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Environmental aspects of concrete structures in sustainable society
Masaki, Tamura; Noguchi, Takafumi; Tomosawa, Fuminori;

In this study, "the environmental ethics", "the environmental consciousness among stakeholder" and "the design strategy considered the former contents", which are necessary for developing sustainable society is to be illustrated. The mainly results are as follows. 1) Sustainable society would be a fundamental concept of sustainable development, and in construction fields it would be necessary for considering as essential principles. 2) The environmental aspects for concrete structures are largely explained by the three-steps concepts as follows. The first is the regional and the earth-scale natural capitals such as water circulations, air circulations and material circulations. The second is the social systems categorized by technical factors, political factors and legal factors. The third is the substantial needs of individual and society based on the Masrow psychological theory regarding human needs. 3) The environmental aspects hierarchy would be useful as a material for clarifying "Projection Initiation" indicated as a diagram of technical, economic and environmental assessment in SLP and the location of project planning in the life cycle of the building/constructed asset in ISO/DIS 15686- 6's. 4) In order to clarifying and developing the environmental aspects of concrete structures in sustainable society, it would be effectiveness to introduce the design strategy constituted by 8 kinds of fundamental functions and the 4 kinds of design objects for concrete structures.

Keywords:
Sustainable Construction, Revaluing construction, sustainability, sustainable society, environmental aspect, social needs, real function, concrete, structure, recycle concrete,

Lyon (France) in-house publishing 2005 , p. 899-906 , figs.,refs. Conference: International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, 10 Lyon
Language: English

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