Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

The book explores the pivotal role of science and technology in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) outlined in the agenda 2030 for sustainable development.

This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles.

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

This book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience and climate change preparedness.

In diesem Band stehen volkswirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge und ihre Anwendung im Fokus.

What opportunities does Design to Value afford the built environment?

Facilities Management sets out a new framework for the discipline of facilities management which challenges many of the norms and which sets out new methods for optimising the performance of a business.

Lean TPM is an accessible, step-by-step guide designed to help you increase manufacturing efficiency through continuous improvement.

Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes.

The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions for the complex challenges of our understanding of planetary resources and circularity, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society.

Diese Veröffenlichung untersucht Lösungansätzen für die Immobilienentwicklung zur Verbesserung der sozialen Integration und des persönlichen Wohlbefindens Älterer bei Gemeinschaftswohnformen.

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

Interest in green and sustainable design is growing throughout the world.

"e;Patterns"e; of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander's theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language.

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.

Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the power of high-quality fuels.

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 interchange is a new form of transport building which integrates into a single whole various modes of public transport, putting the passenger first (rather than the infrastructure).

The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water.

Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK.

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible.

This book showcases the latest trends and innovations in the field of Green Building, covering topics from research and design to innovative practices and challenges.

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century.

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

This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable.

OverviewNo previous works have focused on the topic of inventory reduction and optimization to the extent that this one does.

This book includes articles from the Third International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICSSEA 2023), held at Da Nang City, Vietnam, on July 19-21, 2023.

Designbuild Education adopts the intellectual framework of American Pragmatism, which is a theory of action, to investigate architects' compelling urge to build and how that manifests in collegiate designbuild programs.

This research book aims to conceptualise the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in energy efficient building design and to develop its functional solutions with a focus on four crucial aspects of building envelop, building layout, occupant behaviour and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems.

From BIM (building information modeling) to RFID (radio frequency identification) to BAS (building automation and control systems), facility managers of today's commercial buildings are often asked to work with a variety of technologies without any experience in IT.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI) 2019.

This book critically examines Sustainable Development Goals and cities in developing countries with special reference to climate change, inclusion, diversity, and citizen rights in India.

This book includes the proceedings of the Responsible Engineering and Living 2022 Symposium and Industry Summit.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2022), held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2022.

At the beginning of each year, there is a deluge of top-10 lists on just about every subject you can imagine.

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

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.

Energy-efficient technologies are necessary to lower the carbon footprint for a transition towards clean energy in a sustainable manner.

Spaces of Tolerance addresses the topic of tolerance in architectural production.

This book is the most comprehensive review of health and safety in half a century.

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.

Integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering Practices (ICSCEP 2019).

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The second edition of Sustainable Construction provides a masterclass on the principles and techniques involved in the design and delivery of practical, affordable, high quality sustainable buildings and places.