CONTENT
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Hardware and Software
Requirements
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General Directions
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Textbooks
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Grading Scheme
·
Course Modules
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Index of References on
the BCN6585 Compact Disc (CD)
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Internet access
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A laptop or desktop computer equipped with an internet connection
(modem or LAN), and CD-ROM
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A web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer)
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Adobe Acrobat plug-in
a. The Syllabus for BCN6585 Sustainable Construction describes the requirements for each of the 15 Course Modules in this course, the student requirements, and the grading scheme. Each module is anticipated to require 9 hours of student work including readings, Module Assignments, and Course Task. A Module corresponds to a week’s worth of classes in a conventional university setting. The Module Assignments and Course Task are described in the Course Modules when they are to occur. It is imperative that the student complete the course requirements in a timely fashion to satisfactorily pass the course.
b. Every module has a Module Assignment comprised of readings, either in a detailed fashion or a cursory manner. These latter readings are indicated by the direction to Scan them.. The Module assignment. The Module Assignments should be returned to the instructor via the course assignment delivery system. The student may complete only one other Module Assignment before receiving an acknowledgement of satisfactory completion from the instructor.
c. This grades for this course are based on two papers, a group project, and quizzes:
(1) There are two required papers: a 2,000 word short paper and a 4,000 word long paper. The two papers must be on different topics and must be original work by the student and must not have been submitted for other courses in any other educational institution. For each paper the student must submit in hard copy a 200-300 word abstract for the instructor’s approval. Once approved the students must submit a detailed outline which contains the names of all titles of all sections and subsections of the paper down to the second level. The student may write each paper upon approval of the paper outline. Topics for the paper may be on the general topic of sustainable development for the first paper and must be specifically on a green building or sustainable construction topic for the second paper.
(2) The group project for this course will be assigned by the second week of the course. Generally the project will be a real world project that involves a building that a local agency or company is interested in greening. The project will rely on the LEED standard for guiding the decisions to be made during the project. The written submission for the project will comprise written text, sketches, product data, appropriate graphics and other material to support the group’s recommendations to the client. The submission should be not less than 10 pages of single spaced written text, plus other supporting materials arranged in a logical manner. The written portion should include a title page and a table of contents that is not a part of the page count. Two copies of the written materials will be submitted to the instructor, one for grading and one for the client.
(3) Each week at the start of class, the students may be quizzed on the reading materials assigned for that class. The only materials the student may use in taking the quiz are their personal handwritten notes on the readings.
d. The reading assignments in the Course Modules are keyed to books, papers, or other documents located in the textbooks, the Environmental Building News (EBN) Archives or on the BCN6585 Course CD. You can access the hyperlinked documents on the internet or the Course CD. However the Course CD approach is much faster and does not depend on having an internet connection available. By clicking on the hyperlink for the readings in each module, you will launch that particular document or Powerpoint lecture. They will either appear as a normal HTML document, enabled to be read by Adobe Acrobat if they are a PDF file, or by MS-Word or Powerpoint depending on their format. This will happen automatically as you launch each document.
e. When the assignment is to Read the reference, it is intended that you gain a thorough understanding of the book, paper, or other material. Scan means to obtain a cursory understanding or familiarity with the subject matter of the assignment. View means that the student should page through the Powerpoint lecture. For Visiting Internet assignments, you must obviously be connected via a network or dial-up service to the internet. You are responsible for becoming generally familiar with the issues and current activities of the organizations at these sites. The following are the abbreviations corresponding to the major divisions of references on the CD:
BF: Turning Brownfields into Vital Community
Assets (Charles J. Kibert, T. Vetica, and Nicole Kibert)
CE: Construction Ecology: Nature as the Basis for Green Building, C.
