Details and Materials for Resilient Sites

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Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.

Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

It provides strategies, tools, and detailed information for the practice of climate positive design. Reduced carbon, resource efficient materials, and material mixes are addressed for both standard and alternative materials including stone, concrete, asphalt pavement, brick, earth-based materials, wood, biobased materials, metals, and plastics. Construction considerations are discussed and illustrated, and strategies to reduce environmental impacts are offered. Emphasis is placed on durable, resource efficient structures, and reduced embodied carbon approaches for pavements, porous pavements, green roofs, bioengineered embankments, retaining walls freestanding walls, decks and boardwalks, and rails, fences, and screens. Exemplary case studies from around the world are highlighted, and key resources such as assessment tools, information transparency tools, and benchmarking measures are provided.

Responding to the need for landscape architecture to account for climate change, resource consumption, and habitat destruction, this important book is key reading for both professionals and students alike.

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1. Introduction: Details and Materials for Resilient Sites 2. Decarbonization of Materials and Structures 3. Resource Efficiency and the Circular Economy 4. Healthy and Ethical Materials and Products 5. Assessing the Impacts of Materials, Products and Structures STRUCTURES AND ASSEMBLIES FOR RESILIENT SITES 6. Pavements 7. Porous Pavements and Green Roofs 8. Retaining Walls and Bioengineered Embankments 9. Freestanding Walls 10. Decks and Boardwalks 11. Rails, Fences, and Screens MATERIALS FOR RESILIENT SITES 12. Aggregates and Sand Materials 13. Stone Materials 14. Concrete Materials and Products 15. Asphalt Pavement Materials 16. Earth-based Materials 17. Fired Clay Bricks 18. Wood Materials and Products 19. Biobased Materials and Products 20. Metals and Metal Products 21. Plastics and Plastic Products