Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

A comprehensive understanding of the potential dangers inherent in warehousing chemicals is the first step in managing the associated risks.

Written and edited by engineering contractors and industry project/maintenance managers as an easy-to-use guide for other industry professionals, this book identifies important process safety issues in the contractor-client relationship,which are not addressed by other groups and publications.

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.

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.

Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions.

Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundreds of choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make from ingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements to time-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation of wetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions.

This primer for architects explores the basic physical principles and requirements of every aspect of passive and active controls in buildings.

This primer for architects explores the basic physical principles and requirements of every aspect of passive and active controls in buildings.

Let Barb Schwarz the creator of the Home Staging concept show you what it takes to make it in the Home Staging industry.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture.

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

Due to climate change and urbanization, urban climate change is increasingly prominent with significantly environmental, economic, social, and health consequences.

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input while maintaining high agronomic yields.

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input while maintaining high agronomic yields.

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design.

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design.

Emotions in the workplace have until recently been seen simply as a distraction.

Emotions in the workplace have until recently been seen simply as a distraction.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments.

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments.

Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H.

Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H.

The notion of ecodesign has now clearly become part of the building sector.

The notion of ecodesign has now clearly become part of the building sector.

Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction.

Sustainable Advanced Solar Passive House provides a platform to disseminate knowledge regarding the basics of solar energy, heat transfer, and solar houses, including designing concepts.

Sustainable Advanced Solar Passive House provides a platform to disseminate knowledge regarding the basics of solar energy, heat transfer, and solar houses, including designing concepts.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

Heavy metals and metalloids, singly or in combination, induce toxic manifestations either through acute or chronic pathology.

Heavy metals and metalloids, singly or in combination, induce toxic manifestations either through acute or chronic pathology.

This book focuses on next-generation smart windows which can change their optical-physical properties by reflecting and/or transmitting incoming light radiation to attain comfortable indoor temperatures throughout the year.

This book focuses on next-generation smart windows which can change their optical-physical properties by reflecting and/or transmitting incoming light radiation to attain comfortable indoor temperatures throughout the year.

Modern biotechnologies give us unprecedented control of the fundamental building blocks of life.

Modern biotechnologies give us unprecedented control of the fundamental building blocks of life.

This book holds a distinguished promise of an intellectual understanding and complete account of that shifts in laying out resilient planning, development, and policy landscapes for the cities to come.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable.

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.