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  • The Adaptive Home

    Supplementary Space Design for an Uncertain Future

    This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide for architects, urban planners, and developer on designing and retrofitting multi-family housing to meet the evolving needs of residents in a post-COVID world.Drawing on extensive research and case studies, it illustrates how the concept of "supplementary space" can be integrated into multi-family dwellings to enhance adaptability and resilience. The ... Read more

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  • Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings

    Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Tools

    Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK. The aim of this research is to assess the domestic energy use of statistically representative residential buildings and their occupants’ thermal comfort by considering the significant impact of overheating risks on energy ... Read more

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  • Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings

    Volume 2: Performance Evaluation and Retrofitting Strategies

    Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK. The aim of this research is to assess the domestic energy use of statistically representative residential buildings and their occupants’ thermal comfort by considering the significant impact of overheating risks on energy ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Retrofitting High Density Residential Buildings

    Policy Design and Implications on Domestic Energy Use in the Eastern Mediterranean Climate of Cyprus

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of public housing, using post-war social housing development estates in Cyprus as its example. On this Mediterranean island, which experiences hot and humid temperatures throughout the year, residential buildings need to adapt to the climate to improve the thermal comfort of their occupants. The book assesses the ... Read more

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  • Energy Policy Design in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin

    A Roadmap to Energy Efficiency

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
    This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the social housing sector in the Eastern Mediterranean basin.This book presents a novel methodological framework for the optimisation of post-war social housing developments in the Eastern Mediterranean climate. The authors draw on semi-structured interviews to present evidence on in situ thermal sensation and provide the results of walk ... Read more

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  • Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities

    Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.The aim of this book is to provide scholarly yet accessible graphic novel illustrations to inform narratives of urban manifestos. Through four select case studies from the UK, Cyprus and Germany, the book highlights the paradoxes and contradictions in ... Read more

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    The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today ... Read more

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  • System Dynamics

    Modelling and Simulation

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book covers the broad spectrum of system dynamics methodologies for the modelling and simulation of complex systems: systems thinking, causal diagrams, systems structure of stock and flow diagrams, parameter estimation and tests for confidence building in system dynamics models. It includes a comprehensive review of model validation and policy design and provides a practical presentation of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose. The way in which ... Read more

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    The starting point of the research is the need to refurbish existing residential building stock, in order to reduce its energy demand, which accounts for over one fourth of the energy consumption in the European Union. Refurbishment is a necessary step to reach the ambitious energy and decarbonisation targets for 2020 and 2050 that require an eventual reduction up to 90% in CO2 emissions. In this ... Read more

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  • Pro-environmental Behaviors

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a much-needed practical and conceptual guide for various pro-environmental behaviors. Written by an expert in both the environmental psychology and engineering fields, the book presents an overview of various pro-environmental behaviors (Chapter 1), the psychological background of behaviors (Chapters 2 and 3), how to survey and understand pro-environmental behaviors using ... Read more

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  • Goal and Scope Definition in Life Cycle Assessment

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    Series series LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment
    This book describes the importance of the goal and scope phase for the entire LCA study. In this first phase of the LCA framework (ISO standardized), the purpose of the assessment is defined and decisions are made about the details of the industrial system being studied and how the study will be conducted. Selecting impact categories, category indicators, characterization models, and peer review ... Read more

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