Architectural structure and design

The role of the energy manager has evolved significantly as the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has become increasingly important.

Patricia Feigl zeigt, dass der neuartige Wettbewerbsdruck zwischen den Akteuren am Wohnimmobilienmarkt die Generierung und Sicherung von Vorteilen notwendig macht.

Recent advances in green technologies and sustainable development deals with cutting-edge research and innovative ideas in different categories of green technologies and operational aspects of sustainable development including renewable energy sources, power systems, mathematical ecol?

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

Fur Studenten ist die Architekturfotografie ein wichtiges Mittel, sich mit gebauter Architektur auseinanderzusetzen, oder auch eigene Projekte zu dokumentieren.

This book is a guide to a sustainable design process that moves from theory, to site and energy use, to building systems, and finally to evaluation and case studies, so you can integrate design and technology for effective sustainable building.

This is a book about the intersection of architecture and security, about effective crime prevention and counterterror using the built form.

Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever.

Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political instability, and poverty.

This book compiles state-of-the-art studies and real-world applications in ecosystems and smart environments.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 5th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2022, held on September 26-28, 2022, in Opole, Poland.

This book assesses the application of the calcium looping technology for CO2 capture from cement plants.

This is the fourth book in the Neural Network series.

This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments.

This key text addresses the topic of lightweight claddings in buildings and is a useful guide and reference resource.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 9th edition of the official triennial conference of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP), held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 25-27 July, 2024.

Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects.

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed the basis of the National Institute of Design.

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 provides insights to the lay person as well as the experts who are actively enabling these changes in the construction industry.

Cómo se proyecta una vivienda constituye un manual básico de todos aquellos problemas que atañen al proyecto de viviendas unifamiliares.

This book integrates of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) in the field of building design, construction, and maintenance.

Conservation is part of a brand new series providing must-read practical guidance to running efficient and successful projects using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013.

This book, a survey of current practices in both planning and computer aids, is largely confined to space projections, block and detailed layout planning, material flow analysis, plan and elevation drawings-the core activities of most facilities planners.

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.

This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition.

Based on careful analysis and experience in all housing sectors and house types, this handbook explains and demonstrates how to incorporate the most effective energy saving measures in the existing housing stock.

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century.

This book examines the Facilities Management (FM) of hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are among the most complex, costly and challenging kind of buildings to manage.

This book tackles the question of why the brain is so difficult to fully understand.

This book deals with the economics of construction at three levels: the industry, the firm and the project.

Demand from building control officials for structural calculations - even for very simple projects - means that today's architects must have a thorough understanding of everyday structural concepts.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety.

This second edition of Pragmatic Sustainability proposes a pragmatic, discursive and pluralistic approach to thinking about sustainability.

The energy used to operate buildings is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design strategies, and their relationship to an array of outputs.

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects.

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

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

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector.

New Trends in Eco-efficient and Recycled Concrete describes different recycled materials that have been used in eco-efficient concrete, reviewing previous publications to identify the most effective recycled materials to be applied in concrete manufacture.

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural worldI'm often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go.

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.

Die Immobilienbranche durchlebt einen Wandlungsprozess.

Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design.