Sustainable Refurbishment.
Title:
Sustainable Refurbishment.
Author:
Shah, Sunil.
ISBN:
9781118387917
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents:
Sustainable Refurbishment -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Introduction to Building Refurbishment -- 1: What is Building Refurbishment? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definitions of Refurbishment -- 1.3 Building Refurbishment Market and Size -- Endnotes -- 2: Sustainable Refurbishment -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Overview of Sustainable Development -- 2.3 Sustainable Development and Building Refurbishment -- Endnotes -- 3: Occupant Evaluation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Changes in Work Patterns -- 3.3 Pre- and Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POE) -- Endnotes -- Part 2: Managing Refurbishment as a Process -- 4: Drivers for Sustainable Refurbishment? -- 4.1 Market Pressures -- 4.2 Return on Investment -- 4.3 Regulatory Incentives -- 4.4 Financial Incentives and Taxes -- 4.5 Climate Change -- 4.6 Corporate Responsibility -- 4.7 Skills -- Endnotes -- 5: Developing a Business Plan and Strategy -- 5.1 Costs and Risks to Refurbish -- 5.2 Barriers to Refurbishment -- 5.3 Delivering Commercially Viable Refurbishment -- 5.4 Factors to Consider to Improve the Performance -- 5.5 Defining the Strategy -- Endnotes -- 6: Managing Delivery -- 6.1 Delivering a Sustainable Refurbishment -- 6.2 Minor Refurbishment Approach -- 6.3 Major and Comprehensive Refurbishment Approach -- 6.4 Green Leases -- 6.5 ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standards -- 6.6 Energy Star -- 6.7 Managing-Delivery Checklist -- Endnote -- 7: Managing Impacts -- 7.1 International Standards -- 7.2 LEED and BREEAM -- 7.3 Project Sustainability Assessment -- 7.4 Performance Improvements from Standards -- 7.5 Behavioural Change -- Endnotes -- Part 3: Low-Carbon Technologies and Materials -- 8: Energy-Efficiency Measures -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Refurbishment Options and Approach -- 8.3 Assessing Costs of Energy-Efficiency Measures.
8.4 Fabric and Passive Energy-Efficiency Measures -- 8.5 Energy-Efficiency Measures-Mechanical -- 8.6 ESCOs and Energy-Performance Contracting -- 8.7 Energy-Efficiency and Low-Carbon Checklist -- 8.8 Health and Indoor-Environment Checklist -- Endnotes -- 9: Behavioural Change -- 9.1 Commissioning Buildings -- 9.2 Energy Conservation as a Behaviour -- Endnotes -- 10: Renewable Energy -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Photovoltaic (PV) Panels -- 10.3 Solar Thermal Hot-Water Systems -- 10.4 Wind Turbines -- 10.5 Biofuel Heating -- 10.6 Geothermal Energy -- 10.7 Combined Heat and Power (CHP) -- 10.8 Heat Pumps -- Endnote -- 11: Embodied Carbon -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Embodied Carbon Standards -- 11.3 Varying Embodied Carbon Values in Buildings -- CASE STUDY 1: London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA): Energy Case Study -- CASE STUDY 2: 89 Culford Road: Extreme Low-Carbon Dwelling Refurbishment -- CASE STUDY 3: Empire State Building to Become a Model of Energy -- Endnotes -- Part 4: Environmental Areas -- 12: Material Use and Resource Efficiency -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Material-Certification Schemes -- 12.3 Material Procurement -- 12.4 Designing-in Sustainable Materials -- 12.5 Material Resource Efficiency -- 12.6 Site Waste Management -- 12.7 Materials and Resource Efficiency Checklist -- Endnotes -- 13: Water Conservation -- 13.1 Performing a Water Audit -- 13.2 Reducing Water Use -- 13.3 Rainwater Harvesting -- 13.4 Flood Risk and Sustainable Drainage Systems -- 13.5 Water-Conservation Checklist -- Endnote -- 14: Biodiversity -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Green Roofs and Walls -- 14.3 Provision for Birds -- 14.4 Biodiversity Checklist -- Endnotes -- 15: Transport -- 15.1 Developing a Travel Plan -- 15.2 Delivery Travel Plans -- 15.3 Transport Checklist -- Glossary -- Further Reading and Websites -- Index -- Badvert.
Abstract:
This guide to green 'retro-fitting' for corporate real estate, facility managers and occupiers struggling to reduce their building's carbon footprint will help in the planning and management of a sustainable refurbishment programme. Facilities managers have a key role in improving and maintaining a building's sustainability credentials over its whole life - through benchmarking and developing improvement strategies, energy efficiency measures and installation of low carbon technologies, as well as through waste minimisation and appropriate material use. The first part of the book gives the context, providing the structure and linkage between the other chapters, together with an overview on sustainable development and refurbishment projects separately and the value gained from a sustainable refurbishment. Part 2 details the regulatory and financial drivers, together with market pressures, and provides an overview of where this is leading together with the implications for sustainable refurbishment. Part 3 provides technical support on carbon measures, helping to determine the feasibility of good practices as part of the refurbishment. Included is a review of energy efficiency, renewable and low carbon technologies and embodied carbon to enable lifecycle carbon calculations, together with the necessary behavioural change aspects needed to embed the changes. Linkages and benefits between the technologies will be highlighted. Part 4 reviews refurbishment from a wider environmental perspective, understanding the challenges and opportunities that exist for particular developments from a materials, water, biodiversity and transport perspective. Throughout the book, checklists are provided on typical activities and good practice that should be performed. These are expanded through relevant case studies and examples to show-case previous good practices
and lessons learnt. The book is structured to allow a matrix approach, with Parts 3 and 4 providing the technical information necessary to deliver a sustainable refurbishment; with sector relevance and best practice with case studies throughout the book.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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