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Bauregelwerke prägen formgebend die uns umgebende, gebaute Umwelt. Sie sind Ausdruck der Baukultur und damit des Selbstverständnisses und der Weltanschauung einer Gesellschaft. Doch in den letzten Jahren wird der Diskurs zunehmend von einem Gefühl der Überregulierung geprägt. Widerstand richtet sich gegen die steigende Zahl bautechnischer Normen, die zu einem drastischen Anstieg des Planungsaufwandes und der Baukosten geführt hat. Was läuft also schief? Mit einem kulturvergleichenden Blick auf die Situation in den USA liefert San-Hwan Lu ein aufschlussreiches Bild über die Hintergründe und Folgen einer Verlagerung von Regulierungskompetenzen in den privaten Bereich.

Architektur; Baukultur; Baurecht; Europa; USA; Normierung; Überregulierung; Privatisierung; Bauwirtschaft; Stadt; Stadtplanung; Kultursoziologie; Architecture; Building Culture; Europe; Standardization; Overregulation; Privatization; Construction Industry; City; Urban Planning; Sociology of Culture --- Europe. --- United States. --- Building Culture. --- City. --- Construction Industry. --- Overregulation. --- Privatization. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Standardization. --- USA. --- Urban Planning.

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Convents are revived as kindergartens, and an old prison receives a second life as a law school. In Flanders, daring transformations of existing architecture are raising the bar on adaptive reuse. Historical structures are adapted to the current needs of their users and given new functions thanks to meticulous renovations and innovative extensions. Contemporary Flemish architecture stands out with its creative conversions. This book documents outstanding examples of adaptive reuse across the Flanders region of northern Belgium. It presents a portrait of Flanders’ amazingly vibrant adaptive architecture with 24 bold and pragmatic projects by De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, noAarchitecten, Blaf, Korteknie Stuhlmacher, Atelier Kempe Thill, Zaha Hadid and many other architectural studios.

Architektur im Bestand --- Regionale Baukultur --- Umbau --- regional building culture --- Conversion of existing buildings --- adaptive reuse projects --- Reconversion de bâtiment -- Building conversion --- (Produktform)Paperback / softback --- (VLB-WN)1955: Hardcover, Softcover / Sachbücher/Kunst, Literatur/Architektur --- Buildings --- Constructions --- Remodeling for other use --- Reconversion --- Architecture --- Flanders --- adaptive reuse --- renovations [building parts]

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Wood-based materials are CO2-neutral, renewable, and considered to be environmentally friendly. The huge variety of wood species and wood-based composites allows a wide scope of creative and esthetic alternatives to materials with higher environmental impacts during production, use and disposal. Quality of wood is influenced by the genetic and environmental factors. One of the emerging uses of wood are building and construction applications. Modern building and construction practices would not be possible without use of wood or wood-based composites. The use of composites enables using wood of lower quality for the production of materials with engineered properties for specific target applications. Even more, the utilization of such reinforcing particles as carbon nanotubes and nanocellulose enables development of a new generation of composites with even better properties. The positive aspect of decomposability of waste wood can turn into the opposite when wood or wood-based materials are exposed to weathering, moisture oscillations, different discolorations, and degrading organisms. Protective measures are therefore unavoidable for many outdoor applications. Resistance of wood against different aging factors is always a combined effect of toxic or inhibiting ingredients on the one hand, and of structural, anatomical, or chemical ways of excluding moisture on the other.

neural network --- Pinus massoniana Lamb. --- intra-ring variation --- relative humidity --- ultimate state --- nondestructive assessment --- machinability --- stiffness --- wood based composites --- bamboo --- poplar seedlings --- thinning --- blue staining fungi --- tropical woods --- compression --- bending stiffness --- wooden windows --- ultrasonic wave velocity measurement --- glued lamella --- three-point bending --- wood properties --- technological and product innovations --- structural changes --- non-destructive testing --- hardwoods --- brittleness --- green larch --- root-collar diameter --- FTIR --- material preference --- cooling tower --- tensile modulus --- strength grading --- immigrants --- weight of a user --- density --- flexible chair --- predictive performance --- heat treatment --- modulus of elasticity --- orthotropic --- acoustic resonance --- building material --- CIEL*a*b* system --- deflection at the modulus of rupture --- marketing --- bamboo grid packing --- fungi --- minimal curve radius --- European hardwoods --- cyclic loading --- chemical composition --- laminated wood --- volume yield --- tensile strength --- artificial weathering --- glulam --- dynamic modulus of elasticity --- colour changes --- modulus of elasticity (MOE) --- coefficient of wood bendability --- urban housing --- Resistance to Impact Milling (RIM) --- nondestructive testing --- Coniophora puteana --- roughness --- brown rot --- wood --- phenol formaldehyde resin --- wood-processing industry performance --- elemental composition --- natural weathering --- longitudinal stress wave velocity --- mechanical properties --- aluminium reinforcements --- chemical changes --- colour change --- High-Energy Multiple Impact (HEMI)–test --- plantation timber --- fiber-managed hardwoods --- cooling packing --- wood mechanical properties --- flexural rigidity --- moisture content --- ultrasonic speed --- color --- elastic constants --- Douglas-fir --- mixed-effects hierarchical linear models --- wood impregnation --- dynamic strength --- microfibril angle --- silviculture --- low quality round wood --- Eucalyptus --- hybrid beams --- end-product-based fiber attribute determinates --- high frequency drying --- infrared spectroscopy --- building culture background --- lumber --- Euler-Bernoulli --- ultrasound --- cell-wall mechanics --- colour --- deflection at the limit of proportionality