The Sustainable Sites Handbook (ePub)

Foreword ix Michael Van Valkenburgh Letter from SITES Partners xi Chapter 1 - Introduction 1 Meg Calkins Sustainable Site Design Defined 2 The Contents and Structure of This Book 27 Chapter 2 - Predesign: Site Selection, Assessment, and Planning 33 Heather Venhaus Site Selection 33 Understanding the Site 41 Team Development and Planning Strategies 54 Developing Project Direction: Principles, Goals, and Performance Targets 58 Chapter 3 - Site Design: Water 65 Alfred Vick, John Calabria, Stuart Echols, Michael Ogden, and David Yocca Sustainable Stormwater Management 72 Stormwater Design Approaches 104 Water Conservation 148 Onsite Wastewater Treatment, Disposal, and Reuse 166 Chapter 4 - Site Design: Vegetation 197 Steve Windhager, Mark Simm ons, and Jacob Blue Vegetation and Ecosystem Services 202 Vegetation Protection Techniques 213 Sustainable Planting Design and Management 216 Chapter 5 - Site Design: Soils 247 Nina Bassuk and Susan Day Integrating Soil into the Design Process 249 Soils in the Site Assessment 251 Soil Characteristics and Associated Tests 265 Managing Soils for a Sustainable Site 295 Soil Replacement and Specialized Soils 310 The Soil Management Plan 316 Chapter 6 - Site Design: Materials and R esources 323 Meg Calkins The Lifecycle of Construction Materials and Products 327 Environmental Impacts of Materials and Products 331 Human Health Impacts of Materials 344 Evaluating Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Materials 348 Inventory and Analysis for Materials 358 Resource Efficiency 360 Low-VOC Materials and Products 390 Materials to Minimize Heat Island Impacts 390 Concrete 396 Aggregates and Stone 398 Asphalt 401 Brick Masonry 403 Earthen Materials 404 Plastics 407 Metals 409 Bio-Based Materials 413 Wood 416 Site Lighting 421 Chapter 7 - Human Health and Well-Being for Sustainable Sites 429 Robert Ryan Assessing the Site's Social Setting 432 Sustainability Awareness and Education 436 Social Equality in Site Development, Construction, and

MEG CALKINS, ASLA, LEED AP, is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ball State University. As an officer of ASLA's Sustainable Development Professional Practice Network, Meg was part of a small team that approached ASLA about forming the effort that eventually grew into the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Today, Meg is a member of the SITES Technical Core Committee. She served for many years on the LEED Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group. Meg is the author of Materials for Sustainable Sites and is an editorial advisory board member of and contributor to Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards, both published by Wiley. She holds master's degrees in both landscape architecture and architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.

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