Architectural structure and design

With a foreword from Paul King, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council and Chairman, Zero Carbon HubAs concerns over climate change and resource constraints grow, many cities across the world are trying to achieve a low carbon transition.

Ice-Houses: Energy, Architecture and Sustainability presents new and novel technologies and approaches surrounding daily and seasonal ice storage, along with discussions on passive cooling and natural technologies using different methods, including heat pumps.

Best practices from around the world have proven that holistic Energy Master Planning can be the key to identifying cost-effective solutions for energy systems that depend on climate zone, density of energy users, and local resources.

The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply evidence-based and human-centric design principles to office and workplace design.

Es bien sabido que la arquitectura de una ciudad constituye una de las manifestaciones que tiene más posibilidades de permanencia.

This book deals with the management and valuation of energy storage in electric power grids, highlighting the interest of storage systems in grid applications and developing management methodologies based on artificial intelligence tools.

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

Communicating Sustainability is a book of evidence-based strategies for making sustainability vivid, accessible, and comprehensible.

This book, Sustainable Urban Evolution, delves into the transformative potential of the 15-minute city concept, an innovative urban planning model crafted to address pressing issues like urban sprawl, environmental sustainability, resilience, and the demand for livable cities.

The Architecture of Full-Scale Mock-Ups looks at the theory and contemporary practice of creating full-scale architectural mock-ups.

Photovoltaic systems (PVs) produce electricity directly from solar radiation and are becoming more widespread as their advantages become apparent.

Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm, humid tropics of Asia and Latin America.

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

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 7th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS 2024) held on April 4-5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

A guide for leveraging SketchUp for any project size, type, or style.

As more factors, perspectives, and metrics are incorporated into the planning and building process, the roles of engineers and designers are increasingly being fused together.

The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being.

Zur Steuerung von Fremdkapitalkosten ist ein Marktverständnis der Kreditwirtschaft unabdingbar.

Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually.

In einer sich ständig wandelnden Geschäftswelt ist effizientes Prozessmanagement der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

Updated to account for ISO 55000,Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, Third Edition, now includes an overview of this seminal and long-awaited standard and identifies the specific points where ISO 55000 will impact maintenance and reliability.

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic.

Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2022), held in Montreal, Canada, in July 2022.

Global material crises are imminent.

This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address.

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healthy.

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

This book is about the currently evolving global standardization of corporate workplace models and the challenges this poses for their implementation in a local context.

Skyrocketing energy costs and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources are making homeowners and businesses look at different ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their own electricity to reduce fuel bills and their carbon footprint.

This new edition of Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering explores how to effectively develop creative collaborations among architects and engineers.

Many governments worldwide are setting more stringent targets for reductions in energy use in government/public buildings.

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.

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Great guide to the fundamentals of Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 This Autodesk Official Press guide is just what you need to learn the basics of Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 quickly and easily.

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

In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments.

The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle: (1) strategic planning/needs analysis; (2) program review; (3) design review; (4) post-construction evaluation/review; (5) post-occupancy evaluation; and, (6) facilities management review/adaptive reuse.

The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture's pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture.

Vacant possession is an element of property law that ensures a property is left in good condition when it changes hands.

The book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method "e;beyond"e; the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative.

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.

Das Buch liefert eine detaillierte Darstellung von Design-Prozessen: Anhand von 25 Making of-Beitragen"e; aus den unterschiedlichsten Branchen deckt es die Schwerpunkte Mobel-Design, Transportation Design und Haushaltsgerate ab.