Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments

✍ Scribed by Jacques Kimman, Christoph Ravesloot, Ronald Rovers

• Publisher: Techne Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference. The book addresses questions on how to design new buildings and districts with optimized energy and water systems with materials that neither deplete resources, nor add to climate change by CO2 emissions. 0-impact goes one step further than 0-energy. It addresses building and design issues from an environmentally neutral perspective. It not only includes energy-neutral building, but adds the challenge of water use, production and use of materials, and land use.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Part I: Introduction......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Concept of O Towards 0-impact Building and Built Environments / Ronald Rovers......Page 12
The 0-Impact Transition Approach / Jacques Kimman......Page 28
Bringing Science to Practice The Concept of Cafeterias - Implementing zero-concept options and using a roadmap / Christoph Maria Ravesloot......Page 32
Part II: Keynotes......Page 38
Realism and Illusion Realists and Idealists on the Energy Question -- The Order of the Century / Hermann Scheer......Page 40
GÜSSING, a Model for Other RegionsSelf-sufficient energy supply based on regionally availablerenewable resources and sustainable regional development / Peter Vadasz......Page 44
The Goal is PlusEnergy! / Rolf Disch......Page 52
Architecture of Conglomerates / Lucien Kroll......Page 58
A Life Cycle Tower for a Better Future Contributions of the Building Industry to a Sustainable Tomorrow / Hubert Rhomberg......Page 66
Rapid GHG reductions in the built environment under extreme conditions / Nils Larsson......Page 74
The Energy Transition Model Bringing rationale to the emotional discussion on our energy future / John Kerkhoven......Page 86
Part III: Papers......Page 94
From Space Habitats to Zero Emission Buildings Space Borne ZEB Enabling Technologies / Julien S. Bourrelle, Arild Gustavsen, Bjørn Petter Jelle......Page 96
Towards a Definition of Zero Impact Buildings / Shady Attia and André De Herde......Page 106
Field Study of Retrofit Solutions for Residential Housing / Davide Calì, Tanja Osterhage and Dirk Mueller......Page 114
Applications of Appropriate Renewable Energy Technologies in Chinese Rural Houses in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau / Wang Yan, Zhang Peng, Ju Xiaolei, Zhang Yabin......Page 126
Planning 0-Energy Cities Using Local Energy Sources / Wouter Leduc......Page 138
Towards 0-Impact Industrial Sites a 0-impact tool / Katleen De Flander......Page 156
Urban Morphology and the Quest for Zero Carbon Cities / Serge Salat and Caroline Nowacki......Page 166
The Urban Harvest Plus approach to 0-impact on built environments, case study Kerkrade West / Ronald Rovers, Herwin Sap, Wouter Leduc, Vera Rovers, Leo Gommans, Ferry van Kann......Page 174
Prefabricated timber as a means of achieving zero carbon / Gavin White......Page 184
Photo Catalytic Degradation as a Tool for the Reduction of Ambient Air Pollution / Cyriel Mentink, Toon Peters, Paul Donners, Jan Theelen, Wouter Snippe, Martijn Janssen, Jacob Pijnenburg, Paul Borm......Page 192
Zero-Impact Water Use in the Built Environment / M.M. Nederlof and J. Frijns......Page 200
Tilburg: A Road Map for Becoming a Zero-Carbon City in 2045 / Erik Alsema, Jappe Goud, Geurt Donze, Martin Roders......Page 210
References......Page 217
Afterword......Page 218