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Biomimetics for Architecture & Design
Nature - Analogies - Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. As a result of a combined effort by two internationally recognized authorities, the biologist Werner Nachtigall and the architect Göran Pohl, the book describes the...
Environmental Health and Housing
Issues for Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
The book contains the papers developed from the presentations at the Distributed Intelligence in Design Symposium, held in Salford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligence refers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of different individuals in different organisations, with different...
by Bruce Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book does an exceptional job in giving an understanding of change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict as well as their linkages, including awareness of strategies, methods and techniques to handle them relative to resource and environmental management. The text enhances the reader's capacity to conduct practice and conduct research in resource and environmental management.
Delivering Value with BIM
A whole-of-life approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a global phenomenon which is gaining significant momentum across the world. Currently there is little information on how to realise and monitor benefits from implementing BIM across the life-cycle of a built environment asset. This book provides a practical...
Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings
Design and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
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...
The Whole Building Handbook
How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency,...
Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), 9-13 July 2018, Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018. This volume consists of a book of extended...
Failures and the Law
Structural Failure, Product Liability and Technical Insurance 5
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The interaction between engineering and the law is undergoing dramatic changes. Product liability, laws have been introduced in Japan, patent claims over living organisms have been made in bioengineering and the differing national laws of copyright protection and liability are in the process of harmonisation,...
Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes
Short and Long-term Management of Earthquake Risks and Damage Prevention in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015. Drawing on this disastrous event, it closely examines various aspects of earthquakes in contributions prepared by international experts. The topics covered include: the...
Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings...
Advances in Building Energy Research
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards. As stringently reviewed as a journal but with the breadth...
Designing Quiet Structures
A Sound Power Minimization Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
This book is the first of its kind. It provides the reader with a logical and highly quantitative means of including noise as a parameter in the early design stages of a machine or structure. The unique and unified methodology builds upon the familiar disciplines of acoustics, structural dynamics...
by Ganapathy Ramachandran, David Charters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a "Responsible Person" and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements...