Ecodesign : a manual for ecological design / Ken Yeang.

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Main Author: Yeang, Ken, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 2006.
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505 0 0 |t What is ecodesign? --  |t The objective of ecodesign --  |t The basis for ecodesign --  |t Ecomimicry --  |t The general law and theoretical basis for ecodesign --  |t Interrogate the premises for the design --  |t Differentiate whether the design is for a product (with no fixed abode or with a temporary abode) or for a structure or an infrastructure (both abode or site specific) --  |t Determine the level of environmental integration that can be achieved in the design --  |t Evaluate the ecological history of the site (for the designed system) --  |t Inventory the designed system's ecosystem (site-specific design) --  |t Delineate the designed system's boundary as a human-made or composite ecosystem in relation to the site's ecosystem --  |t Design to balance the biotic and abiotic components of the designed system --  |t Design to improve existing, and to create new ecological linkages --  |t Design to reduce the heat-island effect of the built environment on the ecology of the locality --  |t Design to reduce the consequences of the various modes of transportation and of the provision of access and vehicular parking for the designed system --  |t Design to integrate with the wider planning context and urban infrastructure of the designed system --  |t Design for improved internal comfort conditions (of the designed system as an enclosure) --  |t Design to optimise all passive-mode (or bioclimatic design) options in the designed system --  |t Design to optimise all mixed-mode options in the designed system --  |t Design to optimise all full-mode options in the designed system --  |t Design to optimise productive-mode options in the designed system --  |t Design to optimise composite-mode options in the designed system --  |t Design to internally integrate biomass with the designed system's inorganic mass (eg by means of internal landscaping, improved indoor air quality (IAQ) considerations, etc) --  |t Design for water conservation, recycling, harvesting, etc --  |t Design for wastewater and sewage treatment and recycling systems --  |t Design for food production and independence --  |t Design the built system's use of materials to minimise waste based on the analogy with the recycling properties of the ecosystem --  |t Design for vertical integration --  |t Design to reduce light and noise pollution of the ecosystems --  |t Designing the built environment as the transient management of materials and energy input flows --  |t Designing to conserve the use of non-renewable energy and material resources --  |t Design for the management of outputs from the built environment and their integration with the natural environment --  |t Design the built system over its life cycle from source to reintegration --  |t Design using environmentally benign materials, furniture, fittings, equipment (FF&E) and products that can be continuously reused, recycled and reintegrated --  |t Design to reduce the use of ecosystem and biospheric services and impacts on the shared global environment (systemic integration) --  |t Reassess the overall design (ie product, structure or infrastructure) in its totality for the level of environmental integration over its life cycle --  |t What is the green aesthetic? --  |t Issues of practice --  |t The future of ecodesign --  |g App. 1.  |t Timeline of key international developments relating to the global environment --  |g App. 2.  |t Sustainable development --  |g App. 3.  |t The Rio Principles. 
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