Guide to ASCE Sustainability Development Publications

ASCE has published dozens of books and references that contain hard guidance on putting sustainable techniques into practice. These cover most disciplines and specialties.
For your convenience, here is a list of relevant publications, divided by specialty. Click on the title to go to the publication's page at ASCE's online bookstore.

Sustainable Engineering Practice: An Introduction. ASCE Committee on Sustainability, 2004.

Computing in Civil Engineering. William J. O’Brien and Carlos H. Caldas, editors. ASCE 2009.  

Computing in Civil Engineering; Proceedings of the 2007 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering. July 24-27, 2007, Pittsburgh. Lucio Soibelman and Burcu Akinci, editors. ASCE 2007.  

Construction

Building a Sustainable Future; Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress. Samuel T. Ariaratnam and Eddy Rojas, editors. ASCE, 2009.  

Environmental and Water Resources

Energy and Water: Sustainable Development: Proceedings of Theme D: Water for a Changing Global Community; The 27th Congress of the International Association for Hydraulic Research held in San Francisco, August 10-15, 1997. Pierre-Louis Viollet and John S. Gulliver, Editors, ASCE 1997.    

Engineering Strategies for Global Climate Change -- special issue of Leadership and Management in Engineering, Volume 8, Number 3, July 2008.

Field Guide to Environmental Engineering for Development Workers: Water, Sanitation, and Indoor Air. Linda D. Phillips, et al., ASCE 2009.

Low Impact Development: New & Continuing Applications. Michael Luis Clar, editor. ASCE, 2009.

Sustainable Sludge Management: Production of Value Added Products. Tian Cheng Zhang, et al., editors. ASCE 2009.

Sustaining Urban Water Resources in the 21st Century; Proceedings of the Conference held September 7-12, 1997, Malmo, Sweden. Peter Stahre, Larry A. Roesner, and A. Charles Rowney, editors. ASCE, 1999.

Advances in Ground Improvement (GSP 188); Research Practice in the United States. Vernon R. Schaefer, et al, editors. ASCE, 2009.

Characterization, Modeling, and Performance of Geomaterials (GSP 189). Xiong Zhang, et al., editors. ASCE 2009.

GeoCongress 2008: Geosustainability and Geohazard Mitigation (GSP 178). Milind V. Khire, Krishna R. Reddy, and Akram N. Alshawabkeh, editors. ASCE, 2008.

Green House: The Energy Efficient Home. Sharda G. Sabnis, Gajanan M. Sabnis, and Edward J. Martin, Drylongso Publishing, 2007.

Structures Congress 2009: Don’t Mess With Structural Engineers – Expanding Our Role. Todd A. Helwig, et al., editors. ASCE 2009.

TCLEE 2009: Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multihazard Environment. Stuart D. Werner and Alex Tang, editors. ASCE 2009.

Transportation and Development

Automated People Movers 2009; Connecting People, Connecting Places, Connecting Modes. Robert Richard
Griebenow, editor. ASCE 2009.  

Civil Engineering in the Asia Region; Asian Infrastructure, Sustainable Development, and Project Manager. Proceedings of the First International Civil Engineering Conference in Manila, Philippines, February 19-20, 1998. Elizabeth A. Downey, editor. ASCE, 1998.

Engineering and Construction for Sustainable Development in Assessing Global Research Needs. CERF Report No. 96-5016A. CERF, 1995.
 

International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009. Yanjun Qiu, et al, editors. ASCE 2009.

Logistics: The Emerging Frontiers of Transportation and Development in China (NACOTA 2008). Rongfang (Rachael) Liu, Jin Zhang, and Changqian Guan, editors. ASCE 2008.

Low Impact Development for Urban Ecosystem and Habitat Protection. Nian She and Michael Luis Clar, editors. ASCE, 2009.

Ship Channel Design & Operation No. 107; ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice. ASCE, 2005.

Transportation & Development: Innovative Best Practices 2008. Louis F. Cohn, editor. ASCE 2008.

Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality. Srinivas Subrahmanyam Pulugurtha, editor. ASCE 2009.

Urban Public Transportation Systems: Ensuring Sustainability; Ensuring Sustainability Through Mass Transit --Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Urban Public Transportation Systems, held in Alexandria, Virginia, April 14-18, 2002. Walter Kulyk, editor. ASCE 2004.