Green Computing in Smart Cities: Simulation and Techniques

The book collects the latest research and thinking from international experts on green computing and the smart city. The financial and environmental costs of energy are a concern in smart cities due to the high usage of computing, technology, security, IoT, communications, traffic, and other technologies. This book tackles this problem with a focus on computing, reporting on various approach…

HANDBOOK OF UTILITIES AND SERVICES FOR BUILDINGS: PLANNING, DESIGN, AND INSTA…

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-

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0-07-026829-0

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x, p. bervariasi : ill. ; tab. ; 24 cm

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721 Har h

SPON`S CONTRACTORS` HANDBOOK: ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION, THIRD EDITION

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3rd

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0-419-16690-4

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p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

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621.319 Spo s

Hygrothermal Behaviour and Building Pathologies

This book presents recent research in the area of construction pathology, hygrothermal behaviour of buildings, service life and diagnostic techniques, and highlights the latest developments in building physics, hygrothermal behaviour, durability and numerical models applied to building materials analysis. Discussing the state of the art in the field, and covering topics relevant to variety of e…

Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings

Featuring research on topics such as low energy buildings' concepts, construction materials and technology, hybrid energy systems, energy balance, and wellbeing, this book meets the expectations of academicians, specialists and researchers in the field, along with the scholars seeking coverage on buildings, environmental and human impact. It presents an integrated approach to the buildings' ene…

Towards Energy Smart Homes

This book exemplifies how smart buildings have a crucial role to play for the future of energy. The book investigates what already exists in regards to technologies, approaches and solutions both with a scientific and technological point of view. The authors cover solutions for mirroring and tracing human activities, optimal strategies to configure home settings, and generating explanations and…

Addressing the Climate in Modern Age's Construction History

This book sheds light on environmental control in buildings from the 17th century onwards. Even before building services became a hallmark of buildings, in order to address increasing sanitary and comfort needs, pioneering experiences had contributed to improve design skills of professionals. After long being determined by passive features, indoor climate became influenced by installations and …

SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire

This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event. The Second Edition of SFPE's Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire provides a common introduction to this field for the broad fire sa…

Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.

Museum Technology and Architecture

This book describes two different museums using construction technology as the common language that brings architecture and engineering together. The first is the Museum of the Ibere Camargo Foundation at Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by Álvaro Siza and GOP, and the second is the Coach Museum at Lisbon in Portugal, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and AFAconsult. Both projects put special e…

Textbook of Seismic Design

This book focuses on the seismic design of Structures, Piping Systems and Components (SSC). It explains the basic mechanisms of earthquakes, generation of design basis ground motion, and fundamentals of structural dynamics; further, it delves into geotechnical aspects related to the earthquake design, analysis of multi degree-of-freedom systems, and seismic design of RC structures and steel str…

Office Buildings

This book brings together concepts from the building, environmental, behavioural and health sciences to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of office and workplace design. Today, with changes in the world of work and the relentless surge in technology, offices have emerged as the repositories of organizational symbolism, denoted by the spatial design of offices, physical settings and the…

Energy-efficient building design in Southeast Europe

The aim of this textbook is to improve conventional building design in Southeast Europe. This is done with proposing conceptual guidelines for designing energy-efficient buildings for different geographic regions of Serbia. The focus is on climate-appropriate design of building envelopes. To adress sustainability, economical, environmental and social aspects are evaluated. The body is divided i…

Simplified Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Buildings

This book presents a simple analytical method based on the extended rod theory that allows the earthquake resistance of high-rise buildings to be easily and accurately evaluated at the preliminary design stage. It also includes practical software for applying the extended rod theory to the dynamic analysis of actual buildings and structures. High-rise buildings in large cities, built on sof…

Seismic Structural Health Monitoring

This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM). Over the past few decades, Seismic SHM has expanded considerably, due to the growing demand among various stakeholders (owners, managers and engineering professionals) and researchers. The discipline has matur…

Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components

This book, Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components, provides a collection of recent contributions in the field of drying and wetting in porous building materials. The main benefit of the book is that it discusses some of the most important topics related to the drying and wetting processes, namely, innovations and trends in drying science and technology, drying mechanism and th…

Introduction to Architectural Science: The Basis of Sustainable Design

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-

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0-7506-58495

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xix, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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721 Szo i

BUILDING ADDITIONS DESIGN

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0-07-016761-3

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xv, 234 p.; 24 cm

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720 Dib b

The Elements of Modern Architecture Understanding Contemporary Buildings

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-500-34295-4

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360 p. ; 26 cm

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-

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725.21 Rod e

ARCHITECTURAL DETAILING FOR COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

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0-07-019983-3

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-

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725.21 028 Far a

informal

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-

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-

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400 p.; ill.; 23 cm.

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-

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720.28 Bal i

London Apartments

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-

ISBN/ISSN

3-8238-5558-1

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400 p.; ill.; 20 cm

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-

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728.3 Ase l

University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-415-57110-4

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vii, 257 p.; 24 cm.

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-

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727.3 Cou u

Conservation of Historic Buildings, THIRD EDITION

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3rd

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978-0-7506-5863-8

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408 p.; ill.; 29 cm.

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-

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363.69 Fei c

Offices DesignSource

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-06-074799-2

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647 p.; ill.; 23 cm.

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725.23 Off o

MUSEUM DESIGN : Architecture, Culture, Geographical Environment

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-988-16835-1-9

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320 p.; ill.; 30 cm.

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727.6 Gen m

ENERGY-EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE : BASICS FOR PLANNING AND CONTRUCTION

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224 p.; ill.; 29 cm.

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721 Gon e

UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1985 Edition

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-

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-

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690 Uni u

AIRPORT BUILDERS

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-98445-0

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223 p.; ill.; 24 cm.

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-

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725.39 Bin a

WALL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS BY DETAIL

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-054665-7

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xiii, 190 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

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-

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721.2 San w