Kibert, J. Snedzimir, and G. Guy, Eds., London: Spon Press, 2002
GFF: Greening Federal Facilities
(Charles Kibert, Doug Hornbeck, and
CCD: Reference contained on the
Course CD
EBN: EBN Archives on CD (Most
recent edition)
PP: Power Point Presentation
RBE: Reshaping the Built
Environment, Charles J. Kibert, Ed.,
TEXTBOOKS
The BCN6585 course has four required textbooks:
(1)
Reshaping the Built Environment, Charles J. Kibert, Ed.,
(2)
Construction Ecology: Nature as the Basis for Green Building, C. Kibert,
J. Sendzimir, and G. Guy, Eds., London: Spon Press, 2002. Available from
amazon.com or the publisher:
Customer
Services
7625 Empire Drive
Tel: 800 634 7064
Fax: 800 248 4724
Email: cserve@routledge-ny.com
(3)
EBN Archives, latest edition, Environmental Building News. Available from the following address. Be sure
to mention you are a
Building Green, Inc.
Tel: 802-257-7300
Fax: 802-257-7304
Email: archives@ebn.com
(4)
The Course CD has all course
materials other than the course textbooks and those on the EBN CD. You should request this from the instructor
when starting the course: ckibert@ufl.edu
GRADING SCHEME
Overview: The course requirements
comprise 15 Module Assignments and a Course Paper. The maximum point value of each of these
requirements is shown below.
Short Paper: 100 points
Long Paper: 200 points
Course Project: 200 points
Presentation of Course
Project: 50 points
Quizzes: 50 points (each)
Total Points Achievable 550 points + Quiz Points
Grading: The final student grade
will be a letter grade based on the percentage of the Total Points
Achievable. The grades based on the
percentage are as follows:
A:
93% or greater B+: 88-92% B: 83-87% C+:
78-82% C: 73-77%
D:
68-72% F: 67% or less
Grading Method: Grading will be based foremost on the quality
of the submissions by the students. All references
must be fully specified at the end of each assignment and keyed into the
written text by author, year, and page number(s) if the citation is a
book. Spelling and grammar are also
subject to evaluation and will be considered in the grading of the
assignments. Presentations will be
graded based on the quality of the student’s oral presentation, the quality of
the graphics and written material supporting the presentation, and quality of
integration of the team presentation.
FORMAT FOR COURSE PAPERS
The
format for your Course Task paper is given at this link. The student is expected to use references in
addition to those supplied on the Course CD.
For guidance, at least 50% of the references must be from sources found
by the students and no more than 50% of these may be internet references. The following are some basic directions for
citing references in your paper. Note
that citations refer to showing the source of information within the paper
itself. References are the list of
sources for citations in the paper and are located at the end of the paper, in
alphabetical order.
Examples of
Citations:
Journal Citation
The industrial output of the
Book Citation
Healthy buildings raise the productivity of the occupants anywhere from 20-35% according to recent surveys (Smitheren and Scott 1997, 361-2)
Examples of
References:
Journal or
periodical
Hamilton,
J. A. 1998. Resource impacts on industrial output. Journal of Industrial
Ecology. 18: 123-5. (Note the 18:123-5 refers to Volume 18 of the reference and
its page numbers, pages 123 through 125.)
Book
Smitheren,
S. J. and
Internet
Austin Green Builder Program,
1. Introduction:
Sustainability in the Built Environment
Learning Objectives:
(1)
Various definitions of Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction
(2)
“Strong” versus “Weak” Sustainability
(3)
Sustainable Development relative to the interconnection of ecological,
economic, and social conditions.
(4)
Sustainable Construction as the implementation of Sustainable Development in
the economic sector known as the Built Environment
(5)
General current thinking about Sustainable Development and Sustainable
Construction
(6)
Worldwide efforts in Sustainable Development and Sustainable Construction.
(7) International organizations involved in Sustainable
Development and Sustainable Construction
(8)
Agenda 21, the Brundtland Commission, the President’s Council on Sustainable
Development
(9) The Green Buildings Concept
a. Read:
(1)
Principles
of Sustainable Construction (Charles
J. Kibert) (CCD)
(2)
Chapter 1: Introduction (Charles J. Kibert) (RBE)
(3)
Chapter 2: Limits and Promises of Sustainability (Charles J. Kibert) (RBE)
(4)
EBN’s “Checklist for Environmentally Responsible Design & Construction”
(EBN)
(5)
Sustainable
Construction at the Start of the 21st Century (Charles J.
