This easy-to-use guide helps specifiers, designers and their clients assess the relative environmental impacts of hundreds of elemental specifications for roofs, walls, floors etc. Data is set out as an A+ to E ranking system for environmental performance and impact based gives an overall BREEAM rating. INDICE: BUILDING TYPES: Commercial; Educational; Healthcare; Retail; Residential; industrial.BUILDING ELEMENTS: External walls; Internal walls and partitions; Roofs; Ground floors; Upper floors; Windows; Insulation; Landscaping; Floor finishes.ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES: Climate change; Water extraction; Mineral resource depletion; Stratospheric ozone depletion; Human toxicity; Ecotoxicity to freshwater; Nuclear waste; Ecotoxicity to land; Waste disposal; Fossil fuel depletion; Eutrophication; Photochemical ozone creation; Acidification
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-1961-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés