Architectural structure and design

Materials for Architects and Builders provides a clear and concise introduction to the broad range of materials used within the construction industry and covers the essential details of their manufacture, key physical properties, specification and uses.

Interior designers use AutoCAD software for their drafting and rendering, but where do they learn to apply basic AutoCAD drafting standards and procedures to their specific needs?

Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects.

In diesem Buch erläutert Raimund Wurzel Schritt für Schritt, wie private Eigentümer ihre Immobilien erfolgreich veräußern.

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects is a practical guide for clients on how to initiate, procure and manage construction projects and developments.

Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century.

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments.

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.

Scale in cities is relative and absolute.

Die Autoren stellen die Ergebnisse des Projekts IER-SEK zusammenfassend vor.

The Tectonics of Structural Systems provides an architectural approach to the theory of structural systems.

Revised and Expanded Edition - Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design SoftwareFor the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners.

Double carbon targets have been one of the most motivations and targets for China's social and economic development.

Where there is data there are questions of ownership, leaks, and worries about misuse.

Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This one of a kind reference gathers numerous new studies examining the design of buildings in seaside locations.

Die Klimafrage gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung.

This book provides best practices for decarbonizing cities in East Asia, in which buildings are the major contributor to carbon emissions.

This book presents selected articles from the 4th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering 2020, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This book describes results of research conducted with the goal of providing a framework, selected tools, and guidelines to significantly reduce energy use (by more than 50%) in government and public buildings.

The book contains the latest studies on digitalization of transport and logistics, improving vehicle fuel efficiency, information technology and digital security, land management and cadastres, building structures, structural analysis, and energy conservation in construction.

This book highlights the importance of human behaviour in the building design process, with a focus on the construction of zero-energy buildings.

This edited book provides a solid foundation for future research on cooling cities, climate change impacts on cities and urban environments, and innovative mitigation and adaptation strategies.

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies.

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020.

This book comprehensively reviews the relationship between micronutrients and brain in health and diseases.

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures.

This book is the result of recent research that deals with the built environment and innovative materials, carried out by specialists working in universities and centers of research in different professional fields - architecture, engineering, physics - and in an area that that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

A bold reassessment of "e;smart cities"e; that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences.

Building Sustainability in East Asia: Policy, Design and People illustrates the holistic approaches and individual strategies to building sustainability that have been implemented in construction projects in Asia.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 4th International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on May 19-20, 2022.

American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better.

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious "e;design ability"e;.

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office.

Autonomous manufacturing and cyber-physical systems are key enabling technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4) which are currently being incorporated into the building design and construction industries.

Cordwood construction - log-ends set in insulated mortar - is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method.

This book offers a practical guide to embedding energy modelling in architectural practice.

The book presents the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2022), which took place in Krynica-Zdroj, Poland, 05-07 October 2022.

* Each title provides the architectural and design professional with a comprehensive reference of more than 1100 equations illustrated with both a large and small building example.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the F-EIR Conference 2021, Environment Concerns and its Remediation, held in Chandigarh, India, on October 18-22, 2021.

This book presents the proceedings of CRIOCM2018, 23rd International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, sharing the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe.

Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are two closely related and relatively new management disciplines with developing international professions and increasing academic attention.