Kibert)
Note: this is a paper in the
International Electronic Journal of Construction (IeJC). You need to click on
Special Issues, then on the special issue, Future of Sustainable Construction,
then on this paper.
(6)
Boiling
Frogs, Bursting Dykes and the End of the World as We Know It (Chrissna du
Plessis)
Note: this is a paper in the
International Electronic Journal of Construction (IeJC). You need to click on
Special Issues, then on the special issue, Future of Sustainable Construction,
then on this paper.
b. Scan:
Air Force
Environmentally Responsible Facilties Guide (CCD)
Sustainable
Building Technical Manual (CCD)
Climate
Change: Making Sense and Making Money, RMI, 1997 (CCD)
c. View: Lecture 1:
Introduction (PP)
d. Visit Internet Sites:
(1)
Center for Construction and Environment, U.
of Florida http://www.cce.ufl.edu
(2)
U.S. Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org/
(3)
Green Building Information Council
(Canada) http://greenbuilding.ca
e. Module
Assignments:
(1)
Summarize the basic concepts behind sustainable development and sustainable
construction.
(2)
Briefly describe the Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide and
the Sustainable Building Technical Manual.
(3)
Describe what you found at the assigned internet sites. Please do this for all
future modules too.
(4)
Find the “Checklist for Environmentally Responsible Design & Construction”
in the EBN Archives. Explain how this
Checklist implements sustainability for the built environment.
2.
Environmental/Resources Issues & Industrial/Construction Metabolism
Learning Objectives:
(1) The global environmental issues motivating Sustainable Development
(2) The impacts of human activities on the environment
(3) The range of resource depletion issues forcing reconsideration of economic assumptions and the industrial system of production
(4) The rate of resource consumption by both industry in general and construction industry in particular.
a. Read:
(1)
Chapter 3: Ecological Challenge, Human Values of Nature and Sustainability in
the Built Environment (Stephen R. Kellert) (RBE)
(2)
Introduction (Charles J. Kibert) (CE)
(3)
EBN Articles on Sustainable Forestry (EBN)
b. Scan:
Building
Greener, Building Better, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), 2002
(CCD)
b. View:
(1) Lecture
2: Environmental Issues (PP)
(2) Lecture
2a: Resource Issues (PP)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
The Sierra Club Global Warming
site http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/
The World Resources Institute http://www.wri.org/
d. Module Assignment
(1) Describe the
key environmental and resource issues motivating sustainable development.
(2) Outline the
global strategy that must be implemented to counter global warming.
(3) Using the EBN Archives, describe the concept of
sustainable forestry and impacts on construction industry. Be sure to address
the differences between the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) and American
Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) sustainable forestry
guidelines. Be sure to cite the title,
volume, number, month, and year of the EBN article from which you extracted
your response. Note that the EBN Archives has a search capability and an index
of all articles to make searches relatively easy. Also please note that in this
and future modules, the EBN assignment is 250 words and the remaining
requirements comprise the other 250 words.
This is typical for all modules.
3. Environmental
Ethics and Environmental Justice
Learning Objectives:
(1) The moral and
ethical problems posed by current production and consumption
(2) The inherent rights
of natural systems to exist
(3) The impacts on
society, especially the poor, of the present industrial system
(4) Environmental ethics
as an alternative to present behavior relative to nature
a. Read:
(1)
Cultural
and Legal Strategies for Combating Environmental Injustice, Nicole Kibert,
2002 (CCD)
(2)
Chapter 4: Environmental Ethics (Susan van Gelder) (RBE)
(3)
Chapter 1 Defining and Ecology of Construction (Charles J. Kibert) (CE)
(4)
EBN articles on PVC issues and PVC products (EBN)
b. View: Lecture3:
Ethics (PP)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
WFEO Code of Environmental
Ethics for Engineers
http://www.hk.super.net/~hkie_env/coe.htm
d. Module Assignment
(1) Outline the key ethical issues that
sustainable development addresses and the essential features of environmental
ethics.
(2) Define environmental justice, what it is in
practicality, and its major issues.
(3) Using the EBN archives, describe the environmental
issues with PVC and the advantages and disadvantages of PVC based building
products.
