Architectural structure and design

This book examines the indoor acoustic environment of China's care homes.

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing.

For many of us life has stopped making sense.

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.

Building information modeling (BIM) is rapidly replacing AutoCAD as the digital drawing tool of choice for architects and interior designers-and Revit (R) Architecture is the leading software package in the BIM marketplace.

"e;Focuses on taking students through each drawing they would have to do in a set of construction documents.

The Complete SketchUp Companion for Interior Design focuses on the skills and requirements necessary to design and explore interiors-from composing views to managing the structure of the model for tracking objects in schedules and keys.

AutoCAD continues to dominate the two-dimensional drafting marketplace for architects and interior designers.

3D Design Basics explores basic three-dimensional options for presenting design ideas, including models, paraline drawings, and perspective drawings.

Energy management training and solutions are not one size fits all.

This book focusses on a parallel approach that ensures successful acquisitions are strategic and cultural fits, which meet all synergy goals while at the same time optimizing and growing the current business.

Multi-use performing arts centers are among the most complex of all building types and require excellent and flexible acoustics in order to suit the facility's varied programming needs.

A guide for facility managers of varying types of facilities including, apartment buildings/complexes, office buildings, retail stores, educational facilities (schools), restaurants, and countless others.

Now in Its Fourth Edition: Your Guide to Successful Facility DesignOvercome design and planning problems using the fourth edition of Facilities Design.

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style.

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style.

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

This book offers the first, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting intracranial EEG studies, and analyzing intracranial EEG data.

Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability.

In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.

Providing a concise overview of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery energy storage systems (ESSs), this book also presents the full-scale fire testing of 100 kilowatt hour (kWh) Li-ion battery ESSs.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential principles and practices of project management.

There was the need to expand the eye centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi.

Urbanization and construction are primary drivers of land cover and land use change, climate change and environmental degradation.

Using the lens of nutrition security and equity for the living beings and living systems of the planet, Nutrition Security for Planetary Health takes an integrated, systems approach that not only delineates the antecedents of the multifaceted environmental crises-but offers solutions including the extensive co-benefits of whole plant foods nutrition as the foundational dietary pattern for improving planetary health.

The need to address global environmental problems is urgent.

Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share.

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The Phenomenon of Architecture in Cultures in Change focuses on the study of architectural design and its impact in the developing world.

Arches: Tables for Statistical Analyses presents a table used for simplifying the calculations of numerical determination of the magnitude of the internal forces in various cross-sections.

Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings.

A Practical Guide to Maintenance Engineering presents a critical review of the physical make-up of the equipment.

Artificial Intelligence in Design '91 is a collection of 47 papers from the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design held at Edinburgh in June 1991.

Churches and Chapels: A Design and Development Guide is a reference for structure approach to design, development, or alteration of a building.

Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures contains the proceeding of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design, held at Department of Architecture, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands on September 18-19, 1985.

Advances in Ready Mixed Concrete Technology contains the proceedings of the first International Conference on Ready-Mixed Concrete held at Dundee University in Scotland from September 29 to October 1, 1975.

Energy Conservation in the Design of Multi-Storey Buildings documents the papers presented at an International Symposium held at The University of Sydney, 1-3 June 1983, sponsored by The University of Sydney, the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the Institution of Engineers Australia.

Concrete Fit for People: A Practical Introduction to a Bio-functional Eco-architecture for the Third Millennium A.

The Potential of Earth-Sheltered and Underground Space: Today's Resource for Tomorrow's Space and Energy Viability contains the proceedings of the Underground Space Conference and Exposition held in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 8-10, 1981.

Computer Methods for Architects deals with the use of computers in the architecture profession.

The Building Envelope: Applications of New Technology Cladding provides an introduction to the state of the art in cladding systems.

How Designers Think: The Designing Process Demystified, Second Edition provides a comprehensive discussion of the psychology of the design process.

Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves.

Inside the Bauhaus presents the story of an idea about how people might live.

Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports.

This book covers the International Concrete Society Conference held at the Cardiff International Arena and will be of interest to architects and planners, facility managers and consultants in the fields of engineering, environmental control and services and leisure managemnet, media facilities and to client organizations planning major sports and '

Production of Portland cement is responsible for about seven percentof the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

The book examines crisis management for operations located outside of a corporation's normal confines, particularly in regions which might be overtly threatening or hostile to multinational corporations and their people and assets overseas.