Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

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

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.

The book demonstrates how new houses can be designed to be more sustainable and ergonomic.

The challenges of affordable housing are manifold.

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This book addresses physical, chemical, and biological methods for the preservation of ancient artifacts.

This textbook teaches the fundamentals of building energy modeling and analysis using open source example applications built with the US DOE's OpenStudio modeling platform and EnergyPlus simulation engine.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent and advanced research findings on energy production and management in the important Ural industrial region of Russia.

This book describes the development of a system dynamics-based model that can capture the future trajectories of housing energy and carbon emissions.

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership.

This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments.

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book!

This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades.

This book highlights the importance of human behaviour in the building design process, with a focus on the construction of zero-energy buildings.

Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals.

This book provides a complete analysis of the logistic market, with a special focus on performance and risk characteristics, demand and supply, and diversification strategy.

This one of a kind reference gathers numerous new studies examining the design of buildings in seaside locations.

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

This book addresses the main challenges in implementing the concepts that aim to replace the regular fossil-fuels based energy pattern with the novel energy pattern relying on renewable energy.

Due diligence is the bedrock of real estate deals, regardless of the volume of transaction.

This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods for building occupant behavior.

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

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

This short book provides an update on various methods for incorporating phase changing materials (PCMs) into building structures.

The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years.

This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional.

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline.

This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

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 proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

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.

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

In this book, experts discuss how German real estate values have remained stable throughout the financial crisis, even though transaction volumes have been very volatile since 2005.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42.

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects.

The Brief discuss primarily two aspects of air flow management in raised floor data centers.

This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans - a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve.

This book describes the latest methods and tools for the management of information within facility management services and explains how it is possible to collect, organize, and use information over the life cycle of a building in order to optimize the integration of these services and improve the efficiency of processes.

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

This book covers the main aspects of regional and urban economics and presents state-of-the-art theories in a comprehensive and concise way.

This book provides an overview of the field of flow and heat transfer in porous medium and focuses on presentation of a generalized approach to predict drag and convective heat transfer within porous medium of arbitrary microscopic geometry, including reticulated foams and packed beds.

This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals' overall sustainability.

The book assembles the latest research on new design techniques in water supplies using desalinated seawater.

Maximizing reader insights into a new movement toward leadership approaches that are collaborated and shared, and which views Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and performance excellence within the wider examination of leadership relationships and practices, this book argues that these relationships and processes are so central to the establishment of OSH functioning that studying them warrants a broad, cross-disciplinary, multiple method analysis.

This book describes in full the major approaches used to evaluate investment in real estate and shows how theory informs decision-aid methods and tools to support such evaluation.

This critical volume provides practical insights on sulfuric acid and related plant design and on techniques to improve and enhance substantially the efficiency of an existing plant by means of small modifications.

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification, and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline.

This book highlights progress towards the capture, storage, and utilization of energy through the development of advanced materials and systems based on abundant elements, materials, and commodities.

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.