DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/10722/578312024-03-29T11:08:01Z2024-03-29T11:08:01ZRemaking Sustainable Urbanism: Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban EraZhang, Xiaolinghttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/3334662023-10-06T05:19:35Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Remaking Sustainable Urbanism: Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban Era
Authors: Zhang, Xiaoling
Abstract: This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on three interrelated prevailing processes of local green space reproduction, cross-scale mediation of eco-city planning ideology and mobilized social-economic-political intricacies among different countries. This book addresses the ongoing global diffusion and diversification of sustainable urbanism discourses, debates and practices to portray, evaluate, remake and implement a sustainable form of urban development, using China as a national example. As eco-city practice becomes a city-branding instrument worldwide, this new urban development vision is also well embraced by Chinese local governments. In these contexts, the Chinese government has initiated and endorsed a number of massive projects to promote green urbanism, steering urbanization onto a more sustainable trajectory. The construction of these “ecotopias” involves a multitude of processes ranging from policy transfer/mobility to institutional design, from innovation in green technologies to the promotion of green buildings, and from policy implementation to public participation.2019-01-01T00:00:00ZResearch Companion to Construction EconomicsLu, WWYe, MENGhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/3236302023-01-08T07:09:57Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Research Companion to Construction Economics
Authors: Lu, WW; Ye, MENG2022-01-01T00:00:00ZResearch Handbook on Complex Project OrganizingLu, WWXu, Jhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/3236172023-01-08T07:09:38Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing
Authors: Lu, WW; Xu, J2022-01-01T00:00:00ZDesign and Technological Applications in Sustainable ArchitectureLAOVISUTTHICHAI, VLu, WWhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/3235742023-01-08T07:08:34Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Design and Technological Applications in Sustainable Architecture
Authors: LAOVISUTTHICHAI, V; Lu, WW
Abstract: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are strenuously pursued around the globe. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has also attempted to develop its strategy for soft-landing these goals. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) presents enormous potentials for achieving sustainability in the AEC industry. However, DfMA for sustainability has not been well discussed in either literature or practice. This chapter aims to develop an integrated DfMA process to achieve the SDGs in the AEC industry. By reviewing literature, visiting two case studies, and referring to the RIBA’s (Royal Institute of British Architects) Plan of Work 2020, this research ratifies the implementation of 11 DfMA suggestions during four design stages to achieve the four SDGs, including good health and well-being, sustainable life cycle cost, net-zero embodied carbon, and sustainable land use and ecology. DfMA can be employed by both cases for sustainable building construction and renovation, but their implementation processes are dissimilar depending on the reinterpretation and adaptation for a specific project context. Future research is recommended to investigate other sustainable design methods and assistive tools to manage the complication of DfMA practice.2021-01-01T00:00:00Z