Title page -- Foreword -- Welcome -- Contents -- Actions and Policies to Implement Sustainable Construction -- Energy Ratings Based on Measured Energy Consumption: A Practical Approach for Implementation of EPBD and Identification of High-Energy Use Buildings -- Achieving Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington DC -- Sustainability Recommendations for a Social Housing Project: Barreiros, Vitória (BR) -- Sustainable Housing: From Consensual Guidelines to Broader Challenges -- The Impacts of Residential Buildings - How to Identify Life Cycle Based Improvement Potentials -- The Contribution of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) to a Sustainable Built Environment -- Energy Efficiency of Old and New Buildings in Romania -- Construction Sites Environment Management: Establishing Measures to Mitigate the Noise and Waste Impact -- How to Attract Consumers and Real Estate Agents to Sustainable Housing -- Promoting the Environmental Management Systems into Construction Industry: The First Step -- Reasons to Consider the Deconstruction Process as an Important Practice to Sustainable Construction -- Methodology for the Application of Sustainable Construction -- The Calculation Model of the New Portuguese Thermal Regulation - Put Side by Side with Dynamic Simulation -- Local Actions to Improve the Sustainable Construction in Italy -- Alternative Network Geometry of Essential Networks for Enduring Sustainable Development -- The Certification of Buildings as an Enterprise Strategy of the Real Estate Sector: A National Scope Analysis -- The Sustainability in Rehabilitation and in its Education -- Sustainable Management of Existing Building Stock -- A Framework to Sustainable Renewal of Existing Building Stock in Brazil.

Sustainability and Natural Resources Uses at a South Brazilian University: Proposing an Environmental Plan to University of Passo Fundo -- The Service Integrated Envelope Applied for Sustainable Office Refurbishment -- Characterization of the Lisbon Elementary Public School Building Stock -- Overcoming the Barriers to Improving the Sustainability of Existing Commercial Office Buildings -- Sustainable Management of Existing Building Stock: A Strategy to Reduce the Energy Consumption and the Environmental Impact -- Housing and Information Society: Integration of ICT in the Existing Housing Stock -- Thermal Rehabilitation of a Student's Hostel Belonging to the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara -- Existence and Progress of Deterioration of Concrete Facades -- Environmental Assessment of the Maintenance of Facade Openings in Dwellings - The Dutch Case -- How Sustainable Rehabilitation Designers Really Are -- Sustainable Management of Building Stock Refurbishment by Using MCDM -- Renewal of a Big High Density Housing Block in Berlin Kreuzberg -- Sustainable Management of Buildings -- Effect of Balcony Glazing on the Durability of Concrete Structures in Nordic Climate -- Technical Solutions for Sustainability in Post-War Residential Areas -- Sustainable Technologies in the Refurbishment of Existing Building Envelopes in Italy -- Sustainable Recovery Approach to the Existing Housing Stock in Italy -- Living Building Concept: New Approach to Value Delivery in the Built Environment -- Measuring the Effect of Design Changes by a Neuro-Fuzzy System -- Building Sustainability Assessment Tools -- Early Design Stage Evaluation Tool for Sustainable Energy Systems in Large New Buildings -- The Use of EPDs in Building Assessment - Towards the Complete Picture -- Some Observation About the Efficiency of Building Sustainability Assessment Tools.

Vitória's Healthcare Buildings Environmental Performance Based on LEED/NC 2.2 -- Assisting the Commissioning of the Low-Energy Buildings Design: From a Methodology to a Dynamic Tool -- Selecting Aspects and Indicators in Environmental Assessment Methods for Buildings -- Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Building Assemblies -- Performance Assessment for Sustainable Construction: Lest We Forget About the Client -- Urban Bioclimatic Indicators for Urban Planers with the Software Tool SOLENE -- Perspectives of Building Sustainability Assessment -- Life Cycle Assessment of Construction Processes -- Optimization of Variable Selection for Sustainable Construction -- Sustainability Assessment of Building Refurbishing Operations -- The Portuguese LiderA System - From Assessment to Sustainable Management? -- Life Cycle Assessment of Steel and Reinforced Concrete Structures: A New Analysis Tool -- Constant or Variable Indoor Environments? Sustainable Option of Adaptive Thermal Comfort -- Developing a Method to Characterize Indoor Environmental Parameters in Naturally Ventilated Classrooms -- Towards an Integrated Decision Process of Sustainable Urban Projects -- Application of the EcoBlock method to Eco-Design - Electric Hand Dryers Versus Paper Towels -- Life Cycle Costing as Part of Decision Making - Use of Building Information Models -- A Fuzzy-Neural Tree Knowledge Model for the Assessment of Building's Transformation -- Design for Sustainability -- Splitting and Managing the Solar Spectrum for Energy Efficiency and Daylighting -- A Sustainable Technical System for Ventilated Facades -- Architectural Beam of Light Use of Daylight Pipes in Climates of High Latitude -- Examination of Solar Control of Existing Building Stock in Izmir and Suggestions for a Sustainable Future -- Energy Consumption of RC Buildings During Their Life Cycle.