(4)
Remember to visit the internet sites and report what you found.
4.
Ecological/Environmental Economics and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
Learning Objectives:
(1) The assumptions of
present economic thinking that does not take the environment into account
(2) The evolving field
of Ecological Economics
(3) Alternatives to GNP
and GDP as measures of economic performance
(4) Full Cost Accounting
which factors in impacts on natural systems
(5) The application of
Life Cycle Costing to Built Environment decisionmaking
a. Read:
(1)
Chapter 5: Uneconomic Growth and the Built Environment: In Theory and In Fact
(Herman E. Daly) (RBE)
(2)
Ecological
Footprints of Nations (Mathis Wackernagel) (CCD)
(3)
If
the GDP is Up, Why is America Down? (Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and
Jonathan Rowe) (CCD)
(4)
Investing
in Green Building Alternatives: What U.S. Consumers Have to Say (Kevin
Grosskopf)
Note:
this is a paper in the International Electronic Journal of Construction (IeJC).
You need to click on Special Issues, the on the special issue, Future of
Sustainable Construction, then on this paper.
(5)
EBN articles on straw bale construction (EBN)
b. Scan:
(1)
RMI’s
Economic Renewal Program: An Introduction (CCD)
(2)
Sustainable
Development: Prosperity without Growth (CCD)
b. View:
Lecture
4: Economics (PP)
c. Module Assignment
(1) Explain the role of ecological economics with
respect to sustainable construction.
(2) Using the EBN archives, provide an overview of
straw bale construction and how it fits into the concept of sustainable
construction.
5. Ecolabeling,
Building Assessment, and Technology
Learning Objectives:
(1) The effects of
technology on achieving sustainability
(2) The debate between
“substitutability” and “non-substitutablity”
(3) Ecolabeling of
products as a solution to assuring attention to environmental impacts in
production
(4) Building Assessment
as a method of labeling buildings for their environmental impacts.
(5) The U.S. Green
Building Council’s LEED Standard
a. Read:
(1) Chapter 15: Environmentally Superior
Buildings from Birth to Death (Thomas E. Graedel) (RBE)
(2)
Chapter 16: Environmental Performance of Buildings: Setting Goals, Offering
Guidance, and Measuring Progress (Raymond Cole) (RBE)
(3)
Building
Environmental Assessment Methods: A Measure of Success (Raymond Cole)
Note: this is a paper in the
International Electronic Journal of Construction (IeJC). You need to click on
Special Issues, then on the special issue, Future of Sustainable Construction,
then on this paper.
(4)
EBN articles on alternative flooring
materials (EBN)
b.
Scan: LEED Standard v
2.1
c. View:
(1) Lecture
5: Technology Trajectories (PP)
(2) Lecture
5a: Environmental Labeling (PP)
(3) Lecture
5b: LEED Standard (PP)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
German
Blue Angel Ecolabel website
LEED
Rating System (U.S. Green Building Council)
http://www.usgbc.org/programs/index.htm
d. Module Assignment
(1) Explain the concepts of ecolableling and
building assessment and how they are related.
(2) Describe the purpose of the LEED Standard and
its general content.
(3) Explain the relationship of technology to
sustainability.
(4) Using the EBN archives, describe the general
types of flooring materials made of renewable resources (bamboo, linoleum,
wood).
6.
Sustainability Frameworks
Learning Objectives:
(1) Proposed approaches or frameworks for achieving sustainability
(2) Concepts of
measuring progress based on environmental issues (EcoMetrics) and the efficient
use of natural systems functions (EcoEfficiency)
a. Read:
(1)
Part I: The Ecologists (
(2)
EBN articles on carpet and carpet tiles (EBN)
b. View:
Lecture
6a: Green Building Initiatives (PP)
c.
Module Assignment (500 words total)
(1)
Describe the frameworks for sustainability mentioned in the lecture materials.
(2)
Discuss how green building initiatives can or do use these frameworks
(3)
Using the EBN Archives, describe the state of carpet and carpet tiles with
respect to recyclability and indoor air quality.
