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“george baird”

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  • The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems

    by George Baird ...
    The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems examines the way project teams can approach the design and expression of both active and passive environmental control systems in a more creative way. Using seminal case studies from around the world and interviews with the architects and environmental engineers involved, the book illustrates innovative responses to client, site and ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • Sustainable Buildings in Practice

    What the Users Think

    by George Baird ...
    Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users’ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants’ needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Energy Performance Buildings

    by George Baird, Michael R. Donn, Frank Pool, William D. S. Brander, Chan Seong Aun ...
    This book deals with the concerns of everyone involved with the use of energy in buildings. It is written principle for those with a direct professional interest in the energy performance of buildings. ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

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  • Living Architecture

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  • Civil Engineering

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    Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization ... Read more

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  • European Landscape Architecture

    Best Practice in Detailing

    Edited by Ian Thompson, Torben Dam, Jens Balsby Nielsen ...
    Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book offers a more profound understanding of decision making through all stages of the design process.The book ... Read more

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  • Town and Terraced Housing

    For Affordability and Sustainability

    by Avi Friedman ...
    Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient affordable living.Townhouses have been used for hundreds of years, and their evolution is ... Read more

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  • Science and the City

    The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

    by Laurie Winkless ...
    Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that ... Read more

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  • Concrete Toronto

    A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies

    by Michael McClelland, Graeme Stewart ...
    Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete structures have been increasingly ignored - and in ... Read more

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  • The Zero-Carbon House

    by Martin Godrey Cook ...
    Zero Carbon' is an abstract concept for most people, but we have lived energy-profligate lifestyles for too long on finite fossil-fuel resources. We now face potential environmental catastrophe from climate change and global warming, with a continuing exponentially expanding global population that doubles every four decades. The capacity of the planet to reabsorb carbon dioxide is about two to ... Read more

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  • Supertall

    How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

    by Stefan Al ...
    **"A thoughtful inquiry into the new generations of skyscrapers…There is a lot of rich history here, well and concisely told." ?Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book ReviewThe global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made, and what they do to cities and people.**We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the “supertall”: megastructures that are ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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