Architectural structure and design

This book focuses on the relationship between buildings and our health and wellbeing, and by extension our quality of life.

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.

This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of virgin fossil plastics.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022).

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022).

The underlying principle of this book is the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which acts as a guide for developing empathic products and services.

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

This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.

A practical how-to guide on setting up an EVS program for a medical facility.

This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.

This book focuses on the relationship between buildings and our health and wellbeing, and by extension our quality of life.

This book explores the rise of technology-centered urban planning and the diffusion of these practices around the world.

Climate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action.

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.

This book investigates positive energy buildings (PEBs).

Don't trade your 40-hour workweek for an 80-hour a week side hustle.

This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity's endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future.

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

This book presents best selected research papers presented at Innovation in Sustainable Energy and Technology India (ISET 2020), organized by Energy Institute Bangalore (A unit of RGIPT, an Institute of National Importance), India, during 3-4 December 2020.

This book presents select proceedings of the international conference on Innovations in Clean Energy Technologies (ICET 2020) and examines a range of durable, energy efficient and next-generation smart green technologies for sustainable future by reflecting on the trends, advances and development taking place all across the globe.

Analytical Approaches for Reinforced Concrete presents mathematically-derived theories and equations for RC design and construction.

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Annual Conference on "e;Infrastructure and Built Environment: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies"e; (IBSR 2023).

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

Basics Interior Architecture 04: Elements/Objects explores the manner in which an interior space can be manipulated through the precise placement of forms.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments (VALUE 2020).

This book comprises select peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Development through Engineering Innovations (SDEI) 2020.

The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions to the complex challenges of physical and mental health, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering (SPICE 2019).

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

This proceedings volume contains select Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering related papers from the 2016 International Conference on Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering (GBMCE2016) which was held in Hong Kong, P.

***WINNER OF A NAUTILUS 2017 SILVER MEDAL BOOK AWARD***Adaptive Sensory Environments: An Introduction presents a cutting-edge methodology for adaptive sensory design by fostering an inter-disciplinary approach in which aspects of neuroscience, biophilia, captology, nanotechnology, kinetics, and sensemaking all play critical roles in helping adaptive architecture "e;tune"e; to occupants.

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look.

This book outlines the data-driven modelling of building energy performance to support retrofit decision-making.

This book includes the proceedings of the Sustaining Tomorrow 2020 symposium and summit which bring together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges and to forge solutions to sustain tomorrow.

This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools.

In der aktuellen Auflage bietet dieses Fachbuch für alle, die Fahrtreppen und Aufzüge planen, bauen oder betreiben, einen umfassenden Überblick zu allen wichtigen Fragen: angefangen bei den Normen und technischen Regeln bis hin zur Technikgeschichte.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability (CTCS 2020).

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD 2018).

This book is about the optimization of the characterization of the thermal properties of building envelopes, through experimental tests and the use of artificial intelligence.

The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice.

This book presents selected papers presented during the International Symposium on Earthen Structures held in IISc Bangalore.

This book describes different control strategies adapted to heat pumps, at the purpose of increasing energy flexibility in buildings.