Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters.

A disruption in your call center operation can conceivably cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This book presents the new approach of resource-driven bamboo construction (RDBC), developing a clear assessment framework and operational solution to improve the value of resources and the sustainability of bamboo constructions.

This is the first book to describe the development of and state of the art in solar shading devices in buildings, detailing all methods of evaluating shading systems according to thermal and visual comfort.

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.

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways.

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

Throughout the world, there is an increasing interest in ecological design of buildings, and natural ventilation has proved to be the most efficient low-energy cooling technique.

Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings aims to provide a guide to members of design and masterplanning teams on how to deliver sustainable development and buildings cost effectively, meeting current and emerging UK and international statutory and planning requirements.

This book presents selected papers presented during the International Symposium on Earthen Structures held in IISc Bangalore.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.

This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Smart Cities (ICESC2022), previously known as the International Conference on Civil, Offshore and Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE).

This book provides a pragmatic roadmap for mastering project delivery in civil and infrastructure engineering—one that applies across both developing and industrialized nations.

The need to address global environmental problems is urgent.

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

Energy Rating is a crucial consideration in modern building design, affirmed by the new EC Directive on the energy performance of buildings.

The tenth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building, wiring and water regulations, new technology and new legislation.

This research examines the evaluation criteria for logistics real estate and explores the implementation of future trends from an investor's perspective, with a specific focus on European logistics real estate as an asset class.

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering and water resources management.

With a foreword from Paul King, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council and Chairman, Zero Carbon HubAs concerns over climate change and resource constraints grow, many cities across the world are trying to achieve a low carbon transition.

Ice-Houses: Energy, Architecture and Sustainability presents new and novel technologies and approaches surrounding daily and seasonal ice storage, along with discussions on passive cooling and natural technologies using different methods, including heat pumps.

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.

The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design.

This book deals with the management and valuation of energy storage in electric power grids, highlighting the interest of storage systems in grid applications and developing management methodologies based on artificial intelligence tools.

Communicating Sustainability is a book of evidence-based strategies for making sustainability vivid, accessible, and comprehensible.

This book, Sustainable Urban Evolution, delves into the transformative potential of the 15-minute city concept, an innovative urban planning model crafted to address pressing issues like urban sprawl, environmental sustainability, resilience, and the demand for livable cities.

Photovoltaic systems (PVs) produce electricity directly from solar radiation and are becoming more widespread as their advantages become apparent.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 7th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS 2024) held on April 4-5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

As more factors, perspectives, and metrics are incorporated into the planning and building process, the roles of engineers and designers are increasingly being fused together.

The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being.

Zur Steuerung von Fremdkapitalkosten ist ein Marktverständnis der Kreditwirtschaft unabdingbar.

In einer sich ständig wandelnden Geschäftswelt ist effizientes Prozessmanagement der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

Updated to account for ISO 55000,Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2022), held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2022.

Global material crises are imminent.

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healthy.

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

This book is about the currently evolving global standardization of corporate workplace models and the challenges this poses for their implementation in a local context.

Skyrocketing energy costs and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources are making homeowners and businesses look at different ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their own electricity to reduce fuel bills and their carbon footprint.

Many governments worldwide are setting more stringent targets for reductions in energy use in government/public buildings.

The book has been upgraded with ten new checklists with over 100 ways to improve performance with 50 additional illustrations to communicate specific information about applying these technologies.

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This book provides insights to the lay person as well as the experts who are actively enabling these changes in the construction industry.

The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2) program review; (3) design review; (4) post-construction evaluation/review; (5) post-occupancy evaluation; and, (6) facilities management review/adaptive reuse.

Vacant possession is an element of property law that ensures a property is left in good condition when it changes hands.

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.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.