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Aluminium: Flexible and Light, Towards Sustainable Cities

Stacey, M; (2016) Aluminium: Flexible and Light, Towards Sustainable Cities. Towards Sustainable Cities: Vol.4. (First Edition ed.). Cwningen Press: Llundain, (London), United Kingdom. Green open access

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Aluminium: Flexible and Light is book four in the Towards Sustainable Cities series. It demonstrates the flexibility of aluminium in the many production and fabrication processes that can be used to transform and deploy this light and durable metal, from casting, roll forming, extruding, spinning and direct digital printing. Fabrication processes include: laser and water jet cutting, welding, friction stir welding. The role of aluminium in creating thermally efficient yet highly transparent glazing systems is discussed. Key case studies demonstrating and quantifying the carbon savings arising from the specification of aluminium based architecture include: Kielder Probes by sixteen*(makers), Guy’s Hospital Tower by Penoyre & Prasad, dlr Lexicon by Carr Cotter & Naessens, i360 by Marks Barfield Architects and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Included in this book is the first complete history of the use of aluminium in bridge construction from 1933 to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Type: Book
Title: Aluminium: Flexible and Light, Towards Sustainable Cities
ISBN-13: 9780993016233
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119212
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