Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

HVAC Fundamentals, System Design, Operation, Selection, and Optimization fully covers the full range of HVAC systems used in today's facilities and how they operate.

Personnel Protection: Threat Assessment Profile is a video presentation.

This third edition provides a comprehensive update and expansion on the principles and practices of Energy-Centered Maintenance (ECM).

This book captures the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change (GREEN 2024), organized by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe.

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs.

Understand, Plan, and Prepare for Emergencies and DisastersDevelop and implement effective emergency management plans throughout your organization using the detailed information contained in this practical guide.

This booklet is the first in a twelve part series that walks the owner/builder through the construction of a Global Model Earthship.

Earthships son un tipo de edificación autosuficiente que se mantiene al margen de las redes de suministros energéticos y que se considera como un edificio "viviente", ya que interactúa con los recursos naturales de la tierra para proporcionar un refugio confortable que regula de forma pasiva su temperatura interior (sin necesidad de utilizar ningún combustible fósil), capta su propio suministro de agua y al mismo tiempo reutiliza cada gota recolectada cuatro veces, hace un tratamiento de sus propias aguas residuales y permite el cultivo y crecimiento de comida en su interior.

A Coming of Wizards is about finding and moving toward our potential.

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment?

Written for students and practitioners in the fields of architecture and interior design, our new Architecture Brief Sustainable Design provides a concise overview of all the techniques available for reducing the energy footprint of structures and spaces.

Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes.

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Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors.

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

Physicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care.

Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders: How to Develop Yourself and Implement Process Improvements aims to solve the issues in modern day healthcare by handing over the reins of the improvement process to healthcare professionals.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

In this timely book, Walter E.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

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

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

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Technology is revolutionizing the way real estate is designed, operated, and valued.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

This book reflects the current state of knowledge on sustainability in a wide range of fields, from engineering to agriculture, to education.

This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

These proceedings present fourteen peer-reviewed papers from the 10th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities, which was held March 21-22, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

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

The book connects the ICT and the architectural worlds, analyzing modeling, materialization and data-driven visions for design issues at different scales.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city.

This book discusses the role of food and the human nutrition-behavior interface.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

This edited volume on challenges in structural and bridge engineering brings together contributions to this important area of engineering research.

This book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Network's 28thanniversary congress at the University of Kingston in London.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in building industry.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

The book covers practical applications and experimental results of integrating renewable energy technologies, energy storage facilities, and intelligent control and operation techniques into building energy systems.

This book emphasizes the important message that architects and structural engineers must strive to ensure that the buildings they design and construct should not be major contributors to climate change.

The book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method "e;beyond"e; the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative.

This book provides a collection of recent research works, related to structural stability and durability, service life, reinforced concrete structures, recycled materials, and sustainability with endogenic materials.