Common ground, consensus building, and continual improvement
Subtitle: standards and sustainable building, first international symposium
By: Dru Meadows and Alison Kinn Bennett, editors.
Contributors: Meadows, Dru.; Bennett, Alison Kinn, 1974-; ASTM International.
Publisher: ASTM International
Published: 2009
Place of publication: West Conshohocken, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780803145078
Subjects: Sustainable buildings -- Congresses; Building -- Standards -- Congresses; Green technology -- Congresses; Sustainable architecture -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Thirteen peer-reviewed papers examine current and developing sustainable building and product standards for manufacturers, designers, retailers, the general public, and government regulators. The key objectives for a high performance building include: accessibility, aesthetics, cost effectiveness, functionality, historic preservation, security, safety, and sustainability. This new ASTM publication helps to demonstrate that sustainable building standards are at the forefront of high performance building objectives. They help define environmental preferability; life cycle assessment; and chemicals of concern, while balancing environmental, economic, and social considerations."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Papers presented at  a symposium held in Washington, DC, 19-20 April, 2007 sponsored by the ASTM International Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings, Subcommittee E06.71 on Sustainability.

"ASTM stock number: STP1503."

Includes bibliographical references and index.