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  • Thermal Comfort and Energy-Efficient Cooling of Nonresidential Buildings

    by Jens Pfafferott, Doreen E. Kalz ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book supports HVAC planners in reducing the cooling energy demand, improving the indoor environment and designing more cost-effective building concepts. High performance buildings have shown that it is possible to go clearly beyond the energy requirements of existing legislation and obtaining good thermal comfort. However, there is still a strong uncertainty in day-to-day practice due to the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Lifetime Environmental Impact of Buildings

    by Hassan Ait Haddou, Marc Méquignon ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This work discusses the impact of the life of buildings on sustainable development methods. The study of the lifespan of the building is used to assess and manage the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life, from raw material extraction through to repair, maintenance and 'end of life' scenarios. While several papers have discussed thegreenhouse gas emissions of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Contemporary Slovenian Timber Architecture for Sustainability

    by Manja Kitek Kuzman, Andreja Kutnar ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book presents Slovenia’s contemporary timber architecture. Thanks to its abundant forests, Slovenia has preserved the tradition of wood construction. As much as 60% of its surface is covered by forests. Slovenia is also the third most forested country in Europe. The high share of forest-covered surface allows for a sustainable production of high-quality wood. In the past, wood was used ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • PCM-Enhanced Building Components

    An Application of Phase Change Materials in Building Envelopes and Internal Structures

    by Jan Kośny ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Presenting an overview of the use of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) within buildings, this book discusses the performance of PCM-enhanced building envelopes. It reviews the most common PCMs suitable for building applications, and discusses PCM encapsulation and packaging methods. In addition to this, it examines a range of PCM-enhanced building products in the process of development as well as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Trimming, Miniaturization and Ideality via Convolution Technique of TRIZ

    A Guide to Lean and High-level Inventive Design

    by Saurabh Kwatra, Yuri Salamatov ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book is a valuable research tool-kit for innovators, amateur & professionals alike. Additionally, College & University faculties on Engineering, who organize yearly workshops internationally will find hundreds of novel themes to choose from. Some teachers might just secretly buy this book to introduce out-of-box brain-teasers in classroom to add fizz to normal (at times boring) lecturing.The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2015

    Smart Systems for Green and Automated Driving

    Edited by Tim Schulze, Beate Müller, Gereon Meyer ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This edited volume presents the proceedings of the AMAA 2015 conference, Berlin, Germany. The topical focus of the 2015 conference lies on smart systems for green and automated driving. The automobile of the future has to respond to two major trends, the electrification of the drivetrain, and the automation of the transportation system. These trends will not only lead to greener and safer driving ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Revitalization in Multan City

    A Multidisciplinary Italian–Pakistani Project

    Edited by Adalberto Del Bo, Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book describes six months of initial intensive activities within a motivating multidisciplinary project to achieve sustainable social, economic, and environmental revitalization in the historic core of Multan City, Pakistan. The project is managed by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano within the framework of the "Pakistan-Italian Debt for Development Swap Agreement” and has five components: a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rail Vehicle Dynamics

    by Klaus Knothe, Sebastian Stichel ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book on the dynamics of rail vehicles is developed from the manuscripts for a class with the same name at TU Berlin. It is directed mainly to master students with pre-knowledge in mathematics and mechanics and engineers that want to learn more. The important phenomena of the running behaviour of rail vehicles are derived and explained. Also recent research results and experience from the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Designing a Place Called Home

    Reordering the Suburbs

    by James Wentling ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This insightful volume shares design ideas to help builders, planners and architects create mass-produced affordable housing that pushes suburban development in more sustainable, liveable directions. The author argues that improving the quality of design in our new homes and communities for greater resiliency, sustainability, and equality, we can build neighborhoods and communities where residents ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Methodologies for Service Life Prediction of Buildings

    With a Focus on Façade Claddings

    by Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Pedro Lima Gaspar ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Presenting an analysis of different approaches for predicting the service life of buildings, this monograph discusses various statistical tools and mathematical models, some of which have rarely been applied to the field. It explores methods including deterministic, factorial, stochastic and computational models and applies these to façade claddings. The models allow (i) identification of patterns ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Essentials of Urban Design

    by Mark Sheppard ...
    Essentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design outcomes. It is equally useful for designing places and evaluating designs. Each chapter outlines the key steps in designing or assessing a different type of development. All common types of urban development are addressed, from infill buildings to ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Thermal Comfort Assessment of Buildings

    by Salvatore Carlucci ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed in scientific literature over the last decades. They aim at describing human thermal perception of the thermal environment to which an individual or a group of people is exposed. More recently, a new type of “discomfort index” has been proposed for describing, in a synthetic way, long-term phenomena. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD