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“prasad vaidya”

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  • Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building

    by Marian Keeler, Prasad Vaidya ...
    The Fully Updated, Indispensible Study of Sustainable Design PrinciplesFundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building is the first textbook to merge principles, theory, and practice into an integrated workflow. This book introduces the technologies and processes of sustainable design and shows how to incorporate sustainable concepts at every design stage. This comprehensive primer ... Read more

    $85.00 USD

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    by Jobe Leonard ...
    A how to book for those interested in building a Conventional Home . When you are ready to look at the most important aspects of a project, this is the book for you. I discuss budget, needs, and design. Using the included exercises and worksheets you move through the process. Then I guide you step by step through estimation, design, and ultimately the construction process. This literature is a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

    by Traci Rose Rider ...
    Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Passive House Details

    Solutions for High-Performance Design

    by Donald Corner, Jan Fillinger, Alison Kwok ...
    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer, moisture ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Eco-Home Design Guide

    Principles and practice for new-build and retrofit

    by Christopher Day ...
    Series series Sustainable Building
    The key principles of designing a pleasant, comfortable and healthy eco-home, with a foreword written by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.Designing an eco-home is much more about working with your house's location and situation than relying on intrusive technology and hi-tech materials. With the soaring energy bills and the climate crisis, it is now more important than ever to invest ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Integrating Building Performance with Design

    An Architecture Student’s Guidebook

    by Elizabeth J. Grant ...
    Integrating Building Performance with Design shows you the importance of designing for building performance early in your architectural design process. The book offers you simple tools and exercises, along with examples of built professional work and successful student projects illustrated by more than 100 full color images to help you with your work. Topics include site, solar orientation, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Directions in Person-Environment Research and Practice (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Jack Nasar, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research. Leading researchers in various areas of person-environment research, such as privacy, children’s environment, post-occupancy evaluation, environmental cognition, environmental aesthetics, crime prevention, housing ... Read more

    $54.99 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

  • Tropical Sustainable Architecture

    Edited by Joo Hwa Bay, Boon Lay Ong ...
    The tropical belt – where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located – forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural environment. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Me and the Biospheres

    A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

    by John Allen ...
    An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time.Contained ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Lighting Design

    A Perception-Based Approach

    by Christopher Cuttle ...
    By reading this book, you will develop the skills to perceive a space and its contents in light, and be able to devise a layout of luminaires that will provide that lit appearance.Written by renowned lighting expert Christopher (Kit) Cuttle, the book:explains the difference between vision and perception, which is the distinction between providing lighting to make things visible, and providing it ... Read more

    $91.99 USD