Tabla de Contenidos: “…SUSTAINABILITY REGULATIONS AND LAWS CONTRIBUTING TO CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION; 6.5. TAXONOMY OF A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING; 6.6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Life Cycle Impacts -- Green Building Certifications -- Policy and Regulation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The Importance of Planning to Avoid Things Going Wrong -- Introduction -- Acquisitions and Investments -- Operating Models and Commercial Contracts -- Funding Investment -- Construction -- Choice of Contract -- Technical and Pricing Schedules -- Risk Allocation -- Usual Suspects -- Infrastructure Provision and Project Rights -- Construction -- Moving to Low Carbon Solutions -- What Are Data Centre Operators Doing to Transition to Low Carbon? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2 Overview of the Dutch housing market and land use planning -- 6.3 Eco-costs/value ratio and the EVR model -- 6.4 Applying the EVR model to housing -- 6.5 EVR and tall buildings -- 6.6 Embedding EVR in other sustainable ranking methods -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Productivity in Construction Projects -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Concept and measurement of productivity -- 7.3 Previous literature on factors affecting site productivity -- 7.4 Productivity survey -- 7.5 Proposed framework for site productivity -- 7.6 Conclusion and further research -- References -- Chapter 8 Design Variables and Whole-Life Cost Modelling -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Whole-life cost modelling -- 8.3 Steps in LCC modelling -- 8.4 Design principles to optimise lcc -- 8.5 A worked example of an office façade -- 8.6 Inclusion of carbon emissions into wlc modelling -- 8.7 Limitations of wlc -- 8.8 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 9 Procurement and Contract Strategy: Risks Allocation and Construction Cost -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Procurement strategy and contract selection -- 9.3 Wembley stadium case study -- 9.4 Allocation of risks and forms of contract -- 9.5 Risks and construction costs -- 9.6 Procurement systems and contract issues -- 9.7 Alternative forms of procurement -- 9.8 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 10 Sustainable Design, Investment and Value -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Formulation of project goals -- 10.3 Identifying value-related characteristics -- 10.4 The performance approach -- 10.5 Use of sustainability assessment systems -- 10.6 Relationship between sustainable credentials and value -- 10.7 Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 11 Carbon Reduction and Fiscal Incentives for Sustainable Design -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Key drivers of owners and occupiers -- 11.3 Reducing demand for energy in buildings…”

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