ASTM Special Technical Publications：Common ..

Common Ground, Consensus Building and Continual Improvement: InternationalStandards and Sustainable Building
Publisher: ASTM International | ISBN: 0803145071 | edition 2009 | PDF |130 pages | 3,5 mb

This publication, Common Ground, Consensus Building, and ContinualImprovement: Standards and Sustainable Building, contains papers presented atthe first international symposium of the same name held in Washington, DC, on19-20 April, 2007. The symposium was sponsored by the ASTM InternationalCommittee E06 on Performance of Buildings, Subcommittee E06.71 onSustainability. The symposium co-chairs were Alison Kinn Bennett, EPA and DruMeadows, theGreenTeam, Inc.The symposium, a first of its kind, brought togethergovernments, professional organizations, trade organizations, industry,standard developing organizations, and environmental organizations in adiscussion about current and developing sustainable building and productstandards. Furthermore, the symposium highlighted opportunities and needs forcoordination and consensus in the marketplace. Twenty-three papers werepresented at the symposium. This book contains a selection of 13 symposiumpapers published by the Journal of ASTM International "JAI". JAI isan online, peer-reviewed journal for the international scientific andengineering community. Publication in JAI allows r*挨批唉*d dissemination of thepapers as soon as they become available, while publication in this SpecialTechnical Publication "STP" is intended to provide easy access to thecondensed information in a single volume for future reference.