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Using version 2.2 of the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and other tools, Charles Kibert explains the best practices in building procurement and delivery systems. From materials selection to the use of natural systems for wastewater processing, this comprehensive text covers all of the factors involved with sustainable construction. In a clear and accessible writing style, Dr Kibert addresses issues so that the reader can think critically and independently as part of the cutting edge in green building.
Features:
- Up-to-date survey covers the new approach to delivering high performance "green" buildings in an easy-to-understand style.
- Designed to provide a detailed insight into the USGBC LEED building assessment standard, as well as other international and domestic approaches to green building.
- Broad enough to cover the needs of faculty and students in architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, interior design, and construction management.
- Provides a reference for building owners and buyers of construction services to learn about a new emerging process that makes good economic sense, but which is also environmentally sound.
The green building movement has come a long way in a short time. Responding to this exponential growth, with its attendant technological as well as aesthetic developments, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Deliver, 2nd Edition guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's marketplace.
In this revised edition, Charles Kibert delivers a detailed, and passionate, overview of the entire process of green building, covering the theory, history, state of the industry, and best practices in green building. Kibert uses not only the dominant LEED assessment system, but includes such newer ones as Green Globes and several noteworthy building assessment systems from other countries. Sections introduce the background of the green building movement and walk you through such aspects as:
- The background of high-performance green building design.
- Green-building assessment.
- The green building process.
- Ecological design.
Broad enough to cover the needs of faculty and students in architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, interior design, and construction management, yet focused enough to serve as a reference for building owners and buyers of construction services, Sustainable Construction is a comprehensive look at an emerging process that is environmentally sounds while making good economic sense.
Preface to the Second Edition
Several major changes to the first edition of this book are the result of providing more foundational material regarding the rationale for green building. A range of ethical arguments supporting sustainability and, by extension, sustainable construction is provided in Chapter 2, "Background." These are essential to any discussion of sustainability because at the end of the day, sustainability distills to what is the right thing to do. In addition to the well-known Precautionary Principle, a wide variety of other supporting arguments are provided, for example, the Reversibility Principle, Distributional Equity, and Protecting the Vulnerable. A much wider discussion of ecological design is provided in Chapter 5, "Ecological Design," particularly about future ecological design and the thinking that is likely to influence it, for example, biomimicry, cradle-to-cradle design, adaptive management, natural capitalism, and Factor 4/Factor 10. Although the USGBC LEED rating system remains the main driving force behind green building in the United States, other approaches, such as Green Globes, have begun to emerge as competitors, providing alternative paths and sorely needed competition. The chapters of this book on site and landscaping, water, energy, materials, and indoor environmental quality provide information about the structure of both LEED for New Construction (LEED-NC) Version 2.2 and Green Globes v.1.
In this edition there are also contributions from several experts on key green building issues. In Chapter 3, "Green Building Assessment," Alex Zimmerman provides some innovative thinking on how to develop the next generation of LEED rating tools by basing them as much as possible on the laws of physics. Chapter 4, "The Green Building Process," now contains an extended discussion of the integrated design process, an important facet of green building design, the goal of which is to develop synergistic working relationships between project team members. Chapter 5, "Ecological Design," summarizes the perspective of Bill Reed on how to shift from sustainable design, which represents today's best practices, to a state where regenerative design is the norm. Rather than simply straddle the breakeven point by doing minimal damage, which sustainable design represents, regenerative design suggests restoration as the norm and as a more holistic relationship between humans and nature. Chapter 7, "Energy and Atmosphere," now contains an extended case study of exceptional building energy system design for River Campus One, a medical facility of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. This case study was kindly provided by Interface Engineering, Inc. Similarly in Chapter 9, "Closing Materials Loops," David Hobbs, President of InterfaceFLOR Commercial, Inc., details the company's journey in pursuit of meeting the mandate of Ray Anderson to become the world's first truly sustainable corporation by describing the evolution of the design of their key product, carpet tiles. In the final chapter, Chapter 14, "The Cutting Edge and Beyond," there are two new case studies that describe the key aspects of the San Francisco Federal Building, designed by Morphosis Architects, and the Forensic Science Center in Philadelphia, designed by the Croxton Collaborative. Chapter 14 also covers a new cutting-edge topic associated with green buildings, passive survivability.
Charles J. Kibert
From the Foreword
According to the United Nations, there are 6.7 billion of us on Earth, a number that will rise, perhaps, to more than 9 billion by midcentury. Last year, the level of carbon in the atmosphere took its largest jump (three parts per million) since measurements began, and the evidence of climate change is now everywhere. The World Meteorological Organization estimates that 150,000 people died last year due to climate change - driven weather extremes - 15,000 in France alone. Nature magazine, the British counterpart to Science, reports that 90 percent of large predatory fishes are now gone. We have good reason to believe that the health of the oceans is in a sharp downward spiral due to pollution, overfishing, and loss of estuaries. Forests are disappearing at record rates, along with many species of life. We are at or near the mid point of oil extraction while world demand for oil is rising sharply. Worldwide, wealth continues to concentrate in the very upper echelons of a new class of super- wealthy, while 2 billion live in conditions of absolute poverty. And presently there is no system of governance - national or global - adequate to the challenge of reversing these and related trends in a timely, orderly, and humane manner.