Poly-Optimal Method of Designing Environmentally Friendly Buildings -- Natural Lighting in Office Buildings - Energy Saving Potencial in Electrical Lighting -- Gypsum Plasters for Energy Conservation -- Implementing the Low Energy Concept into Current Irish Housing Building Delivery Processes - Issues and Barriers -- Service Life Prediction for Buildings' Design to Plan a Sustainable Building Maintenance -- Durability Design of Metal Structures Based on Lifetime Safety Factor Method -- The Redesign for Residual Service Life of Existing Structures -- The Flexible and Upgradeable Facade Concept for Refurbishment -- Performance Based Design Using Life Cycle Cost Analysis -- Hygrothermal Profiles of Building Elements in the Context of Service Life Design -- Comparison of Two Structural Reuse Options of Two-by-Four Salvaged Lumbers -- Building Deconstruction and Building Heritage Preservation: A Case Study at Porto's World Heritage Historical Centre -- Organisation of Reverse Logistics Tasks in the Construction Industry -- Overview of Deconstruction Activities in Portugal -- Salvageability of Building Materials -- Reusability of Massive Wood Components -- Motives for Design for Disassembly in Building Construction -- Bionic Breathing Skin for Buildings -- An Ecosystem Based Biomimetic Theory for a Regenerative Built Environment -- Practices and Sustainable Principles on the Rural Constructions in Molise Region (Italy) -- Designing the Sustainable City of Tomorrow and Urban Sustainability -- Environmental Performance and Management of Sustainable Urban Projects -- Assessment on Urban Ecosystems -- The Compact City: An Urban Path Towards Sustainability in Arid Areas -- One Planet Living Pioneer Project -- Reflecting About the Emergence of Sustainable Urban Communities - A Social Ecological Point of View.

Sustainable Tourism Indicators for the Coastal Places. State of Research -- Sustainability and Human Comfort at Urban Level: Evaluation and Design Guidelines -- reCHARGEDcity21+ - From a Perforated, Shrinking City to a Energy-Self-Sufficient Town -- Methods in Sustainable Urban Process -- Towards Urban Sustainability: Trends and Challenges of Building Environmental Assessment Methods -- Green Cities of Tomorrow? -- Comprehensive Water and Nutrient Planning for Sustainable Design -- Noise Abatement from the Point of View Sustainable Environment -- Regenerating Lost Places in Old Cities (Link Linguistic with Sustainability) -- The Urban Planning Tools as Quality Control Device for Sustainable Projects -- Urban Rehabilitation with Sustainable Principles: The Case Study of Montefalcione, South Italy -- Sustainable Resources, Eco-Materials and Technologies -- Energy and Resources, Material Choice and Recycling Potential in Low Energy Buildings -- Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Portugal -- Lime-Metakaolin Mortars - Properties and Applications -- Characterisation of External Renderings of Rammed Earth Construction in Algarve -- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Made with Fine Recycled Concrete Aggregates -- Recycled Aggregate Production: Remark and Assessment of the Economical Advantage of a Case Study -- Be Aware: Built Environment Action on Waste Awareness and Resource Efficiency -- The Need and Means for Sustainable Use of Wood in the Tanzanian Construction Industry -- An Experimental Study on Properties of Mortar Mixing Activated Hwangtoh Considering Pozzolanic Reaction -- A Study on the Physical Properties of Hard Concrete Mixing Various Type of Recycled Aggregate -- Sustainable Steel Buildings Through Natural Fire Safety Concept -- Sustainable Concrete Production.

General Issues of Construction Materials Recycling in the USA.