Green Building with Concrete：Sustainable Design and Construction

"Packed with case studies highlighting construction companies that regularly recycle between 70% and 95% of concrete from their waste streams, this book presents practical, up-to-date information about concrete's history in the green building movement, state of the art methodologies, and current best practices. Using the USGBC LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building assessment standard, the book covers site, energy, water, materials, indoor environmental quality, construction,and demolition waste protocols and provides information on tracking the LEED requirements to assure timely building certification. It also addresses non-LEED issues, such as flood and fire protection benefits"--

Gajanan M. Sabnis, PhD, PE, is Emeritus Professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and an international consultant in project management and related fields. With his diverse cultural background and experience in the United States and India, he spends more time in India to assist the infrastructure projects there. Large infrastructure development is taking place in India and the Middle East, and he finds it rewarding to provide such advisory services. He is a strong proponent of sustainability in civil engineering—particularly in the cement and concrete industry. He has participated in the initial development of the policy on sustainability in ASCE and has built his own home in Silver Spring, Maryland, as an experiment in the principles of sustainable construction.