Architectural structure and design

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice lifts the curtain to unveil how eleven world-leading design studios integrate technology (such as computational design, BIM, and digital fabrication) as part of their day-to-day design exploration and delivery.

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

The second edition of this authoritative textbook equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering.

Community Real Estate Development: A History and How-To for Practitioners, Academics, and Students introduces the fundamentals of affordable housing to aspiring development professionals.

The second edition of this highly informative book retains much original material covering the principles of structural mechanics and the strength of materials, together with the underlying concepts requisite to the theory of structure and structural design.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

This book provides a comprehensive theoretical platform for the use and construction of double skin facade projects.

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment.

The Industrial Ventilation Design Guidebook addresses the design of air technology systems for the control of contaminants in industrial workplaces such as factories and manufacturing plants.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges (ICSC 2019).

Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development.

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects "e;The series is welcome .

This book presents a collection of studies that have applied analytical methods to improve preparedness, planning, and a faster response to A&E and public health emergencies like epidemic and disease outbreak.

The only comprehensive SketchUp guide written for builders and contractors SketchUp is a 3D modeling application used in areas ranging from civil and mechanical engineering to motion picture and video game design.

Dieses Fachbuch beschäftigt sich mit der Globalisierung industrieller Produktion und den daraus entstehenden neuen Aspekten bei der Standortplanung bezogen auf die Immobilienwirtschaft.

Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world and is the fundamental physical medium for most of the world's architecture and construction.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

Drawing The Motive Force of Architecture Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic.

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse.

The argument for low-cost, zero-energy, zero-waste architecture has never been timelier, while the mainstream has largely abandoned or neglected this agenda: in the UK the recent mandatory zero-carbon performance targets for new homes have been postponed or forgotten at a time when thousands of new homes will be built, and there is already a shortage of electric generating capacity.

Conveniently organized and packed with robust technical content and clear explanations of key principles Written by an architect who is the director of sustainability at a global architecture firm, Net Zero Energy Design is a practical guide for architects and related construction professionals who want to design and build net zero energy commercial architecture.

This is a compilation of the full year's information, including: the "e;Discussion"e; section, where well-known architects and critics as well as specialist authors and architectural historians articulate their views; the "e;Documentation"e; section containing an analysis of selected projects, in which buildings from around the world are covered in depth; and the "e;Technology"e; section where the specific theme of each issue of the magazine is treated in greater depth.

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years?

With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches.

A comprehensive guide to the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures Focused on the design process for architects and related professionals, this book addresses the design and execution of sophisticated exterior building enclosures for a number of commercial building types and in a variety of building materials.

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This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

This book covers different aspects of energy sustainability in residential buildings and neighborhoods, starting from the construction and design aspects, and moving on to HVAC systems and lighting, and the applications, harvesting, use and storage of renewable energy.

This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions.

Der Glasbau ist eines der innovativsten und abwechslungsreichsten Gebiete der Baukonstruktion.

This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market.

Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond.

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to structural engineering and construction technology and management.

This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the Conference on Automation Innovation in Construction (CIAC-2019).

The Residential Leaseholders' Handbook explains in plain language everything leaseholders and their advisers need to know in relation to long residential leases.

A comprehensive resource for higher education professionals interested in sustainability pedagogy In The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful reference for higher education professionals seeking to embed sustainability in learning and teaching.

Built Environment and Property Management - A Focus on China and Hong Kong is a unique collection of previously published articles that represent the very highest level of scholarship in the field.

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL GLASS FACADES FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, AND BUILDERS Once an experimental building form, structural glass facades have matured into a fully robust technology.

Taxonomy is the common name for an EU regulation that supports companies in sustainable environmental and climate action (Regulation [EU] No.

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.

This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably.

Cantilever Architecture shows you how to integrate cantilever designs into your building from conception, to help you create support-free structures without the need for columns or walls, whether for balconies, stairs, to occupy the air rights of the lot next door, or to build super tall buildings.