Browse by Topic - Sustainability

This report presents guidelines that are intended to advance the understanding of sustainability in the structural community and to incorporate concepts of sustainability into structural engineering standards and practices.

Laugesen and his colleagues draw upon their experiences in Malaysia, Thailand, and other countries to inspire innovation and improvement in wastewater treatment and management.

Albright, Benson, and Waugh present the latest research regarding water balance covers for solid waste sites, along with case studies drawn from current field testing.

This collection contains 152 peer-reviewed papers presented at Construction Research Congress 2009, held in Seattle, Washington, April 5-7, 2009.

This volume reports on anthropogenic chemicals, a new category of environmental contaminant that is predominantly unregulated and human-made, occurring in air, soil, water, food, and human and animal tissues in trace concentrations.

In this complete handbook for international engineering service projects, James Mihelcic and his coauthors provide the tools necessary to implement the right technology in developing regions around the world.

This report contains 32 selected papers that address a broad range of topics connected to sustainable stormwater management using the Low Impact Development (LID) technology.

This collection contains 121 papers presented at the 2008 International Low Impact Development Conference, held in Seattle, Washington, November 16-19, 2008.

This report collects the latest information on recent trends in the bioconversion of sludge to value-added products such as biopesticides, biosurfactants, enzymes, bioplastics, and biofertilizers/bioflocculants.

This report presents examples of BMP (Best Management Practice) options for use in the management of urban watersheds.