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Sustainable Engineering Design
Published in J.K. Yates, Daniel Castro-Lacouture, Sustainability in Engineering Design and Construction, 2018
J.K. Yates, Daniel Castro-Lacouture
In addition to selecting sustainable sites, designers should also design sustainable landscapes. Sustainable landscapes are landscapes having the following five characteristics (Kibert 2008, p. 142): Incorporate technologies supporting sustainable landscaping goals, and treat technology as secondary and subservient, not primary and dominant.Maintain local structure and function, and do not reduce the diversity or stability of surrounding ecosystems.Maximize the recycling of resources, nutrients, and by-products, and produce minimum waste or conversion of materials to useable locations or forms.Preserve and serve local human communities rather than changing or destroying them.Use primarily renewable, horizontal energy at rates that could be regenerated without ecological disturbances.
Residential Water Use
Published in Abbas Yari, Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh Eslamian, Urban and Industrial Water Conservation Methods, 2020
Residents of San Diego County could get up to $2.75 per square foot ($29.6 per m2) of grass that they replace with sustainable landscaping. It is advised to replace grass with plants that are recognized as moderate, low, or very low water-use type plants. The WUCOLs (Water Use Classifications of Landscape Species) reference guide is a useful resource for identifying plant watering requirements. Recently, the program has some additional requirements: rainwater harvesting and irrigation modifications are required, and synthetic turf is not allowed. Other requirements include mulch coverage around plants and a set number of plants per square foot (City of San Diego Public Utilities 2017).
Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design
Published in Pablo La Roche, Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design, 2017
Emissions from construction can be produced during the fabrication of the materials used in the building, during the transportation of materials to the building, and during construction of the building. Shelter: One of the basic goals of a building is to provide an appropriate shelter for the occupants and their activities.Indoor air quality: Another fundamental goal is to provide healthy indoor environments.Sustainable landscaping: A well-designed sustainable landscaping can absorb carbon emissions or reduce GHG emissions from the building. Landscaping can generate carbon emissions by the disturbance of the soil but can also act as a carbon sink (e.g., planting of rapid growth plants).Efficient material design: It is used to design the building efficiently to reduce waste and optimize the use of materials (e.g., using modular design).Material selection: Selection of low-energy, low-carbon materials is preferable because it is easier to offset when their emissions are low.Building construction: Building construction can be optimized to reduce emissions from the flow of materials and people and to minimize waste and use of materials. Reuse of a building or part of a building will significantly reduce emissions from construction.
Bringing design back: resetting liveability of a ‘near but not in the city’ housing environment in Sydney
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2019
Mamun Rashid, Dilshad Rahat Ara
A further limitation of this study is that the representative sample (upon which the analysis is based) does not include people who exclusively reside in very tall buildings. Moreover, residents’ experience of satisfaction with their housing specifically because of height has not been tested. Victoria Park is a unique case scenario designed with sustainable landscaping and territorial perimeter enclosure in mind. These results thus should not be generalized to other stand-alone high or low rise buildings which are not part of a comprehensively designed complex. Future research about the lived experience in different heights and type of complex is needed to better understand and enhance the high-rise high-density residential experience. However, the results can be generalized to comparable designed housing settings with closeness to greenery and built within the inner-city area edges (Figures 2, 4, 5, and 6).
Estimating irrigation water demand for green spaces in humid areas: seeking a sustainable water management strategy
Published in Urban Water Journal, 2018
Yan Shi, Guofu Yang, Yuanyuan Du, Yuan Ren, Yijun Lu, Likun Fan, Jie Chang, Ying Ge, Zhiyi Bao
Can better data help to underpin a landscaping water management policy in humid areas? To our knowledge, this is the first study that addresses the IWDG in humid areas in a broader region and from the perspective of dynamic analysis. This study used the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) of China as a case study in which we (1) estimated the current IWDG of this area, (2) assessed the IWDG development using scenario analysis and (3) discussed the challenges and water management implications for urban green spaces. A better understanding of irrigation water demand is critical for the smart design and management of sustainable landscaping. Since green spaces reflect a society’s values and ideals (Willis and Petrokofsky 2017), the conclusion leads the way towards a sustainable future.