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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Rebecca L. Henn; Nicole Woolsey Biggart; Andrew J. Hoffman; Kathryn B. Janda; Gavin Killip; Nicholas B. Rajkovich; Alison G. Kwok; Larissa Larsen; Jock Herron; Amy Edmondson; Robert Eccles; Jie Zhang; Nitin R. Joglekar; Rohit Verma; Michael Conger; Jeffrey G. York; Ellen van Bueren; Bertien Broekhans; Kathy Velikov; Lyn Bartram; Geoffrey Thn; Lauren Barhydt; Johnny Rodgers; Robert Woodbury; Christine Mondor; David Deal; Stephen Hockley; Michelle Lueck; Jennifer E. Cross; Zinta S. Byrne; Bill Franzen; Stuart Reeve; Ronald Fry; Garima Sharma; Beth M. Duckles; Olivier Berthod; Clayton Bartczak; Brian Dunbar; Lenora Bohren; Monica Ponce de Leon; Bill Browning is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Experts consider green construction and the social, institutional, and cultural changes associated with it, through a sociological and organizational lens.Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational shifts that sustainable building requires, examining the fundamental challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green building represents.The contributors consider the changes associated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shifts in professional expertise created by new social concerns about green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, an

Author

Rebecca L. Henn; Nicole Woolsey Biggart; Andrew J. Hoffman; Kathryn B. Janda; Gavin Killip; Nicholas B. Rajkovich; Alison G. Kwok; Larissa Larsen; Jock Herron; Amy Edmondson; Robert Eccles; Jie Zhang; Nitin R. Joglekar; Rohit Verma; Michael Conger; Jeffrey G. York; Ellen van Bueren; Bertien Broekhans; Kathy Velikov; Lyn Bartram; Geoffrey Thn; Lauren Barhydt; Johnny Rodgers; Robert Woodbury; Christine Mondor; David Deal; Stephen Hockley; Michelle Lueck; Jennifer E. Cross; Zinta S. Byrne; Bill Franzen; Stuart Reeve; Ronald Fry; Garima Sharma; Beth M. Duckles; Olivier Berthod; Clayton Bartczak; Brian Dunbar; Lenora Bohren; Monica Ponce de Leon; Bill Browning

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262019415

Subjects

Architecture, Management, Engineering