Facilities management is a broad-based discipline that calls into play architectural, construction, engineering, and management and human skills-particularly for running and maintaining commercial, institutional, academic, and industrial buildings.
Build Strong, Energy-efficient, Sustainable Walls with Prefab Straw Bale Panels Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Prefab Straw Bale Construction is the complete guide to designing and installing prefabricated straw bale wall panelsan innovative, low-carbon alternative to conventional construction.
The Complete Guide to High-Performance Hempcrete Building Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Hempcrete Construction is the definitive step-by-step guide to designing and building with hempcretean energy-efficient, breathable, low-carbon insulation material for walls, roofs, and floors.
An inspiring instructional handbook for transforming idealism into social change The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless one, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued.
All those of us without traditional skills need to know to build with timber framing Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials.
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 book includes peer reviewed article from the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC-2024) held at Chandigarh in India.
This book proposes an economic and environmental assessment tool to help private and public building designers and owners determine the global sustainability value of green buildings from a life cycle perspective.
Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.
El libro propone un recorrido del exterior al interior: comienza por el emplazamiento y su entorno, sigue por las diversas envolventes del edificio y termina con el análisis de los aspectos ambientales de la iluminación, la calefacción y los sistemas de climatización.
This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.
This book delves into the transformative potential of neuromorphic computing within the realm of civil engineering, emphasizing its role in advancing smart infrastructure systems.
Dieses Buch erklärt, was die ESG-Kriterien Umwelt, Soziales und Governance für die Immobilienbranche bedeuten und wie Unternehmen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der Praxis umsetzen können.
Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.
Dieses Buch erklärt, was die ESG-Kriterien Umwelt, Soziales und Governance für die Immobilienbranche bedeuten und wie Unternehmen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in der Praxis umsetzen können.
Vivimos, desde hace más de un siglo, la época de las grandes ciudades y, coincidentemente, el tiempo de las grandes guerras, una época caracterizada por la destrucción monumental.
Este libro describe qué es la educación Montessori una educación para la vida y en la diversidad, los fundamentos filosóficos y las características principales de un enfoque en el que el niño es el protagonista de su propio aprendizaje, en el cual aprende haciendo, en interacción con un ambiente creado especialmente por un educador preparado que tiene una mirada integral del niño, y lo guía para que pueda desplegar sus habilidades y máximo potencial.
El objetivo de este libro es acercar a los estudiantes, investigadores e interesados en la temática de la arquitectura un panorama del debate actual sobre el proyecto arquitectónico y sus mutuas implicancias en la sustentabilidad.
This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge effects in addition to the world's reliance on fossil fuel and non-renewable resources.
The book contains the latest studies on digitalization of transport and logistics, improving vehicle fuel efficiency, information technology and digital security, land management and cadastres, building structures, structural analysis, and energy conservation in construction.
Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes.
This book presents select proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials (ASCM 2020) and examines a range of durable, energy-efficient, and next-generation construction materials produced from industrial wastes and by-products.
There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.
This book includes papers on intelligent expert systems and sustainability applications in the areas of data science, image processing, wireless communication, risk assessment, healthcare, intelligent social network mining, and energy.
The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.
The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai.
This book of CRIOCM 2021 (26th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate) presents the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.