7. Sustainable Communities and
Sustainability Indicators
Learning Objectives:
(1)
The role of sustainable communities in achieving sustainable development
(2)
Case studies of specific sustainable communities
(3) Local Agenda 21 and the Healthy Communities
Initiative
(4) Measuring progress through sustainability
indicators
(5)
Types of indicators and their creation
a. Read:
(1)
Developing
Indicators of Sustainability: U.S. Experience (
(2)
Local
Government Dialogue Paper 2001 (ICLEI)
(3)
EBN articles on Smart Growth (EBN)
b. Scan:
The
City of Santa Monica Sustainable City Report 1999
c. Visit Internet Sites:
Sustainable Communities Network
http://www.sustainable.org
Center of Excellence for Sustainable
Development http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
The International Council for Local Environmental
Issues http://www.iclei.org/
City of Santa Monica
Sustainability Site http://www.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/environment/policy
d. Module Assignment
(1)
Explain the concept of a sustainable community and the role of Local Agenda 21
in helping create a sustainable community.
(2)
Explain what an ‘indicator’ is and its role in sustainable community
development.
(3)
Summarize
(4)
Using the EBN Archives, describe recent thinking on Smart Growth. Feel free to
use the internet and other sources for this assignment.
8. Energy
Systems, Exergy, Entropy, Energy Conservation, and Renewable Energy
Learning Objectives:
(1) Problems associated
with energy use worldwide and in the
(2) Quantities of energy
being used and forecasts for the future
(3) Role of energy conservation in reducing
energy demand
(4) Potential for renewable energy systems to
meet energy needs
(5) Concepts of Exergy
and Entropy
(6) Design concepts for
energy efficient buildings
a. Read:
(1) Introduction to
Renewable Energy Technologies (Stephen J. Strong) (RBE)
(2) EBN articles on
treated lumber (EBN)
b. Scan:
Sections
2, 2.1, 3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.10 of Greening Federal
Facilities (GFF)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
Lighting Excellence:
Lawrence Berkley National
Lab http://eande.lbl.gov/CBS/LightingExcellence.html
International Project for Sustainable Energy
Paths http://www.ipsep.org/
CREST Guide to
Sustainable Energy Resources
http://solstice.crest.org/online/aeguide/index.html
International Solar Energy Society
http://www.ises.org/
Solar Energy International
http://www.solarenergy.org/
The Sustainable Buildings
Industry Council http://www.sbicouncil.org/home/index.html
d. View:
e. Module Assignment
(1) Using the
course materials, the internet, and other information, describe the basic
energy strategy that should be used to produce sustainable school buildings. Be
sure to include health as an important issue.
(2) Using the EBN Archives, describe the issues with
treated lumber and the alternatives that could be used in place of this
building material.
9. Life Cycle
Assessment (LCA), Embodied Energy, Emergy, and Materials Issues
Learning Objectives:
(1) Concept of Life
Cycle Assessment
(2) Embodied Energy and Emergy
(3)
(4) Assessing building materials for their
environmental impacts
a. Read:
(1)
Environmental
Issues of Composite Building Materials (Charles J. Kibert and
(2)
Progress
in Developing Green Building Materials (Charles J. Kibert and Gisela Bosch)
(CCD)
(3)
Materialization
and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends (Iddo Wernick et al.) (CCD)
(4)
Sustainable
Building Materials (CCD)
(5)
Chapter 7 Environmentally Responsible Building Materials Selection (Nadav
Malin) (RBE)
(6)
EBN articles on insulation (EBN)
b. Scan:
Sections
5, 5.1, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 of Greening Federal Facilities (GFF)
c. View:
(1)
Lecture
9: Materials (PP)
(2)
Lecture
9a: Life Cycle Assessment & Life Cycle Costing (PP)
d. Module Assignment
(1) Describe how
materials can be considered sustainable or non-sustainable and give examples in
construction.
(2) Using the EBN Archives, explain the state of the
art of insulation or insulating materials with respect to green building.
