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Sustainable Concrete Architecture
David Bennett
ISBN -13:9781859463529
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
 This book offers a rational method to account for the carbon impact of concrete in contemporary architecture using concrete to create visually exciting, energy efficient buildings fit for adaptation to climate change.
The wide range of case studies is supported by in depth technical analysis and explanation of the benefits of using this versatile but complex building material to deliver sustainable projects.
Many of the raw materials may be familiar to the reader, but derivation of their embodied C02 may not be. For example there are low carbon cements available, masonry blocks that are carbon neutral, aggregates that are low carbon and formwork that can be reused in the permanent architecture to sequester C02. These materials, their details and their descriptions, and many more, are comprehensively covered in the book.
A technical front section looks at recent innovations in concrete technology with a comprehensive, balanced account of the material's embodied energy and impact-in-use. Often maligned as environmentally unfriendly, the technical evidence about concrete reveals its legitimate place in the current lexicon of low carbon building design.
The second half of the book sets out a series of cutting-edge case studies of different building types constructed in concrete. The inspirational images and focused commentary conclude this refreshingly challenging reappraisal of concrete in the debate about sustainabilit.
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