Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

A Practical Guide to Maintenance Engineering presents a critical review of the physical make-up of the equipment.

Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations.

Aujourd’hui, en tant que salarié(e), vous êtes amené(e) de plus en plus à vous adapter à toutes sortes de situations : changements, surcharge de travail, gestion de l’urgence, incertitude… • Comment faire pour prendre du recul afin de tout mener à bien et rester opérationnel ?

This book brings together the papers presented at the Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference, 2018 (SASBE).

Dieses Buch vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis für die Märkte der Kreditwirtschaft, das zur Steuerung von Fremdkapitalkosten unabdingbar ist.

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels.

This best-selling handbook is the most comprehensive and practical reference available on energy auditing in buildings and industry.

Crowdfunding is nothing new.

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places.

Following his succesful How to Pass the APC: Essential Advice for General Practice Surveyors, Austen Imber's latest publication examines surveyors' work in practice.

Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systematising the various ideas which come under the banner of sustainable construction and provides a model for the design, operation and ultimate disposal of buildings.

Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency.

Bei vielen Fragen rund um nachhaltige Profitabilität- und Produktivitätssteigerungen der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft unterstützt dieses Werk die Leser*innen, durch Einsatz digitaler Tools und Innovationen, die Dynamik der gesamten Prozesse deutlich zu verbessern.

People across the world are becoming more aware of the need for the buildings and cities they live and work in to be sustainable, but the issue of how to be sustainable can seem a confusing and complex one.

Arguing that a gulf exists between design and construction, between conceptual thinking and the constructed building, this book explores projects and practices that span the gap by thinking through materials and processes with what Howeler calls a tectonic imagination.

Designing Sustainable Residential and Commercial Interiors: Applying Concepts and Practices is a core text that teaches students and designers how to apply sustainable principles to all stages of the design process for residential and commercial interiors.

Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

Overheating in buildings is commonplace.

Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical.

This text provides an overview of the interdisciplinary nature of facilities management.

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Software programs are increasingly being used to manage and control plant and equipment maintenance in modern manufacturing and service industries.

Basics Landscape Architecture 02: Ecological Design provides an overview of ecological design and planning for landscape architects.

This proceedings book focuses on innovation, cooperation, and sustainable development in the fields of construction management and real estate.

Building Cities to LAST presents the myriad issues of sustainable urbanism in a clear and concise system, and supports holistic thinking about sustainable development in urban environments by providing four broad measures of urban sustainability that differ radically from other, less long-lived patterns: these are Lifecycle, Aesthetics, Scale, and Technology (LAST).

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM 2022 (27th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate), sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.

Who will lead your organization into the future?

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

For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in.

How does one tell the story of energy production, use, or conservation in a manner sufficiently convincing to influence policy, behavior, and design?

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world.

Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge, of Channel 4's Escape to the Chateau, and his son James.

Health management is one of the megatrends of our time.

Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including high rises.

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective.

This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood.

This key handbook provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products, and complements the Green Building Handbook Vol 1.

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.

The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and AgroParisTech) and the VINCI group, aims to create measurement and simulation tools which integrate all the dimensions of eco-design (greenhouse gas emissions, impact on biodiversity and resource levies, etc.

Personnel Protection: Executive Worksite Security is a video presentation.

Decision-making is critical.

For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in.

2000 years ago the roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education.

Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors.

The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus -by means of direct aids- and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions.

The original, complete, user-friendly introduction to natural building, now fully revised and updated The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and environmentally responsible.

Facade staining is a centuries-old building defect that is globally widespread.