10. Water Resources, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Learning Objectives:
(1) Water resource
issues worldwide and in the
(2) Strategies for water conservation, reuse, and
recycling
(3) Alternative wastewater handling strategies
(4) Alternative stormwater handling strategies
a. Read:
(1)
Sustainable
Water Use (Kevin Grosskopf) (CCD)
(2)
Differentiating
management resource of water and waste in urban areas (Ralf Otterpohl,
Andrea Albold, Martin Oldenburg) (CCD)
(3)
Chapter 8 Ecological Design, Living Machines and the Purification of Waters
(John Todd) (RBE)
(4)
EBN articles on low flow fixtures, composting toilets, and stormwater (EBN)
b. Scan:
Sections
4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 of Greening Federal Facilities
(GFF)
The
Texas Rainwater Harvesting Handbook
c. Module Assignment
(1) Provide an overview of water issues connected to
sustainable buildings
(2) Using the EBN Archives, describe the state of
the art of low flow fixtures, composting toilets, and stormwater
11. Urban Planning, Land Development, New
Urbanism, Conservation Design, and Landscaping
a. Read:
(1)
Abacoa: A Model for Sustainable Land Development (Charles J. Kibert and Brad
Guy) (CCD)
(2)
Sections
6.2 and 6.3 of Greening Federal Facilities (GFF)
(3)
Chapter 9 Landscape: Source of Life or Liablity (John Tillman Lyle) (RBE)
(4)
Chapter 14 Creating Greener Communities through Conservation Subdivision Design
(Randall Arendt) (RBE)
(5)
Chapter 17 The
(6)
Chapter 13 Bioregionalism and
Biourbanism Approach (Daniel Williams) (RBE)
(7)
EBN articles on large scale integration of nature and cities (EBN)
b. Scan:
(1)
Turning
Brownfields into Vital Community Assets (C. Kibert, T. Vetica, and
(2)
USEPA Natural
Landscaping Manual (CCD)
c. Module Assignment
(1)
Explain the word ‘brownfield’ and how the city of
(2)
Describe the concept of Conservation Subdivision Design.
(3) Describe the notion of ‘bioregionalism’ as
described by Dan Williams in RBE.
(4) Explain the thrust of the
USEPA Natural Landscaping Manual.
(5) Using the EBN Archives
and the internet, describe some of the latest thinking on large scale
integration of cities and the landscape.
12. Design for the Environment, Ecological
Principles, Passive Design, and Climatic Design
Learning Objectives:
(1) Design and architecture issues relative to
sustainability
(2) Natural systems as the model for sustainable
design
(3) Passive versus active systems
(4) Emerging concepts:
Ecological Design, Climatic Design, Design for the Environment (DFE)
a. Read:
(1)
A
Roadmap to Sustainable Building Design (Charles J. Kibert and Pekka
Huovila) (CCD)
(2)
Chapter 11: Building Values (Gail Lindsey) (RBE)
(3)
Chapter 12: Architecture as Pedagogy (David Orr) (RBE)
(4)
Part 3: The Architects (
(5)
EBN articles on technologies that support sustainable design (EBN)
b. View Internet Sites:
Sustainable Architecture, Building
and Culture http://www.west.net/~prince/index.htm
Solar Design
Associates http://www.ultranet.com/~sda/SustainableArchitecture.html
c. Module Assignment
(1)
Describe how design, in the sense of architecture and engineering as applied to
the built environment, is changing in the era of sustainable construction and
green building.
(2)
Using the EBN Archives, describe some technologies that are emerging to support
ecological design.
13. Construction Operations, Advanced
Construction Waste Management, and Deconstruction
Learning Objectives:
(1) The impacts of
construction operations on the environment
(2) The extent of construction and demolition
(C&D) waste
(3) Reduction, reuse, and recycling of C&D
waste
(4) Deconstruction of buildings: technical,
environmental, and economic potential
a. Read:
(1)
Chapter 10 Construction and Demolition Waste: Innovative Assessment and
Management (Peter Yost) (RBE)
(2)
Section
5.3 of Greening Federal Facilities (GFF)
(3)
Financial
Consequences of Construction Waste (Bosslink) (CCD)
(4)
Deconstruction:
Giving Old Buildings New Life, (Sherman) (CCD)
(5)
EBN articles on construction and demolition waste (EBN)
b. View: Lecture
13: Construction & Demolition Waste (PP)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
Construction Waste
Management http://www.oikos.com/library/waste/
On-Site
Minimizing Construction Waste RMIT –
Construction
Waste Sourcebook
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/ConstructionWaste.html
d. Module Assignment
(1)
Describe the construction and demolition waste problem in the
(2)
Explain the concept of a construction waste management plan and how you would
implement one in a construction company.
