The "e;bricks and mortar"e; issues of facility management - HVAC, lighting, electrical, plumbing, space allocation, security and grounds maintenance - continue to be at the core the facility manager's role.
The importance of energy management has grown in recent years due to the heightened awareness of the impact of energy use on the environment and its very real impact on a company's bottom line.
This book helps you make good lighting decisions and will be a very useful hands-on tool for anyone involved with engineering, maintenance, purchasing, specification, retrofits, remodels, and new construction for interior or exterior lighting applications.
This book was written specifically for boiler plan operators and supervisors who want to learn how to lower plant operating costs, as well as how to operate plants of all types and sizes more wisely.
The book has been upgraded with ten new checklists with over 100 ways to improve performance with 50 additional illustrations to communicate specific information about applying these technologies.
With the widespread availability of high-speed, high-capacity microprocessors and microcomputers with high-speed communication ability, and sophisticated energy analytics software, the technology to support deployment of automated diagnostics is now available, and the opportunity to apply automated fault detection and diagnostics to every system and piece of equipment in a facility, as well as for whole buildings, is imminent.
With new chapters on electrical system optimization and ISO 50001, this edition also covers the latest updates to codes and standards in the energy industry.
This book provides a simple, easily followed process for auditing building operations to identify and reduce energy consumption that leads to measurable carbon reduction.
With the increased interest in climate impacts, sustainability, and efficiency, more responsibility is being placed on boiler operators to help improve performance and reduce emissions.
Recent Developments of Geopolymer Materials: Processing and Characterisations focuses on the development, processing, and characterization of sustainable and eco-friendly materials, highlighting recent research developments in this field.
La mayoría de los resultados de las investigaciones que se recogen en este libro son parte de un área relativamente nueva de investigación académica conocida como neurociencia educativa.
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.
La arquitectura como técnica (2) Este libro es fruto del curso de Construcción que el autor imparte desde 1989 en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, y constituye la segunda parte de una secuencia iniciada con un volumen dedicado a las "superficies".
Dirigido primordialmente a los estudiantes de arquitectura, ingeniería y construcción, el principal objetivo de este libro es estudiar y conocer cómo evolucionan las innovaciones en el campo de la construcción y en qué medida influyen en el proceso arquitectónico.
Este libro está dirigido específicamente a los arquitectos, a los estudiantes de arquitectura y a los promotores inmobiliarios, aunque puede ser de gran interés para un amplio espectro de lectores interesados en las energías renovables.
El libro avanza de una manera clara y ordenada a fin de familiarizar al arquitecto con la gran variedad de plásticos, con sus propiedades y con los principios esenciales de su fabricación y manufactura, lo cual es importante para su utilización en proyectos.
Marta Llorente lleva la mirada allí donde se desliza la luz "a partir de la experiencia de habitar el mundo, el paisaje, y en especial la arquitectura".
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.
El príncipe Carlos con la ayuda de sus dos principales colaboradores, Ian Skelly y Tony Juniper, comparte sus puntos de vista sobre cómo los desafíos modernos más apremiantes de la humanidad tienen sus raíces en nuestra falta de armonía con la naturaleza.
In an age of glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, today's media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal, untouched, and unused state.
Una obra dirigida a alumnos, profesores, investigadores y profesionales de arquitectura y urbanismo, así como a todo aquel interesado en profundizar en el arte de construir ciudades.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
