Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environment connects smart technology to a healthy built environmentthat builds upon the sustainable building movement.

This book presents a new approach to building renovation, combining aspects of various professional disciplines, integrating green building design, structural stability, and energy efficiency.

A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands.

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design considers the design, not only of artifacts, but of structures, systems, and interactions in the context of sustaining our shared planet.

This book delves into the transformative potential of neuromorphic computing within the realm of civil engineering, emphasizing its role in advancing smart infrastructure systems.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of forced displacements due to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and pandemics, which has favoured an increase in the number of temporary accommodations.

This book makes "e;green living,"e; as it relates to teens and young adults, an approachable subject.

Total productive maintenance (TPM), a Japanese management protocol developed to alleviate production losses caused by machine breakdowns has moved on.

The book presents the selected and peer reviewed papers of 2023 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2023), held in Bali Island, Indonesia on December 16-18, 2023.

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge.

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.

This book provides the theoretical background and the practical tools to assess the energy behaviour of different responsive envelope technologies in current and future climate scenarios.

This book introduces the reader to contemporary issues in the management of facilities in the African context and includes case studies from across the continent and internationally.

Strategic Maintenance Planning deals with the concepts, principles and techniques of preventive maintenance, and shows how the complexity of maintenance strategic planning can be resolved by a systematic 'Top-Down-Bottom-Up' approach.

Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency.

Significant loss to business occurs through fires in the workplace.

This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning several awards for his designs, is woefully little known.

This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.

This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.

Introduction to Security, Seventh Edition, presents the latest in security issues from security equipment and design theory to security management practice.

The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.

This book describes how comfort, energy and climate change in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population relate to buildings.

Master the Art of Human Resources: Your Guide to Thriving in Todays WorkplaceEmbark on an enlightening journey into the heart of the modern workplace with Breaking Down HR: The Basics You Need to Know.

This edited volume covers theoretical and practical aspects of circular economy in building development, offering chapters dealing with topics such as material design, affordability of housing development, waste management and recycling, smart metering, and more.

Managing Systems and Documentation addresses the main systems necessary for the successful operation of a maintenance organization, such as performance control, work control and documentation.

Managing Maintenance Resources shows how to reduce the complexity involved in engineering, or re-engineering, a maintenance organization.

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering sustainable and resilient human settlements in contexts that are very different to the Global North.

Modernists believed that "e;form follows function.

This book uses theories, hypotheses, policies, practical insights and case studies to introduce and elucidate green building materials for sustainable construction.

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

**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Most Promising New Textbook Award Winner**Green Building: An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Construction fills a void in green building which has good textbook options for practitioners, architects, and sustainability experts, but not an engineering focused textbook focused on green building.

Expert guidance on developing a green building service life planFilled with step-by-step instructions, Preparing a Building Service Life Plan for Green Buildings explains how to create a framework for managing the performance requirements and life-cycle impacts--including end-of-life--of major building elements for the duration of a green building s intended lifespan.

Facilities Management in Africa positions FM as a strategic enabler of performance, delivering energy efficiency, safety, and social value, while building the auditable evidence needed to access sustainable finance.

Facilities Management in Africa positions FM as a strategic enabler of performance, delivering energy efficiency, safety, and social value, while building the auditable evidence needed to access sustainable finance.

This book explores how design can be meaningfully integrated into governance and management practices to address complex societal challenges.

This book explores how design can be meaningfully integrated into governance and management practices to address complex societal challenges.

This book advocates for a fundamental shift in how we design and build architecture, placing construction knowledge at the core of the design process.

This book advocates for a fundamental shift in how we design and build architecture, placing construction knowledge at the core of the design process.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide for architects, urban planners, and developer on designing and retrofitting multi-family housing to meet the evolving needs of residents in a post-COVID world.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide for architects, urban planners, and developer on designing and retrofitting multi-family housing to meet the evolving needs of residents in a post-COVID world.