Meg Calkins

Details and Materials for Resilient Sites

A Climate Positive Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032538570
• ISBN-10: 1032538570
• Artikelnr.: 72488622

Autorenporträt

Meg Calkins, FCELA, FASLA, is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at North Carolina State University. She holds an MLA and MArch from the University of California at Berkeley and has taught and written about resilient site design and sustainable construction for over twenty-five years. Meg is also the author of Materials for Sustainable Sites (2008) and editor of the Sustainable Sites Handbook (2012). She has been a frequent Contributing Editor to Landscape Architecture magazine writing several articles on site construction materials and exemplary designed works, and she won the Bradford Williams Medal for Journalistic Excellence in 2003. Meg has taken an active leadership role in development and implementation of the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) since 2003. In 2023-24, Meg received a Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Leadership and Innovation where she developed key themes for this book. She currently serves on the LAF Board of Directors.

Inhaltsangabe

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