Green Building: An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Construction - Softcover

Carrico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128243651 ISBN 13: 9780128243657

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2025

Synopsis

**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award Winner**

Green Building: An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Construction fills a void in green building which has good textbook options for practitioners, architects, and sustainability experts, but not an engineering focused textbook focused on green building. This new text takes an engineering approach to evaluating green building techniques, systems, and materials. The book examines the built environment from inside out, looking at minimizing environmental impacts while also considering the economics and energy use and efficiency. While not a test-prep book, it will provide the knowledge foundation that will help prepare the students to take the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation exam.

As students are often unclear on the evolving employment prospects in this field, particularly for the engineer, the textbook also features six case studies showing different career pathways for engineers in this arena.

• Takes a quantitative and analytical engineering approach to evaluating green building techniques, systems, and materials
• Includes dedicated engineering examples and end-of-chapter problems that help develop students’ problem-solving and analytical skills
• Combines conceptual and calculational aspects that link to both big-picture issues (e.g., how many Hiroshima blasts per year is the radiative forcing equivalent to, along with everyday considerations like climate change real-life experiences (how much do I have to insulate my chicken coop to keep them warm passively in the winter)
• Links textbook coverage to ABET criteria for accreditation of engineering programs

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Kip Carrico is an Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering at New Mexico Tech. Dr. Carrico’s area of specialization is air quality, aerosols, climate change and their relationship to energy. His experience includes co-authorship on over 50 technical journal articles in the peer-reviewed literature. He has taught junior-senior level classes on air quality, thermodynamics, energy and the environment, and green building among others. Prior to joining the faculty at New Mexico Tech, he served as a senior scientist and project manager at AECOM, Inc., providing consulting for industrial clients, many in the energy sector. Previous positions included research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and postdoctoral scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology Civil and Environmental Engineering program. Dr. Carrico earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering with an air quality and climate specialization from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From the Back Cover

Green Building: An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Construction fills a void in green building which has good textbook options for practitioners, architects, and sustainability experts, but not an engineering focused textbook focused on green building. This new text takes an engineering approach to evaluating green building techniques, systems and materials. The book examines the built environment from inside out in looking at minimizing environmental impacts while also considering the economics. Energy use and efficiency are key concerns. While not a test-prep book, it will provide the knowledge foundation that will help prepare the students to take the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation exam―an important program and credential in this field. Unique aspects of the book include taking an engineering problem-solving approach, integration of ABET criteria 1-7, selected case studies, problem solving exercises and solved examples, and semester-long project suggestions (energy audit, model green building and others). As students are often unclear on the evolving employment prospects in this field, particularly for the engineer, the textbook will also feature six case studies showing different career pathways for engineers in this arena.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128243651
• ISBN 13: 9780128243657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466