The new carbon architecture : building to cool the climate

King, Bruce (Structural engineer) (author.).

Summary: "The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm-shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation from mycelium."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780865718685
ISBN: 0865718687
Physical Description: print
xvi, 159 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Beyond zero : the time value of carbon / by Erin McDade -- Counting carbon : what we know and how we know it / by Catherine De Wolf, Barbara Rodriguez Droguett, and Katharina Simonen -- Rebuild : what you build mattters, what you don't build matters more / by Larry Strain -- Wood : like never before -- Straw and other fibers : a second harvest / with Chris Magwood and Massey Burke -- Concrete : the reinvention of artificial rock / with Fernando Martirena and Pauil Jaquin -- Plastic : so great, so awful... some new directions / by Mikhail Davis, Wes Sullens, and Wil Srubar -- To your health : the health benefits and impacts of natural building materials / by Pete Walker, Andrew Thomson, and Daniel Maskell -- Size matters : can buidlings be too tall? / by Ann Edminster -- Technology and localization : trends at play -- Action plan : places to intervene in a system.