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Summary
Summary
You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the roles team members hold, and design approaches, including alternative development and financing structures. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainability within infrastructural systems, such as those for energy, water, and waste, so that you know what's possible. And best of all, they present here for the first time the Zofnass Environmental Evaluation Methodology guidelines, which will help you and your team improve infrastructure design, engineering, and construction.
Author Notes
Spiro N. Pollalis is Professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School, practices as urban planner, and is the Chairman of the public company for the redevelopment of the site of the old Athens Airport in Greece.
Andreas Georgoulias is Lecturer at the Harvard Design School, where he teaches and researches sustainable development.
Stephen J. Ramos is an Assistant Professor in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia.
Daniel L. Schodek is the Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Design School, where he taught from 1969 until 2008.
Table of Contents
| ForewordPaul Zofnass |
| Introduction: Sustainability: A Broad PerspectiveSpiro Pollalis and Dan Schodek |
| Part 1 Dimensions of Sustainability |
| 1 Climate Change and InfrastructureRichard John |
| 2 Resource AllocationGregory Norris |
| 3 Infrastructure and Nature: Reciprocal Effects and Patterns for our FutureRichard T.T. Forman |
| 4 Quality of LifeAnthony Kane |
| 5 Sustainable Wellness: The Convergence of Social and Ecological WellbeingAlexios Monopolis |
| Part 2 Sustainable Practices in Infrastructure Systems |
| 6 Water Infrastructure and Sustainability SystemsTom A. Pedersen |
| 7 The Evolution of Urban Water and Energy Infrastructure SystemsJohn Norton Jr. |
| 8 Sustainability Aspects of Large-Scale Wind Power DevelopmentGeorge C. Kendrick |
| 9 Sustainable Solid Waste InfrastructureMike W. McLaughlin |
| 10 Sustainable Transportation InfrastructureSusannah Kerr Adler et al. |
| 11 Transportation: Aviation/AirportsJames S. Grant et al. |
| 12 Sustainability in Ports, Freights and LogisticsErin Hyland and Joe Bryan |
| 13 Ecological InfrastructureChristopher Benosky and Shaun O'Rourke |
| Part 3 Assessing Urban Infrastructures |
| 14 Issues in Assessing Urban InfrastructuresThe Zofnass Program Team |
| 15 Current Environmental Evaluation ApproachesThe Zofnass Program Team |
| 16 The Zofnass Rating System for Infrastructure Sustainability and Decision-MakingAndreas Georgoulias and Jill Allen |
| 17 Economic Assessments of the Value of SustainabilityJohn Williams et al. |
| Part 4 Design and Planning for Infrastructure Sustainability |
| 18 Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?Amy Edmondson et al. |
| 19 Intelligent InfrastructuresDimitris Papanikolaou |
| 20 Landscape Infrastructure: Urbanism Beyond EngineeringPierre Bélanger |
| 21 Shaping the Built Environment and Infrastructure to Improve our Quality of LifeBill Valentine |
| 22 Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?Mohsen Mostafavi |
