Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

Proceedings of the Third Contractors' Meeting, Joint Research Centre, Ispara, Italy, 18-20 May 1988.

The value of an effective, well-defined, sustainable food safety management system is priceless.

Soak up carbon into beautiful, healthy buildings that heal the climate "e;Green buildings"e; that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren't enough.

This book offers the first comprehensive report on the topic of organizational innovation and sustainability of urban regeneration from the public manager's perspective.

This book explains how energy demand and energy consumption in new buildings can be predicted and how these aspects and the resulting CO2 emissions can be reduced.

Ein Adventskalender mit Magie statt Schokolade .

In diesem Buch wird ein Haus nicht als leblose Sache begriffen, sondern als ein beseeltes Wesen.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

Das Management von Büroimmobilien beschränkt sich meist auf die Reduzierung der Raumkosten.

Logistikimmobilien leisten in modernen Volkswirtschaften seit jeher einen enormen Beitrag für eine reibungslos funktionierende Lieferkette zwischen Industrie, Handel und Konsument.

Wohnen auf Zeit liegt im Trend.

Climate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action.

This book describes a broad view of sustainability as a crucial factor for the success of its implementation.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies.

How to build community, reduce waste, and create affordable, unique homes.

Buildings and their associated systems are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world.

Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climate The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods.

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world.

There are significant returns to be made from private equity, infrastructure, real estate and other illiquid investments, but a competitive strategy is essential for investment success and for meeting objectives.

The era of analog drawing is coming to an end.

Assesses to what extent increased international cooperation could help selected financial centres in Europe respond to the future risks and opportunities facing them.

This book analyses calendar anomalies in the real estate industry with a focus on the European market.

The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design.

This edited volume covers theoretical and practical aspects of circular economy in building development, offering chapters dealing with topics such as material design, affordability of housing development, waste management and recycling, smart metering, and more.

Teniendo en cuenta que la industria de la construcción consume alrededor del 50% de los recursos naturales mundiales, situación que la convierte en la actividad del hombre menos sostenible del planeta, resulta necesario para el arquitecto, en tanto diseñador del hábitat, pensar en un cambio paradigmático hacia el desarrollo sustentable, a fin de asegurar la satisfacción de las necesidades del hombre, no solo actuales, sino también de las generaciones futuras.

Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.

Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

Backed by science, The Imperfect Nutritionist celebrates food first, rather than looking at it as points on a plate.

Innovation in planning is essential to dealing with the challenges society currently faces, from urban sprawl to climate change.

It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live.

A guide to alternate water collection for green new developments, aimed at conserving water and reusing it wisely.

This book explains the challenges and barriers of island energy systems in the European Union.

This book describes results of research conducted with the goal of providing a framework, selected tools, and guidelines to significantly reduce energy use (by more than 50%) in government and public buildings.

Ecological and livable cities need an objective method to be examined.

This book reports on a large research project on community regeneration, which integrated the spatial, social, economic and organizational factors with the dimensions of sustainability, resilience and participation.

This book investigates energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of public housing, using post-war social housing development estates in Cyprus as its example.

Pflanzen sind Regenmacher, stehen an erster Stelle der Artenvielfalt, wachsen in Kreisläufen, sind ein wertvoller Bodenschatz, leben genügsam und nachhaltig, liefern Nahrung, machen uns gesund, nehmen unser Kohlendioxid auf und regulieren das Klima.

This book provides a different narrative and approach to rethinking stormwater management through sustainable urban design.

If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed.

If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This book applies traditional reliability engineering methods to prognostics and health management (PHM), looking at remaining useful life (RUL) and its dynamics, to enable engineers to effectively and accurately predict machinery and systems useful lifespan.