Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes

Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes Edited by Bernhard Hauke, Markus Kuhnhenne, Mark Lawson and Milan Veljkovic

Sustainability is a high priority for all professionals involved in the design, construction and operation of buildings, yet detailed information on the sustainability credentials of steel as a construction material is scattered over a wide range of publications, reports and company data. Sustainable Steel Buildings: A Practical Guide for Structures and Envelopes provides a thorough review of steel as a sustainable building material, bringing together detailed information on its sustainability credentials, focusing on the advantages and drawbacks of steel in construction applications, and illustrating how its characteristics are assessed under a range of international certification systems.

It covers: The background of sustainable building Basic concepts of sustainable construction Methods and design tools for the delivery of sustainable buildings Steel and its performance in certification systems Information and data on relevant steel construction products Examples of sustainable steel buildings

Sustainable Steel Buildings shows specifiers, contractors, building authorities, lecturers and students how steel can be used to deliver buildings and structures with a high level of inherent sustainability.

The Editors

Bernhard Hauke is CEO of bauforumstahl, the association of the German Steel Construction Industry

Markus Kuhnhenne is Professor of Sustainability of Metal Constructions at RWTH Aachen University

Mark Lawson is Professor of Construction Systems at the University of Surrey

Milan Veljkovic is Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at the Technical University of Delft