Construction for a Sustainable Environment

Robert Sarsby, Tamas Meggyes, Robert Sarsby, Tamas Meggyes

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780415566179
• eBook ISBN: 9780203856918
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The past fifty years have seen rapid development of public and governmental awareness of environmental issues. Engineers and scientists have made tangible contributions to environmental protection. However, further theoretical and practical developments are necessary to address mankinds growing demands on the environment. Construction for a Sustai

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Keynote presentations
• Mineral barriers in landfill capping systems – Conditions of durability
• Preventing pollution caused by mining activities
• MOKKA: Modern engineering tools for environmental risk management
• Physical modelling of New Orleans levee flood protection system performance during Hurricane Katrina: London Avenue and Orleans Canal
• Assessment of the use of recycled aggregates in vibro-stone column ground improvement techniques
• The BORASSUS Project: Towards an integrated approach to soil conservation
• Engineered disposal of wastes
• Asphalt liners in landfill construction
• Optimization of disposal logistics for household waste
• Application of the experience from the industrial landfill mining in the Vienna basin to problems of threshold and developing countries
• Long-term hazard to drinking water resources from landfills
• Novel criteria to classify the stabilization of organic material
• New model laws to calculate long-term hazards to drinking water resources from landfills
• Spontaneous ignition of plastic deposits and avoidance by fire protection measures and subsequent transformation of plastics i to mineral oil
• Evaluation of gas regime and climatic influence in an ageing municipal solid waste landfill site: A case study
• Pretreatment of waste prior to landfilling
• Recycling different wastes to produce ‘topsoil’ for seeding embankment slopes
• Treatment of contaminated and derelict land
• Innovative technology for metal-polluted soils – Combined chemical and phytostabilisation
• Cyclodextrins for the enhancement of soil remediation technologies
• Multistage verification of soil remediation
• Environmental Risk Management of diffuse pollution of mining origin
• Direct testing of soil mutagenicity
• In situ delineation of point sources and high resolution mapping of polluted sites by field-portable X-ray fluorescence measuring device
• Reclamation and cultivation of the Cracow soda plant lagoons
• Investigation and remediation of oil lagoons – Selected technological approaches
• Bioremediation of soils contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons using a natural biodegradable product
• Phytostabilisation – An appropriate remediation technique for metals in soils along highways
• Remediation of arsenic-contaminated groundwater
• Rationalisation of water use in multistage washing of dispersive materials
• An old quarry: Natural attenuation remediates historic ignorance
• Trace element features in Yanzhou-Jining-Tengzhou mining site: A case study
• Sustainable construction and infrastructure
• Fly ash and silica fume for green shotcrete
• Effect of curing regime on the bearing capacity of soil stabilized with class F fly ash and cement
• Partnering for a greener future
• Interaction between cement and superplasticizer in pozzolanic mineral admixtures
• Environmental and engineering properties of processed Portuguese steel slags
• Rebuilding of a road across an old Jewish cemetery in northern Poland
• Use of waste glass as fine aggregate in structural concrete
• Palm mat geotextiles for soil strengthening
• Assessment of environmental effects of treatment agents used in road building materials
• Evaluation of the safety of Jinnah powerhouse by Finite Element Analysis
• Influence of vertical stress on elongation of geotextile straps used as reinforcement in earth retaining structures
• Effect of partial substitution of cement by pulverised fuel ash on the compressive strength material
• Glass reinforced plastic waste characterisation and recycling potential
• Experimental investigation of the water purification action of porous media
• Use of crushed concrete and crushed brick as structural fill
• Influence of test method on the value of compaction parameters for coarse-grained furnace slag
• Supporting the natural environment
• Debris flow near Stambach (Austria) – A successful example of bioengineering stabilisation
• Rainfall simulator study of the erosion control potential of palm geotextiles for mine dam slope stabilization
• Influence of climate change on foundations in swelling soils
• Use of municipal wastewater and composted wastewater sludge in willow short rotation coppice in Estonia
• Non-destructive measurement of oil pipe wall thickness
• Mass stabilisation technique for soft peat, mud, clay and sediment
• Effects of tobacco waste tipping on the Sefton coastal dunes (North-West England)
• The effect of hydrocarbon spills on the geotechnical properties of a clay soil
• Compensation of nutrients removed through extraction of forest fuel
• Romanian experience in the implementation of European regulations regarding manure management
• Evaluation of biological geotextiles for reduction of runoff and soil loss
• Dynamic analysis of Ecological Footprint and its prediction using the Grey Model in a coalmining area (Huaibei city, China)
• Arsenic, salts and old factories: Contaminant hydrogeology and administrative procedures
• Author index
• Back cover