Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

This edited volume is a compilation of the 'built environment' in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design.

The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries.

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

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

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

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book draws on important original transdisciplinary research to address a wide range of issues relating to the remodeling of existing schools for pre-teenagers to fit them to various novel teaching models (e.

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

This book examines bioclimatic design with a focus on the application of climate adaptability in the design of future buildings and renovation of existing energy-efficient buildings.

This book is presented to demonstrate how energy efficiency can be achieved in existing systems or in the design of a new system, as well as a guide for energy savings opportunities.

A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands.

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

This book examines noise-monitoring technologies and tools for registering the threshold of development of the latent period of the transition of a facility or product into an emergency state and controlling the dynamics of this development.

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

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.

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.

This book presents a new approach to building renovation, combining aspects of various professional disciplines, integrating green building design, structural stability, and energy efficiency.

This edited volume consists of three parts.

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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.

The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus -by means of direct aids- and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions.

This book explains the nuts and bolts of affordable housing development.

This book deals with Invitations to Tender (ITTs) for the provision of Facility Management (FM) services.

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

This volume presents innovative work on innovative methods, tools and practices aimed at supporting the transition of Asian and Middle Eastern cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

This book examines bioclimatic design with a focus on the application of climate adaptability in the design of future buildings and renovation of existing energy-efficient buildings.

This edited volume consists of three parts.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Cold Climate HVAC conference, which was held in Kiruna, Sweden in 2018.

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

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

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects.

This edited volume is a compilation of the 'built environment' in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design.

This book explains the nuts and bolts of affordable housing development.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the LUTI model from many aspects such as principles, methods and practice.

This book offers a valuable tool for understanding current efforts to promote the reuse and enhancement of pre-consumer waste in the development of new products for the construction sector, as well as the financial and regulatory tools being used to support this trend.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the LUTI model from many aspects such as principles, methods and practice.

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

This book contains a comprehensive guide to the latest developments in building and bridge construction.

This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources.

This two-volume set describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources.

In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "e;matter out of place.

The book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions.

This book contains selected papers from the 22nd World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2023) in Kuala Lumpur.

Would your routine office fire drill be able to handle the large-scale chaos of a major disaster?

Would your routine office fire drill be able to handle the large-scale chaos of a major disaster?

This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources.

This is the MOB manifesto for change: a straight-talking handbook that deals with the ecological problems of our age and shows us how we can tackle them from our kitchens, the MOB way.

Cath Kidston - queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces - grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book.

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If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it.