Architecture

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book!

This book discusses building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) and provides solutions for solving problems related to designing, sizing and monitoring a BIPV that has been used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights or facades.

This book highlights the importance of human behaviour in the building design process, with a focus on the construction of zero-energy buildings.

This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture.

Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals.

This book discusses the impact of information and communication technologies, particularly social media, on the structure and landscape of contemporary cities.

This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions.

This book provides a complete analysis of the logistic market, with a special focus on performance and risk characteristics, demand and supply, and diversification strategy.

This one of a kind reference gathers numerous new studies examining the design of buildings in seaside locations.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment.

This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration.

This book addresses the main challenges in implementing the concepts that aim to replace the regular fossil-fuels based energy pattern with the novel energy pattern relying on renewable energy.

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

Due diligence is the bedrock of real estate deals, regardless of the volume of transaction.

This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods for building occupant behavior.

This volume introduces the notion of 'relational planning' through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice.

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

Offering readers essential insights into the relationship between ancient buildings, their original and current indoor microclimates, this book details how the (generally) virtuous relationship between buildings and their typical microclimate changed due to the introduction of new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in historic buildings.

The book reveals how green buildings are currently being adapted and applied in developing countries.

This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives.

This short book provides an update on various methods for incorporating phase changing materials (PCMs) into building structures.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years.

This textbook provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the application of basic principles and concepts for physical and engineering acoustics.

This graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook systematically addresses all core topics in physical and engineering acoustics.

The "e;active image"e; refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "e;actions"e; that images perform.

This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context.

This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional.

This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting current interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching as well as research and practice in architecture and urbanism.

This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment-where so many people spend so much of their day-to improve workers' capacity for health and wellness.

This book connects the different topics and professions involved in information technology approaches to architectural design, ranging from computer-aided design, building information modeling and programming to simulation, digital representation, augmented and virtual reality, digital fabrication and physical computation.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline.

This book contains contributions from an international scientific conference, "e;Smart Nations: Global Trends In The Digital Economy"e;, which was organized by the State University of Management (Moscow).

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This book captures the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Transformation in the Context of Global Change (GREEN 2024), organized by the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book clarifies the interrelationship between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular.

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

This book considers the potential of new, smart materials and their use in architecture.

This essential book unravels the link between regional cultures, adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sustainability.

This book takes a bold epistemological approach to address the fundamental questions that urban design has faced since its inception - questions concerning its legitimacy, definition, nature, content, purpose, theory, methods, jurisdiction and above all its knowledge base.

In this book, experts discuss how German real estate values have remained stable throughout the financial crisis, even though transaction volumes have been very volatile since 2005.

For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42.

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

The Brief discuss primarily two aspects of air flow management in raised floor data centers.

This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans - a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve.

This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them.