Sustainable Water (Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure Series) - Softcover

Ainger, Charles; Fenner, Richard A.

 
9780727757739: Sustainable Water (Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0727757733 ISBN 13: 9780727757739
Publisher: ICE Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Sustainable Water is a practical and accessible book for built environment professionals who play vital roles in creating and maintaining water services. It outlines a framework of fundamental principles, methodologies and approaches needed to deliver high quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe by approaching it from the time-limited, output-driven perspective of practical infrastructure engineers and practitioners. 

The applied examples from existent civil engineering projects identify the key sustainability issues and challenges for the water sector, their common principles and how these can be applied in practice.

As an invaluable resource Sustainable Water:

  • Identifies the sector priorities for change to sustainability
  • Uses the latest best practice
  • Describes opportunities and methodologies with leading edge examples
  • Discusses the barriers and potential ways to innovate
  • Identifies opportunities and constraints
  • Advises on the right questions to ask at each stage of project delivery

Sustainable Water identifies and applies the critical changes needed to provide more sustainable solutions, and to embed these into a tradition of excellent by delivering sufficient water through a good service, of the right quality and at an affordable cost, as straightforwardly as possible.

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University of Cambridge

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Publisher
ICE Publishing
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0727757733
ISBN 13 
9780727757739
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264