This book constitutes state-of-the-art research covering a wide range of topics including climate change and carbon emissions, air quality and pollution control, urbanism, land and circular economy, sustainable transport, energy, water, biodiversity and greenery, environmental services, housing, and construction with respect to the built environment. The concepts of sustainability in built environment conclude with reimagining the city. The content includes pedagogical features such as examples, simple flowing language and over 100 figures. The book aims to motivate architects, engineers, consultants, builders, and planners to respond to the challenges of sustainability in the built environment.
Author(s): Ashok Kumar Jain
Series: Green Energy and Technology
Publisher: Springer-CCRI
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 277
City: New Delhi
Foreword
The Responsible City
Preface
About This Book
Message by Dr. Malti Goel
Contents
About the Author
1 An Agenda for Resilient, Green and Sustainable Built Environment
1.1 Circular Metabolism
1.2 Climate and Disaster Resilience
1.3 Clean Air
1.4 Clean Water
1.5 Clean Transport and Connectivity
1.6 Clean Energy
1.7 Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
2 Climate Change, Carbon Emissions and Built Environment
2.1 Sustainable Urbanism
2.2 Health and Environmental Management
3 Air Quality and Pollution Control
3.1 Sources of Air Pollution
3.2 National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)
3.3 Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)
3.4 Clean Air and Sustainable Development Goals
3.5 Strategic Planning for Clean Air
3.6 Air Monitoring Data and Inventory
3.7 Density/FAR Optimisation and Mixed-Use
3.8 Accessibility for All
3.9 Traffic Calming
3.10 Zero-Polluting Industries and Renewable Power
3.11 Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
3.12 Dust Control
3.13 Green Buildings
3.14 Landscape as Sink of Air Pollution
4 Urbanism and Circular Systems
4.1 National Urban Policy Framework (NUPF)
4.2 The Built Environment
4.3 Circular Systems
4.4 Reducing the Urban Footprint
4.5 Restoration, Redevelopment and Regeneration
4.6 Recycling, Readjustment, Rezoning and Repurposing
4.7 Remote Sensing and Digital Planning
4.8 Rehabilitation of Slums and Regularisation of Unauthorised Colonies
4.9 Land Pooling and Management
4.10 LADM Framework
4.11 Participatory Planning
5 Sustainable Transport
5.1 7 Cs of Sustainable Mobility
5.2 Transport Planning
5.3 Public-Transit Options
5.4 Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
5.5 Restructuring Urban Form
5.6 Classification of Urban Roads
5.7 Urban Street Design Guidelines
5.8 Footpath and Pedestrian Level of Service
5.9 Cycle Tracks
5.10 Traffic Calming and Noise Control
5.11 Barrier-Free and Safe Access
5.12 Cargo Transportation and Logistics
5.13 Intelligent Transport System (ITS)
6 Sustainable Energy: One Sun-One World-One Grid
6.1 Alternative Technologies for Sustainable Energy
6.2 National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
6.3 Electric Vehicles
6.4 Energy Storage
6.5 Solar Cities
6.6 Renewable Energy
6.7 Energy Efficiency
6.8 Energy-Efficient Urban Structure
6.9 Sustainable Energy and Buildings
6.10 Passive Building Design
6.11 Building Envelope and Surface to Volume Ratio
6.12 Intelligent Building
6.13 Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning
6.14 Earth-Air Tunnel
6.15 Evaporative Cooling
6.16 Passive Downdraught Cooling
6.17 Solar Water Heating and Cooking
6.18 Parabolic Trough
6.19 Smart Micro-grid and Ecodistricts
7 Water Conservation, Efficiency and Recycling
7.1 Water Conservation, Efficiency and Recycling
7.2 Water Quality
7.3 Water Supply Standards
7.4 Watershed Development
7.5 Strategy for Storm Water Management
7.6 Rain Garden and Bioswales
7.7 Rainwater Harvesting
7.8 Recycling of Wastewater
7.9 Root Zone Treatment System (RZTS)
7.10 Effective Micro-organism (EM)
7.11 Waste Stabilisation Ponds (WSP)
7.12 Sustainable Water Management
7.13 Leveraging the Community
8 Biodiversity, Greens and Cultural Spaces
8.1 Landscape and Environment
8.2 Hierarchy of Open Spaces
8.3 Landscape Design
8.4 Cooling and Shading by Vegetation
8.5 Controlling Pollution and Heat Island Effect
8.6 Land, Water and Greenways
8.7 Xeriscaping
8.8 Vertical Garden and Urban Farming
8.9 Cultural Spaces
9 Environmental Services
9.1 Service Level Benchmarking (SLB)
9.2 Sustainable Urban Drainage
9.3 Concept of Biodrainage and Zero Runoff
9.4 Retention Systems
9.5 Waste Management
9.6 Waste Management Rules
9.7 Composting Option
9.8 Resource Recovery from Construction and Demolition Waste
9.9 Smart Solutions
9.10 Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)
10 Housing for All and Sustainable Construction
10.1 Slum Population
10.2 Slum Rehabilitation Norms
10.3 Kathputli In Situ Slum Rehabilitation Project
10.4 Slum Rehabilitation Scheme (SRS) in Mumbai
10.5 Resettlement of Slums Under Mumbai Urban Transport Project
10.6 Community Driven Housing
10.7 Space Sharing Models
10.8 Rental Housing
10.9 Land as a Resource
10.10 Inclusive and Adequate Housing
10.11 Digital Land Records and Property Transactions
10.12 Tenure Rights
10.13 Compact and Dense Housing
10.14 Green Building and Resources
10.15 Building Resources Pyramid
10.16 Mainstreaming Sustainability
10.17 Optimising Housing Costs
10.18 Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM)
10.19 Circular Economy and Sustainable Construction
10.20 Emerging Technologies
10.21 Precast Building Systems
10.22 Large-Panel Systems
10.23 Frame Systems
10.24 Slab-Column System with Shear Wall
10.25 Self-healing Concrete
10.26 Rapid Wall
10.27 Modular Plug-in Units
10.28 Solar Mapping and Net-Zero Energy
10.29 Wind Energy
11 Reimagining the City
11.1 UN Conference of the Parties (COP26 and COP27)
11.2 Environment and Urban Development
11.3 Spatial Analytics
11.4 Observation, Abstraction and Analysis
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