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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy
David Cheshire
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy
David Cheshire
About This Book
This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment, the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process. This requires far-reaching change in established industry processes. How might this begin? What are the key fundamentals you need to know? How can a more effective model be applied? This book, a much-updated second edition of the author's previous work Building Revolutions, answers all your questions. Inspiring, but never overwhelming, the Handbook to Building a Circular Economy is your must-have companion to helping create a more sustainable future. It explains in simple and practical terms how the principles of a circular economy can be applied to the built environment, thereby reducing the resources required to construct, fit-out, maintain and refurbish buildings. Case studies include:
- The Forge, UK, by Landsec
- The Bath School of Art, UK, by Grimshaw
- Urban Mining and Recycling Experimental Unit, Switzerland, by Werner Sobek
- NASA Sustainability Base, USA, by William McDonough + Partners
- University of East Anglia Enterprise Centre, UK, by Architype
- Park 20|20, The Netherlands, by William McDonough + Partners.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication Page
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INTRODUCTION
- 01 WHAT IS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY?
- 02 WHY CREATE A CIRCULAR ECONOMY?
- 03 BUILT TO LAST?
- 04 STARTING AT THE END
- 05 CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES FOR BUILDINGS
- 06 BUILDING IN LAYERS
- 07 DESIGNING-OUT WASTE
- 08 DESIGN FOR ADAPTABILITY
- 09 DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY AND REUSE
- 10 SELECTING MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS
- 11 TURNING WASTE INTO A RESOURCE
- 12 CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS
- 13 VIRTUOUS CIRCLES
- 14 COMING FULL CIRCLE
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- IMAGE CREDITS