Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things.

Die Wohnungswirtschaft hat eine immense Bedeutung für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft.

Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architectural practice and education.

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

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways.

Because the World Matters.

Special Structural Topics covers specialty structural situations for students and professional architects and engineers, such as soil mechanics, structural retrofit, structural integrity, cladding design, blast considerations, vibration, and structural sustainability.

This clear and accessible guide provides a comprehensive outline on how to convert your house into a more 'green' home.

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one.

Written from an 'in house' perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain's housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration.

Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction.

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn's ecological design philosophy.

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Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession.

This book comprises select and peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Construction Materials and Structures (ICON 2019).

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

Contrary to other developed economies, Australia has experienced a long-term deterioration in housing affordability even between housing price booms.

This edited book addresses a gap in literature by advancing current understandings of the applications of immersive technology within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector.

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

The second edition of this authoritative textbook equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering.

Community Real Estate Development: A History and How-To for Practitioners, Academics, and Students introduces the fundamentals of affordable housing to aspiring development professionals.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

This book provides a comprehensive theoretical platform for the use and construction of double skin facade projects.

The Industrial Ventilation Design Guidebook addresses the design of air technology systems for the control of contaminants in industrial workplaces such as factories and manufacturing plants.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges (ICSC 2019).

This book presents a collection of studies that have applied analytical methods to improve preparedness, planning, and a faster response to A&E and public health emergencies like epidemic and disease outbreak.

Dieses Fachbuch beschäftigt sich mit der Globalisierung industrieller Produktion und den daraus entstehenden neuen Aspekten bei der Standortplanung bezogen auf die Immobilienwirtschaft.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse.

The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier, while the mainstream has largely abandoned or neglected this agenda: in the UK the recent mandatory zero-carbon performance targets for new homes have been postponed or forgotten at a time when thousands of new homes will be built, and there is already a shortage of electric generating capacity.

Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles Written by an architect who is the director of sustainability at a global architecture firm, Net Zero Energy Design is a practical guide for architects and related construction professionals who want to design and build net zero energy commercial architecture.

With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches.

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This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable energy.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market.

Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond.

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to structural engineering and construction technology and management.

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

The Residential Leaseholders' Handbook explains in plain language everything leaseholders and their advisers need to know in relation to long residential leases.

A comprehensive resource for higher education professionals interested in sustainability pedagogy In The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful reference for higher education professionals seeking to embed sustainability in learning and teaching.