This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.
The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design.
This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open Building around the world.
Diese Publikation aus der Reihe „Studien zum nachhaltigen Bauen und Wirtschaften” untersucht Umnutzungen denkmalgeschützter Sakralbauten zu profanen Zwecken in Deutschland und welche Chancen und Herausforderungen sich dabei ergeben.
STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST UPDATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE WITH THE LEADING VISUAL REFERENCE In the newly revised Seventh Edition of Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2021 International Building Code , architectural drawing expert Francis D.
Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024.
The agribusiness supply chain includes a number of processes such as supply management, production management, and demand management to customers through a competitive distribution channel.
In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.
Grafikdesigner, die mit Druckveredelungen wie Blindpragung oder Nachleuchtfarbe arbeiten mochten, stehen immer wieder vor dem gleichen Problem: Es gibt keine aussagekraftigen Beispiele fur die zur Verfugung stehenden Techniken.
Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um eine Sammlung erweiterter Fassungen von Vorträgen, die auf dem internationalen KES-Gipfel Covid-19 Herausforderung gehalten wurden.
This book illustrates the potential of nature when it comes to rethinking the role of the building envelope, which is responsible for energy flows between the internal and external environment, in the era of climate change.
Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.
Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society.
THE UPDATED DEFINITIVE REFERENCE ON MEDICAL AND DENTAL OFFICE DESIGN Medical and Dental Space Planning is an indispensable guide to the myriad of details that make a medical or dental practice efficient and productive.
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.
This book includes papers on intelligent expert systems and sustainability applications in the areas of data science, image processing, wireless communication, risk assessment, healthcare, intelligent social network mining, and energy.
This book showcases the latest trends and innovations in the field of Green Building, covering topics from research and design to innovative practices and challenges.
Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities.
'A truly awe-inspiring piece of writing' David Robson, author of The Intelligence TrapIn recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence have given us the necessary tools to solve its mystery.
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.
The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin's discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories.
Preeminent designer Barry Dixon approaches each project with the design philosophy that the greatest quality ahome might possess is that of innate, soulful hospitality.
This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.
Strategic Security will help security managers, and those aspiring to the position, to think strategically about their job, the culture of their workplace, and the nature of security planning and implementation.
This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.
This book argues for the value of the material prototype as a critical site of design innovation, through a series of design and architectural case studies.
Die Digitalisierung im Facility und Immobilienmanagement ist die aktuelle Herausforderung auf dem Weg zur durchgängigen Vernetzung und Automatisierung der Gebäude und Anlagen sowie der Prozesse von Nutzern, Betreibern und Eigentümern.
