Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery

By Charles J. Kibert

Book Overview

Focusing on green building as it applies to larger commercial, institutional buildings, Sustainable Construction provides a complete introduction to the design and construction of high-performance green buildings. By providing a thorough grounding on the subject, this insightful guide encourages you to realize the ecological and economic benefits of green building. Author Charles Kibert uses the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) suite of standards to explain the best practices in building procurement and delivery systems. Providing a detailed overview of the entire process of green building, he covers the theory, history, state of the industry, and best practices in green building. Whether you're an industry professional, building owner, or real estate developer, you'll gain the knowledge you need to test any of the myriad decisions that have to be made in design and construction -- from materials selection to considering the use of natural systems for wastewater processing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471661139
• ISBN13: 9780471661139
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

great book

thanks, this is a great book. It taught me a lot about green building and construction and it got me an A in my class!

Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition

This is a very useful book. I will recommend this book to the students and the professional for their reference.

Absolutely wonderful

This is a textbook required for my green design 2 class. It provides a huge amount of statistics and green construction methods. Compared to other books about sustainable construction, this one seems much more informative and looks at the real issues behind WHY we should be using sustainable construction.

A useful book for Going Green and Green Building Design and Delivery

Going Green is "the Next Big Thing" after the invention of the internet. It is one of the most important trends of this century. As Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment, and a professor in the M. E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida, Charles J. Kibert, PhD, PE, made an important contribution to the revolutionary trend of Going Green with "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery." "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery" covers the background, the history, theory, trend and development of the green building movement, and the process and best practices in green building. It discusses not only LEED, but also Green Globes and several other green building rating systems. It includes 3 parts and 14 chapters: Introduction and Overview Part I Green Building Foundations Background Green Building Assessment The Green Building Process Ecological Design Part II Green Building Systems Sustainable Sites and Landscaping Energy and Atmosphere The Building Hydrologic System Closing Materials Loop Indoor Environmental Quality Part III Green Building Implementation Construction Operation Building Commissioning Economic Analysis of Green Building The Cutting Edge and Beyond "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery" has 432 pages. It is a useful book for Going Green and Green Building Design and Delivery. Gang Chen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Author of "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Architectural Practice Simplified," "Planting Design Illustrated," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture

Covers everything...

Since I am the 1st person to review this book, I want to just say that I started with a smaller book that gave me the basics of green architecture, terminology and the run down on LEED and the USGBC. Next I followed up with this book and I must say that this book was EXTREMELY informative and covered everything in some way. Most of it was covered in detail and what wasnt covered in detail was touched upon, so you had an understanding of every aspect. I would recommend this book to ANYONE who is starting out towards LEED Accredation.