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Building from waste : recovered materials in architecture and construction /

Aconceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigure...

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Main Authors: Hebel, Dirk E.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Heisel, Felix; Wisniewska, Marta H.
Published: Birkhauser,
Publisher Address: Basel/Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Salvage (Waste, etc.)
Waste products as building materials.
Waste Management.
Ingenieurbau und Umwelttechnik.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General. > General.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783038213758
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Summary: Aconceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials.A product directory presents all materials and projects according to their functional uses.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(200pages) : illustrations
Also available in print edition.
Bibliography: 15 schw.-w. u. 265 farb. Fotos, 70 schw.-w. Zeichn.
ISBN: 9783038213758
Index Number: TA403
CLC: X705
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction /
City and Refuse /
Hands Off: Urban Mining! /
Densified Waste Materials --
Reconfigured Waste Materials --
Transformed Waste Materials --
Designed Waste Materials --
Organic Waste Design /
Cultivated Waste Materials --
Product Directory --
Appendix.

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