environmental construction Books and Publications

ASTM Standards on Building Economics: 6th Edition (CD-ROM)

This new edition provides a comprehensive resource for evaluating the economic performance of investments in buildings, building systems, and other constructed facilities. Learn how to: • Decide whether to accept or reject a given investment • Design and size building systems • Establish ...

By ASTM International

Information Access Mechanisms: Collecting & Disseminating the Information Necessary for Environmental Protection

This process of interaction and mutual influence among various groups within a society -- the public, business interests, and government -- characterizes a functioning democratic system. Yet such effective interaction is impossible without the free exchange of full and accurate information that can form the basis of individual and collective changes in behavior. Access to information -- in the ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Education and Training in Indoor Air Sciences

Many buildings fail to perform adequately, causing illness and productivity loss among the inhabitants. The growing impact of this problem on people and property values - and the increasing litigation to which it gives rise - clearly reveals the limitations in and piecemeal character of the current education of building and health professionals in addressing the relationship between a ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Strategies for Resolving Environmental Land Use Disputes: Leading Lawyers on Responding to Changing Environmental Protection Standards, Ensuring Compliance in New Construction, and Improving Brownfield Redevelopment (Inside the Minds)

This product provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on advising clients on handling outstanding environmental issues, liabilities, and risks involved in land use development. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, the book guides the reader through the ...

By Thomson Reuters (Westlaw)

Water Treatment Plant Design, Fifth Edition

An engineering design classic, Water Treatment Plant Design is your total reference on water treatment plant upgrades or new construction. ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Open Ground: Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural Resources

The preservation of open space has captured the public"s imagination. Disappearance of open space is associated with the general degradation of the quality of community life, and in a broader sense, what is happening to open space is what is happening to the local environment. Most books on environmental ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

ASTM Standards on TRANSPORTATION APPLICATIONS

"This efficient and cost-effective 3-volume set focuses on all aspects of transportation engineering. It allows the practitioner in these fields to access the latest versions of standards directly related to transportation design, construction and maintenance." Professor Thomas C. Sheahan, Civil & ...

By ASTM International

M61 Desalination of Seawater

As worldwide fresh water supplies become increasingly stressed from population growth and uncontrolled water use, desalination of seawater has become an increasingly sought-after alternative for new water supply in coastal areas. AWWA Manual of Water Supply Practices M61 provides technical and planning guidance for drinking water utilities that currently operate, are developing, or are ...

By American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Materials Engineering and Environmental Science

This book consists of one hundred and nine selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015), which was successfully held in Wuhan, China during September 25–27, 2015. All papers selected for this proceedings were subjected to a ...

By World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Wetlands Ecosystems in Asia: Function and Management

Description Wetlands are among the most important and productive ecosystems on earth. Wetlands are valuable as sources, sinks and transformers of a multitude of chemical, biological and genetic materials. They stabilize water supplies, clean polluted waters, protect shorelines, and recharge groundwater aquifers. In recent years, the importance of wetland conservation has been recognized by ...

By Elsevier Inc.

Marine Wastewater Outfalls and Treatment Systems

Wastewater disposal by marine outfalls is proven and effective and is a reliable and cost effective solution with minimal environmental impacts. The design and siting of submarine outfalls is a complex task that relies on many disciplines including oceanography, civil and environmental engineering, marine ...

By IWA Publishing

Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters

Internationally, the wetlands of headwater and upland regions provide many valuable environmental services. They influence flood flows, sediment loads and aquifer recharge; biochemical water qualities and biodiversity. They affect the livelihoods of many communities providing water, peat, timber, grazing, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters

Internationally, the wetlands of headwater and upland regions provide many valuable environmental services. They influence flood flows, sediment loads and aquifer recharge; biochemical water qualities and biodiversity. They affect the livelihoods of many communities providing water, peat, timber, grazing, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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