Oriel Prizeman

Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Building Conservation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume provides the latest research, guidance, examples, and methods for understanding, calculating, leveraging, and reducing embodied carbon in building conservation. This will be an essential resource for all building conservation and heritage practitioners including building surveyors, architects, and conservators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032864099
• ISBN-10: 1032864095
• Artikelnr.: 72652953

Autorenporträt

Oriel Prizeman is Professor of Sustainable Building Conservation at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Formerly a practicing Architect, she founded an MSc at Cardiff (2013) and Centre (2021). She was board member of the Association for Preservation Technology (USA) 2015-17 and of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (UK) 2024-.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Part One: Approaches and Definitions. 2: Whole Life Cycle
Analysis as an imperative for Sustainable Building Conservation. 3:
Understanding the Micro-Credentials of Embodied Carbon from a Materials
Science Perspective. 4: Restoration vs Redevelopment: Embodied Carbon in
Conserving a 20th Century Heritage in India. 5: Carnegie libraries of
Britain: Assets or liabilities? Managing altering agendas of energy
efficiency for early 20th century heritage. 6: Characteristics of grassland
burning in the Aso Cultural Landscape, Japan. 7: Case study: Rehabilitating
the Nineteenth Century housing blocks of Alexandria. 8: Retrofit Case
Studies: An historic university accommodation building and a traditional
solid walled house in Ireland. 9: Embodied Carbon as pivot: The case of
M&S. 10: Conclusion