The challenge of the twenty-first century requires that we make a transition to a new order of things that can be sustained within the limits of natural systems. This will require rethinking old and threadbare assumptions about economics, governance, ethics, and security as parts of a revolution in how humankind is provisioned with food, energy, water, materials, and shelter. But the transition to something far better than what is now in prospect is not a technological problem as much as it is a matter of politics and leadership.
In this sense, perhaps the most promising developments in the transition to sustainability are now under way in the latter category, evident in the emergence of a robust movement in the design and building industry. With the leadership of many people, including Bob Berkebile, Bill Browning, Amory Lovins, Susan Maxman, Bill McDonough, Steven Strong, Adrian Tuluca, Sim van der Ryn, Steven Winter, and, not the least, the author of this book, the art and science of green building is rapidly gaining ground. These are practical visionaries, aware of the promise and perils that lie ahead. The results are evident in the growing number of buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council and the larger number now being designed to LEED standards. But this is far from a U.S. monopoly. High-performance buildings are becoming the norm throughout the world as the design professions are being transformed by a sense of ecological emergency, the awareness of new design possibilities based on the science of ecology, a revolution in materials and technology, and a more acute sense of the full costs of buildings, both to the owner and to the larger society.
Green, or high-performance, buildings are not, however, more clever adaptations of existing practice or merely the application of better intentions. They are rather like the transition from typewriters to notebook computers, both of which produce paper inscribed with symbols. One, however, requires a periodic ribbon change; the other, software and networking to do many other things as well. As described in this book, the process of green design requires "front-loading" the design process to regard buildings, surrounding landscapes, and entire communities as systems embedded in ecologies and cultures. This further requires that designers and clients see buildings and landscapes as systems, not as unrelated parts, and the design process as an integrated conversation involving programming intentions, locality, energy systems, controls, materials, water, and form. The transition from linear and piecemeal planning and design to systems design in a microcosm is indicative of the larger paradigmatic changes under way worldwide.
The barriers to green or systems design are often said to be economic - a matter of cost. But the evidence cited here and elsewhere indicates that high-performance buildings can be made to be cost-effective. For example, some of the costs associated with higher energy efficiency (tighter shell, more insulation, better glazing, daylighting, smarter landscaping, etc.) should be offset by lower costs to buy, operate, and eventually replace larger HVAC equipment. Second, better buildings are known to increase the comfort, the happiness, and, therefore, the productivity of those living and working in them, which is directly translated into increased profit and value. Third, there are collateral benefits that arise from better design that are no less real for being unpredictable and difficult to quantify. In other words, the real barriers to green design are not so much economic as they are those of imagination and design competence.
On both counts, Charles Kibert stands out as a leader in the field and a reliably competent guide through the complexities of delivering high-performance green buildings. As director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida, he is both a practitioner and a theorist. Few, if any, have done more to transform our sense of construction and buildings as ecological processes and practical good sense. There is a revolution in building design quickly gathering steam - a revolution that is manifest in buildings that function as ecologies existing in larger ecologies. The question is no longer whether we build with ecological intelligence, but how.
David W. Orr
About the Author
Charles J. Kibert, PhD, PE, is 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. He is a board member of the Green Building Initiative, the Florida Green Building Coalition, and the Gulf Coast Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. He is the cofounder and chairman of the Cross Creek Initiative, Inc., a nonprofit organization established to accelerate the implementation of sustainability principles in building design, construction, and operation. He teaches and supervises master's and doctoral students who are majoring in the sustainable construction program that he developed at the University of Florida.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview. Part 1: Green Building Foundations. Chapter 2: Background. Chapter 3: Green Building Assessment. Chapter 4: The Green Building Process. Chapter 5: Ecological Design. Part II: Green Building Systems. Chapter 6: Sustainable Sites and Landscaping. Chapter 7: Energy and Atmosphere. Chapter 8: The Building Hydrologic System. Chapter 9: Closing Materials Loops. Chapter 10: Indoor Environmental Quality. Part III: Green Building Implentation. Chapter 11: Construction Operations. Chapter 12: Building Commissioning. Chapter 13: Economic Analysis of Green Buildings. Chapter 14: The Cutting Edge and Beyond. Appendix A: Overview of LEED for New Construction Version 2.2 (LEED-NC 2.2). Appendix B: Overview of LEED for Existing Building Version 2.0 (LEED-EB 2.0). Appendix C: Overview of LEED for Core and Shell Version 2.0 (LEED-CS 2.0). Appendix D: Overview of LEED for Commercial Interiors Version 2.0 (LEED-CI). Appendix E: Green Globes v.1. Index. |
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