Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

A unique and revolutionary text which explains the principles behind the LT Method (2.

The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector, including both buildings and infrastructure systems.

This book explores an emerging design culture that rigorously applies systems thinking to the practice of design as a form of facilitating change on an increasingly crowded planet.

This book investigates the creation of healthy and thermally comfortable built environments in a low-carbon manner with advanced air distribution, i.

This book presents a very useful and valuable collection of chapters associated with recent developments in energy, environment, and nanotechnology including nanofluids dynamics.

Covering the full life span of the project, from siting issues through specific design features to maintenance of the property and equipment, this is a comprehensive guide to designing, planning and building a solar house.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.

The work of the RILEM Technical Committee (TC -236 BBM) was dedicated to the study of construction materials made from plant particles.

Discover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects.

This book focuses on understanding biomimetic architecture and its role as a sustainable design tool.

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

This book centers on climate change, a pressing issue in the ecological transition, particularly for landscape and architecture schools.

This book explores the specific role that glazing technologies play within the world of smart architecture as important components of contemporary and future sustainable architectural and technological research.

Discover new approaches to green design and sustainable building with this comprehensive guide There's a substantial amount of information designers and architects need to understand about sustainability and commercial projects, especially as expectations for professionals in the industry become clearer.

This book contains contributions from an international scientific conference, "e;Smart Nations: Global Trends In The Digital Economy"e;, which was organized by the State University of Management (Moscow).

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.

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

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

This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth.

Written to complement civil engineers' technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions.

Das Buch bietet einen allgemeingültigen Leitfaden zur Implementierung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten in den einzelnen Leistungsphasen der HOAI.

“This well-illustrated case study .

This book describes how comfort, energy and climate change in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population relate to buildings.

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice.

Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, indoor environmental quality is still poor in many cases.

This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability.

This book offers the basics of embodied and operational carbon while discussing the inclusion of carbon emission in the GBRS at global and national level.

This book contains the proceedings of the 15th KES International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings 2023 (SEB2023) held in Bari, Italy, during September 18-20, 2023, organized by KES International.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.

The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 5th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2022, held on September 26-28, 2022, in Opole, Poland.

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings, with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems.

Cisterns: Sustainable Development, Architecture and Energy was written on beliefs that based on historical evidence and actual findings, Iran is most probably the country where cisterns, or Aub-anbars in Farsi, were first developed and built.

This book includes the most recent outcomes from research and professional practice in the ventilative cooling field, gathered by the selected panel of authors.

This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the Conference on Automation Innovation in Construction (CIAC-2019).

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

How to build community, reduce waste, and create affordable, unique homes.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

This is a definitive guide to the rebound effect in home heating - the increase in energy service use after a technological intervention aimed at reducing consumption.

Eine okologische Sanierung nach Passivhaus-Standard benotigt Know-how und Erfahrung.

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

In today's political climate the status and future of the trade unions are subjects of particular interest.

This book outlines the data-driven modelling of building energy performance to support retrofit decision-making.

A paradigm shift is happening at this moment.

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.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the F-EIR Conference 2021, Environment Concerns and its Remediation, held in Chandigarh, India, on October 18-22, 2021.

The laws of thermodynamics-and their implications for architecture-have not been fully integrated into architectural design.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.