Experts consider green construction and the social, institutional, and cultural changes associated with it, through a sociological and organizational lens.

Incluye Biografías (páginas 351-358), referencias bibliográficas (páginas 360 - 399) e índice.

Energy -- Food -- Materials -- Governance -- Investment -- Wellness -- Curriculum -- Interpretation -- Aesthetics

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.

Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability (Ambientes urbanos e industriales)