Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

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.

Umfangreicher Ratgeber über die Rechte und Pflichten bei WohnungseigentumIn Deutschland gibt es über 10 Millionen Wohnungseigentümer, die entweder selbst ihre Eigentumswohnung bewohnen oder diese Wohnung vermieten.

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place.

This book contains selected papers from the 22nd World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2023) in Kuala Lumpur.

In order to satisfy the needs of their customers, network utilities require specially developed maintenance management capabilities.

This book explores the history and evolution of city centers and provides practical guidance for designing successful city centers, emphasizing the importance of urban design guidelines in achieving this goal.

Das Werk ist das Ergebnis der Erforschung unterschiedlicher Wege des Experimentierens mit Biologie und Architektur auf dem neuen Feld der "e;lebenden Architektur"e;.

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design.

This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world.

Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole.

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.

The International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together global experts to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place.

This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of virgin fossil plastics.

Après les « Trente Glorieuses », symbole de l’apogée des cadres, « Trente Financières » avec leur cortège de bouleversements managériaux : renforcement des procédures de contrôle, développement des organigrammes plats, priorité donnée au client et à la « réactivité », etc.

In light of environmental challenges architecture is facing, wood is no longer regarded as outmoded, nostalgic, and rooted in the past, but increasingly recognized as one of the most promising building materials for the future.

Despite the volumes of information they contain, few libraries, whose population at any given moment is as unpredictable as the weather, know how to prepare for, endure, and survive a disaster, whether natural or man-made, and even fewer put their know-how to paper.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations.

Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and construction materials and components.

The sixth edition of The Construction of Houses builds on the success of the previous five editions.

This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities.

Climate change is a reality that cannot now be disputed and solutions exist, whether technological or societal.

Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials - how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.

We are in a climate emergency.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

Discover sustainable methods for designing crucial building systems for architects.

The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide, which primes those involved in the design and research of tall buildings to dramatically improve their performance.

The Earth's temperature has been rising.

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns.

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located.

The book consists of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM 2024).

Computing the Environment presents practical workflows and guidance for designers to get feedback on their design using digital design tools on environmental performance.

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

Climate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action.

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture.

Interpreting Site explains the basic methods architects use to translate what you perceive to represent the complex conditions that physically and mentally "e;construe"e; a site, helping to shape the ultimate design.

The GDF and GCF are two factors invented and designed by German Architect and Developer Florian Betzler.

Wohnen auf Zeit liegt im Trend.

Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely.

This book introduces and develops the novel concept of Lean Construction 4.

This book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the socio-economic benefits that could result from successfully delivering it.

Managing physical assets is a cooperative and cross-functional discipline that demands a solid governance structure, strong leadership, and well-coordinated policies and practices to meet organizational objectives and requirements in the context of their operations.

The call for transformation in critical aspects of the operations of the global construction industry is ever more critical.

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.