Eco-design of Buildings and Infrastructure

Bruno Peuportier, Fabien Leurent, Jean Roger-Estrade, Bruno Peuportier, Fabien Leurent, Jean Roger-Estrade

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781498780605
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Scienze ambientali

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation and simulation tools that integrate all ecodesign aspects (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, impact on biodiversity, depletion of resources, etc.) and provide genuine decision-aid instruments, based on a scientific approach, to all those involved in the urban environment (i.e. designers, builders and users).

The present book takes stock of five years of research under the Chair. It starts by presenting some methodological bases of ecodesign, life cycle assessments, impact studies, and methods for planning and transport. Several specific subjects are then covered, i.e. public transport, parking, road traffic, the environmental profile of building materials, building retrofits, energy management, and biodiversity. The last part of the book sets out how the knowledge and tools developed under the Chair were applied to a case study: Cité Descartes in Marne la Vallée (Ile de France).

This work is aimed at urban planners, local authorities, contracting clients, architects, engineering firms, contractors, building managers, research lecturers, and anyone interested in the environmental quality of the places we live in.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: background, new targets resulting from corporate social responsibility
• Part 1: Methodological bases
• Part 2: Practicing eco-design
• Part 3: Application to a case study, Cité Descartes
• Conclusions and perspectives
• Epilogue: the corporate point of view
• Index