Resource salvation : the architecture of reuse / Mark Gorgolewski, Ryerson University, Toronto.

Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and recycling an issue of paramount importance. A fundamental goal of the sustainable design movement is to derive utmost use from construction materials and c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gorgolewski, Mark (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Definitions""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Background""; ""1.2 Scarcity of resource""; ""1.3 Waste and obsolescence""; ""1.4 Permanence and repair""; ""1.5 Material efficiency""; ""1.6 Embodied energy and carbon""; ""1.7 The circular economy""; ""1.8 Reuse v recycling""; ""1.9 Summary""; ""References""; ""Image Credits""; ""Chapter 2 Concepts Supporting Reuse""; ""2.1 History of building component reuse""; ""2.2 Barriers to reuse""; ""2.3 Urban metabolism and resource flows""
  • ""Chapter 4 Materials Investigations""""4.1 Nordic Built Component Reuse""; ""4.2 Storywood""; ""4.3 Reuse of structural steel""; ""4.4 Rebrick project""; ""References""; ""Image Credits""; ""Chapter 5 Practitioners""; ""5.1 Rotor""; ""5.2 Milestone Project Management""; ""5.3 Lendager Group""; ""5.4 Superuse Studios""; ""Image Credits""; ""Chapter 6 Implications for Design""; ""6.1 Design process characteristics""; ""6.2 Performance issues""; ""6.3 Understanding sources and opportunities""; ""6.4 Decision process""; ""6.5 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Image Credits""; ""Bibliography""