(BQ) Part 2 book "Construction economics - A new approach" has contents: Markets for green buildings and infrastructure, market failure and government intervention, environmental economics, the business case - inflation and expectations, sustainable construction,.and other contents. | Part B Protection and Enhancement of the Environment Chapter 9: Markets for Green Buildings and Infrastructure 147 Chapter 10: Market Failure and Government Intervention 163 Chapter 11: Environmental Economics 179 Reading 4 197 WEB REVIEWS: Protection and Enhancement of the Environment On working through Part B, the following websites should prove useful. The Building Research Establishment is a research-based consultancy with offices in England and Scotland. It has a particular expertise in the area of sustainable construction and its website advertises its latest products. Up-to-date information on the BREEAM schemes and whole life costing, introduced in Chapter 9, is available at this site. ENDS is an environmental data service, providing a daily news service on European environmental affairs. The homepage provides the opportunity to sample the organisation’s authoritative monthly report and has links to other environmental resources on the web. The information can be used in conjunction with all the chapter themes in this section – visit and see why it claims to be the best environmental website. For a different perspective, it is often interesting to look at information presented by non-government organisations. The Friends of the Earth site, for example, challenges the rise of corporate power. Pressure exerted by Friends of the Earth contributed to the decision by the construction firm Amec to pull out of building the Yusefeli dam in Turkey. Friends of the Earth’s website also has extensive links to other governmental and non-governmental sites. As the name implies, Buildoffsite is an organisation formed to promote modern methods of construction. It was established with government backing in 2005 to create a step change in the application of off-site techniques within the construction sector. It was initially set a target of raising expenditure on these techniques tenfold to £20 .
