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Building Better – Less – Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy

Building Better – Less – Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy (Birkhäuser, 2022) is a new handbook in sustainability and circularity in architecture and construction.

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Building Better – Less – Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy (Birkhäuser, 2022) by is a new handbook in sustainability and circularity. The book has benn compiled by Felix Heisel and Dirk E. Hebel together with Ken Webster.

The text is in English. The book is richly illustrated with informative photographs, tables and diagrams.

Sustainability is to become the guiding principle of social action and economic activity. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economic, ecological and also ethical strategies, which have multiple complex interactions and all too often also conflicting goals and priorities. In no other field can these be better observed, addressed and influenced than in architecture and building.

Each volume of “Building Better – Less – Different” details two fundamental areas of sustainability and explores their specific dynamics and interactions. After introductory overviews, innovative methods and current developments are described and analysed in in-depth essays, international case studies and pointed commentaries. The sustainability criteria of efficiency (“better”), sufficiency (“less”) and consistency (“different”) form the framework for each book.

The first volume presents concepts, methods and examples of circularity in construction and the economy. Urban mining and circular construction are two approaches to the challenges that architecture and urban design are facing, using techniques such as mono-material construction and design for disassembly, and tools such as materials passports and databases. The circular economy is not solely about recycling but encompasses a wide range of strategies from local community projects to new ownership and service models and steering mechanisms such as carbon fees and dividends.

  • Building sustainably: a compendium in individual volumes
  • First volume on circularity in architecture and economy
  • Systematic, up-to-date, international

 

Weight 666 g
Dimensions 28,0 × 22,0 × 1,3 cm
Author(s)

Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel, Ken Webster

Publisher

Birkhäuser

Publishing year

2022

Language

Images

tables, colour photos, diagrams

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Number of pages

159

ISBN

978-3-0356-2109-9