability assessment for construction materials 15. Simulation tools to assist materials choice 16. Multi-criteria decision-making methods 17. Machine learning decision-making tools 18. Concluding overview Section IV: Practical application of a sustainable material selection 19. Case study I 20. Case study II 21. Case study III Introduction 22. Concluding overview Section V: Future efforts required to enhance the sustainability of construction material choice 23. How material selection could be optimized 24. Future research agendas and concluding overview

• ISBN: 9780323951227
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 720
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés