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Engineering (R0) Serie de eBooks

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  • The Future of Thermal Comfort in an Energy- Constrained World

    de Tim Law ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The dissertation investigates the scientific and business factors that have resulted in air-conditioning being a major contributor to climate-change. With his architectural background, the author demonstrates how a design methodology, not commonly adopted in scientific studies, may actually be a suitable way of dealing with a complex problem: the 'business as usual' scenario involving building ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

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  • Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030

    Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficient Buildings

    de Giuliana Iannaccone, Marco Imperadori, Gabriele Masera ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book aims to provide a basis for design and construction of resource-efficient buildings. The main concepts follow the vision of a European Sustainable Building as defined in the 2-years Smart-ECO research project funded by European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program. The focus is concentrated on innovations enabling the building sector to meet the requirements originating from the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Risk City

    Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World

    de Yosef Jabareen ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Passive Energy Strategies for Mediterranean Residential Buildings

    Facing the Challenges of Climate Change and Vulnerable Populations

    de Aurora Monge-Barrio, Ana Sánchez-Ostiz Gutiérrez ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents an approach to energy-efficient building design, which takes into account the most important challenges in climate change mitigation and adaptation in Southern Europe. It outlines a specific approach related to residential buildings and their intergenerational and vulnerable occupants, such as ageing population and users in fuel poverty. It also focuses on the use of passive ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Embodied Carbon in Buildings

    Measurement, Management, and Mitigation

    Edición de Francesco Pomponi, Catherine De Wolf, Alice Moncaster ...
    This book provides a single-source reference for whole life embodied impacts of buildings. The comprehensive and persuasive text, written by over 50 invited experts from across the world, offers an indispensable resource both to newcomers and to established practitioners in the field. Ultimately it provides a persuasive argument as to why embodied impacts are an essential aspect of sustainable ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design

    Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS)

    Edición de Mohammad Dastbaz, Chris Gorse ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on the impacts of the built environment, and how to predict and measure the benefits and consequences of changes taking place to address sustainability in the development and building industries. It draws together the best treatments of these subjects from the Leeds Sustainability Institute’s inaugural International Conference on Sustainability, Ecology, Engineering, Design for ... Leer más

    $242.99 USD

  • Diffusion Dynamics of Energy-Efficient Renovations

    Causalities and Policy Recommendations

    de Matthias otto Müller ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    ThAccelerating the diffusion of energy-efficient renovations is a key policy lever in order to reduce the environmental impact of buildings. This book provides a broad, systemic perspective on the causes of the diffusion of energy-efficient renovations in Switzerland and policy recommendations for accelerating the diffusion process. Specifically, the book provides a description of the societal ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Lime Hemp and Rice Husk-Based Concretes for Building Envelopes

    de Eric Garcia-Diaz, Laurent Clerc, Morgan Chabannes, Frédéric Becquart, Jean-Charles Bénézet ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides the tools to understand the issues related to bio-based concretes using lime as binder.Themes covered include specific properties of lignocellulosic aggregates (density, porosity, size distribution, water absorption, microstructure, soluble components under alkaline conditions), hardening of lime-based binders by carbonation and hydration (natural and curing processes) and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Nearly Zero Energy Building Refurbishment

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edición de Fernando Pacheco Torgal, Marina Mistretta, Claes G. Granqvist, Luisa F. Cabeza, Artūras Kaklauskas ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 19 May 2010. For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be “nearly zero energy” (and even sooner for public buildings – by the end of 2018). This book gives practitioner an important tool to tackle the challenges ... Leer más

    $188.09 USD

  • Sustainability and Evidence-Based Design in the Healthcare Estate

    de Bing Chen, Michael Phiri ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This work aims to deepen our understanding of the role played by technical guidelines and tools for the design, construction and operation of healthcare facilities, ultimately establishing the impact of the physical environment on staff and patient outcomes. Using case studies largely drawn from the UK, Europe, China and Australasia, design approaches such as sustainability (e.g. targets for ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Carbon Dioxide Mineralization and Utilization

    de Pen-Chi Chiang, Shu-Yuan Pan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CO2 mineralization and utilization demonstrated in the waste-to-resource supply chain can “reduce carbon dependency, promote resource and energy efficiency, and lessen environmental quality degradation,” thereby reducing environmental risks and increasing economic benefits ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings

    Design and Strategy

    de Guedi Capeluto, Carlos Ernesto Ochoa ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of building envelopes.Readers will find essential information on the core principles involved in designing, calculating and organizing intelligent ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD