Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

The book covers practical applications and experimental results of integrating renewable energy technologies, energy storage facilities, and intelligent control and operation techniques into building energy systems.

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

This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs.

The challenges of affordable housing are manifold.

This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity's endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future.

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The design of a building can facilitate the process of use and promote the well-being of users if it meets their needs.

This book deals with sustainable affordable housing in developing countries, providing the main results of the BECOMe research project of the Politecnico di Milano.

The book presents the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative medicine facilities, as presented by architects and engineers at the International Scientific and Practical Conference Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure Solutions for Innovative Medicine Facilities, held in St.

This book presents contributions of intelligent management theories and models for a more effective management of sustainable business practices in competitive, profitable and socially responsible organizations.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable territorial development of the Arctic, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Arctic Territorial Development: Challenges & Solutions (ARCTD), held in St.

This book offers a unique treatment of building insulating products and the integration of these products with building components.

This book explore how exergy analysis can be an important tool for assessing the sustainability of buildings.

This book aims to provide bases for reasoning on what challenges urban-architectural design for vulnerable communities will face in the coming years.

This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan's award-winning "e;Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!

The book presents the proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2021), which took place online on October 6, 2021.

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.

This textbook provides practical and concrete guidance for the step-by-step implementation of decision-making for infrastructure asset management.

Best practices from around the world have proven that holistic Energy Master Planning can be the key to identifying cost-effective solutions for energy systems that depend on climate zone, density of energy users, and local resources.

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 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 focuses on holistic approaches of applying sustainable practices in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) regime.

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 1st Congress in Sustainability, Energy and City (CSECity'21) held in Ambato, Ecuador, on June 28-29, 2021, proudly organized by Universidad Tecnologica Indoamerica in collaboration with GDEON.

This book includes the proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021), which brings together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges, sharpen existing solutions, and formulate cutting-edge means to mitigate climate change.

This volume presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Clean and Sustainable Development (ICITCSD - 2021), held at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research and Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape.

This volume builds upon the 2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) from the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions.

This book presents research on energy poverty alleviation, approaching the complex phenomenon topic holistically and with heterogeneity.

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions.

This book provides a comprehensive exchange of information on current developments in the field of sustainable management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

This book reviews the building renovation process by systematizing the phases of analysis and prior knowledge through a project that not only considers energy savings but also thoroughly examines complex issues, such as defining the correct new functions and answers to new needs.

This book develops key messages for city stakeholders: how can cities and properties adapt to this crisis and how can public and private actors help to make cities more resilient in the long run.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.

This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change.

This book investigates positive energy buildings (PEBs).

This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities.

This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020.

This volume offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to artificial intelligence, machine learning and optimization tools, which contribute to the optimization of urban features towards forming smart, sustainable, and livable future cities.

This book systematically analyses state-of-the-art technology and research related to desiccant dehumidification.

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

The book presents a methodology for detecting intervention needs on existing healthcare buildings and estimating the related costs, to perform a sustainable financial planning for modernization, regulatory adjustment and performance upgrade.

This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation.

This book provides a comprehensive study on state-of-the-art developments in the control, operation, and market participation of active buildings (ABs).

Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is to foster ideas on how to reduce negative impacts on the environment while providing for the health and well-being of society.

This book constitutes the proceedings of this year's Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories International Conference (SSCt 2021), held in Doha, Qatar, from the 27th to the 29th of April 2021.

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.

The book encodes a vision for the actively sustainable management and development of the built environment by referring to the application of timber-based construction systems as additive solutions for the multi-purpose improvement of existing buildings.

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development.