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  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort

    At the Extremes

    by Susan Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys ...
    To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors. This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is achieved in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort

    Edited by Fergus Nicol, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Susan Roaf ...
    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

    $62.99 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

    by Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf ...
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very little information ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

    by Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys, Susan Roaf ...
    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

    $67.99 USD

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    by Mohammad Taleghani ...
    Courtyards have been used for thousands of years in different climates in the world. In hot climates they provide shading, in humid climates they cause a stack effect helping ventilation, in cold climates they break cold winds and protect their microclimate. In temperate climates (such as of the Netherlands), the thermal behaviour of courtyards has been studied less. In this dissertation, low-rise ... Read more

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  • Advances in Passive Cooling

    Edited by Mat Santamouris ...
    Series series BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
    Following a rapid increase in the use of air conditioning in buildings of all types, the energy demand for powering such devices has become a significant cause for concern. Passive cooling is increasingly being thought of as the best alternative to air conditioning.This book offers the latest knowledge and techniques on passive cooling, enabling building professionals to understand the state of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

    Edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Alessio Fini ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

    Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

    by Ali Sayigh ...
    This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Designing High-Density Cities

    For Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by Edward Ng ...
    Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Designing Buildings for People

    Sustainable liveable architecture

    by Derek Clements-Croome ...
    Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve in practice. The vital collaboration between the many people involved in designing and producing buildings is often not achieved. Then there is the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Healthy Homes

    Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing

    by Nick Baker, Koen Steemers ...
    It is widely acknowledged that there is an urgent need to transform our housing stock to a better energy performance level. However, improving energy performance should not result in a negative impact on the health, wellbeing and the comfort of building occupants. There are many energy-neutral features that can be incorporated at small or zero cost which have a positive effect on wellbeing. This ... Read more

    $52.95 USD

  • Bio-based Building Skin

    by Anna Sandak, Jakub Sandak, Marcin Brzezicki, Andreja Kutnar ...
    Series series Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
    This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a state-of-the-art review, addresses the latest trends in material selection, assembling systems, and innovative functions of facades in detail. Selected case studies on buildings ... Read more

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