(3)
Using the EBN Archives, describe how construction waste can be reduced.
14. Building Health, Building Commissioning and
Facility Management
Learning Objectives:
(1)
Building Health Issues and Causes
(2)
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Issues
(3)
Role of Building Commissioning in Sustainable Construction
(4)
Facilities Management Opportunities and Building Maintenance Issues
a. Read:
(1)
Sections
1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 of Greening Federal Facilities
(GFF)
(2)
Chapters
13, 15, 21, and 22 of the Sustainable Building Technical Manual (CCD)
(3)
Sick
Building Syndome- IAQ Insider (Robert L. Scarry) (CCD)
(4)
EBN articles on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) (EBN)
b. Visit Internet Sites:
The Green Building Guide http://www.greenguide.com/
Sustainable
Building Sources (Austin, TX) http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html
c. Module Assignment
(1)
Describe the problems of indoor environmental quality in buildings and how
green buildings are attempting to create high quality, healthy indoor
environments.
(2)
Explain the concept of ‘building commissioning’ and how it is applied in green
building. Be sure to review the LEED
Standard v 2.0 to determine how building commissioning is applied in current
U.S. Green Buildings.
(3)
Using the EBN Archives, describe how a range of new products are being created
to help in the process of creating healthy indoor environments.
15. Industrial Ecology and Construction Ecology
Learning Objectives:
(1) Definitions and objectives of Industrial
Ecology and Construction Ecology
(2) Pollution Prevention and Clean Technology
(3) Natural systems as models for industrial systems
(4) Case Studies of Industrial Ecology
a. Read:
(1) Chapter 18: Sustainable New
Towns and Industrial Ecology (Ernie Lowe) (RBE)
(2)
Products
of a Sustainable Future (Matthew Simon and Andrew Sweatman) (CCD)
(3)
Supporting
Pillars For Industrial Ecology (Ray Cote) (CCD)
(4)
EBN articles on paint and other liquid finishes (EBN)
b. View:
Lecture
15: Industrial and Construction Metabolism (PP)
c. Visit Internet Sites:
Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller
University http://phe.rockefeller.edu
Indigo
Development (Ernest Lowe)http://www.indigodev.com/
d. Module Assignment
(1) Explain the concept of industrial ecology and how it is connected to sustainable construction.
(2)
Describe how Ernie Lowe (Chapter 18 of RBE) applied industrial ecology to new
towns in
(3)
Using the EBN Archives, describe the types of paint and other liquid finishes
that have been developed to respond to the demands of the green building
movement.
INDEX OF REFERENCES
The following is a partial
list of some of the documents you will find on the Course CD. These are for your use in your Course Paper,
for use in your work, and also provide a historical background on the green
building movement of the past decade.
Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide, 1998
Deconstruction: Giving Old
Buildings New Life, Rhonda Sherman, in Water Quality & Waste Management,
Ecotools Manual - A Comprehensive Review of Design for Environment tools, Nils de Caluwe, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1997
International Examples of
Sustainable Product Development, Hans Hegman, UNEP-WG-SPD, 1997
Proposal for an Educational
Model for Sustainable Product Development, Robin Roy, UNEP-WG-SPD, 1997
Recycling and Reuse of
Building Materials, Kurt Rathman, University of Idaho, National Pollution
Prevention Center for Higher Education, 1997.
Report of the President’s
Council on Sustainable Development, 1996
Sustainable Building
Materials (Draft), Jong-Jin Kim,
Sustainable Building
Technical Manual, Public Technology, Inc., 1996
Sustainable Use of Renewable
Resources for Materials Purposes, Onno-Sven Tromp, UNEP-WG-SPD, 1997