Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

Dieses Buch ermöglicht die systematische Vorbereitung auf die IHK-Prüfung im Fach "Immobiliengeschäft" im Studium für Bankfachwirte.

** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design.

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue.

In diesem Buch erläutert Raimund Wurzel Schritt für Schritt, wie private Eigentümer ihre Immobilien erfolgreich veräußern.

This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread.

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering the full range of renewable energy technologies and their implementation worldwide.

One of the key motivations and goals for China's social and economic development is the dual carbon target.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024.

Property and Money is a simple guide to the investment and financial aspects of commercial property.

This book adopts a multidimensional approach to explain current practices and trends in facility management.

Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs.

Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy, clever or cool.

Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H.

Now in this fourth edition, the Facilities Management Handbook has been fully updated from the acclaimed previous editions, continuing its status as an invaluable resource to those working in facilities management, whether just starting out or as seasoned campaigners and practitioners.

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent.

The challenges of affordable housing are manifold.

This book is concerned with one kind of property - privately rented housing, in one city - Edinburgh, and with those who, over the past century or so, have been able to accumulate, control and dispose of it.

This book gathers the proceedings of the Energy and Sustainability 2018 Symposium (EAS 2018) held in Windsor, Canada in June 2018.

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent.

Enhancing Interoperability and Automation of Construction Waste Quantification outlines the construction waste quantification (CWQ) modelling that supports data-driven decision-making in the built environment.

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM_2016, 21st International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.

Programming for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture presents a new approach to architectural programming that includes sustainability, neuroscience and human factors.

EG Council Tax Handbook is a timely publication.

This book introduces the UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and summarizes progress in this area.

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type.

The Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate Handbook explains everything you need to know to locate and purchase real estate bargains from banks, public auctions, and other sources.

Whatever your type of business, this practical handbook will help you to manage your premises effectively.

Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries know how to prepare for, endure, and survive any type of disaster.

Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities.

Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year 2050 bringing together leading research and practice at building, neighbourhood, and city levels.

This book addresses the emergence of biophilic design, a form of design that looks at people's intrinsic connection with nature.

The book presents the select proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention.

Can we 'save the Planet'?

This book provides a blueprint for action for readers making decisions about how to improve the energy efficiency and performance of new or existing buildings.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

Maximizing reader insights into a new movement toward leadership approaches that are collaborated and shared, and which views Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and performance excellence within the wider examination of leadership relationships and practices, this book argues that these relationships and processes are so central to the establishment of OSH functioning that studying them warrants a broad, cross-disciplinary, multiple method analysis.

This book is conceptualized as being of interest to researchers in the field of sustainable transport, and also those who are working in the field.

In this timely book, Walter E.

The book explores how architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms have been adapting and changing to effectively address key environmental challenges, focusing on Life Cycle Thinking and related methodologies (Life Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Costing).

Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping.

This book addresses essential questions about housing by building theoretical models based on various real world problems in Japan and testing these models using econometric methods.

This book focuses on high-speed rail (HSR) and new town planning and development related to HSR, approaching the issue from three different perspectives: economic cooperation at a regional level; HSR-based economic growth point at a city level; and mixed land use and building environment in the periphery area of HSR stations.

Personnel Protection: Advance Procedures is a video presentation.

Handbook of Materials Failure Analysis: With Case Studies from the Chemicals, Concrete and Power Industries provides an in-depth examination of materials failure in specific situations, a vital component in both developing and engineering new solutions.