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Professionalism in the Built Heritage Sector Edited Contributions to the International Conference on Professionalism in the Built Heritage S

Professionalism in the Built Heritage Sector Edited Contributions to the International Conference on Professionalism in the Built Heritage S

Professionalism entails the conduct aims and qualities that characterise a profession. The term is also used to describe education and training standards for the knowledge and skills necessary to perform a specific profession. In practice professional standards of practice and ethics are agreed upon and maintained by recognised associations. In the past professionalism has not occupied a central place in built heritage discussions policy and research. Recent changes in terms of public attitudes and sustainability concerns have had a cumulative impact on the requirements for professionalism in the built heritage sector. The future success of the sector will depend on the availability of adequate professionals and an appropriately skilled workforce. In practice the built heritage sector involves much more than interventions to conserve preserve rehabilitate or restore a heritage structure. Bringing a project to fruition begins with the formulation of a policy proceeds to the design and execution of intervention strategies and ends with ongoing maintenance of heritage structures and related future programming. This process requires sufficient interactions between different professionals to obtain a common vision and hold that vision throughout a project. At the same time the sustainability of the sector is also defined by effective governance societal support and cultural rationales. Professionalism in the Built Heritage Sector contains reports on the lectures of the international conference organized by the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (Leuven Belgium February 5th-8th 2018). The contributions in this volume meet the increasing demand for shared information to support the transition towards a more sustainable conservation process. The volume consists of three main parts that deal with practice-led research or scientific research: Profiles and capacities Education training and quality labels and Obstacles and changes. | Professionalism in the Built Heritage Sector Edited Contributions to the International Conference on Professionalism in the Built Heritage S

GBP 105.00
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SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power

SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power

Power electronics can be a difficult course for students to understand and for professors to teach. Simplifying the process for both SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power Third Edition illustrates methods of integrating industry standard SPICE software for design verification and as a theoretical laboratory bench. Helpful PSpice Software and Program Files Available for Download Based on the author Muhammad H. Rashid’s considerable experience merging design content and SPICE into a power electronics course this vastly improved and updated edition focuses on helping readers integrate the SPICE simulator with a minimum amount of time and effort. Giving users a better understanding of the operation of a power electronics circuit the author explores the transient behavior of current and voltage waveforms for each and every circuit element at every stage. The book also includes examples of all types of power converters as well as circuits with linear and nonlinear inductors. New in this edition: Student learning outcomes (SLOs) listed at the start of each chapter Changes to run on OrCAD version 9. 2 Added VPRINT1 and IPRINT1 commands and examples Notes that identify important concepts Examples illustrating EVALUE GVALUE ETABLE GTABLE ELAPLACE GLAPLACE EFREQ and GFREQ Mathematical relations for expected outcomes where appropriate The Fourier series of the output voltages for rectifiers and inverters PSpice simulations of DC link inverters and AC voltage controllers with PWM control This book demonstrates techniques of executing power conversions and ensuring the quality of the output waveforms rather than the accurate modeling of power semiconductor devices. This approach benefits students enabling them to compare classroom results obtained with simple switch models of devices. In addition a new chapter covers multi-level converters. Assuming no prior knowledge of SPICE or PSpice simulation the text provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to draw a schematic of a circuit execute simulations and view or plot the output results. It also includes suggestions for laboratory experiments and design problems that can be used for student homework assignments.

GBP 74.99
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Spice Bioactive Compounds Properties Applications and Health Benefits

Spice Bioactive Compounds Properties Applications and Health Benefits

Nature offers us spices which are a significant part of healthy and nutritious foods. The presence of abundant bioactive compounds in these spices makes them interesting from a scientific and health perspective. Extracts obtained from spice materials possess many health benefits and are rich sources of antioxidants which suppress reactive oxygen species. Spice Bioactive Compounds: Properties Applications and Health Benefits collects such information together in one book presenting all necessary features related to spices and their properties. Exploring the most recent research related to the extraction isolation encapsulation identification and characterization of bioactive compounds present in spices this book also covers the health element of spices and its utilization as a treatment for various disorders. Key Features: Discusses about 14 different spices and their salient features Presents the novel technologies used in the extraction isolation and identification of bioactive compounds from spices Explores the utilization of spices for culinary use in food Industries such as the food and pharmaceutical industries have great interest in the use of bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods. Written by experts in their field this book will be useful to anyone in either industry as well as those who have an interest in the use of such bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods. | Spice Bioactive Compounds Properties Applications and Health Benefits

GBP 155.00
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Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Diagnosis and Management Volume 3: Ornamental Plants and Spice Crops

Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Diagnosis and Management Volume 3: Ornamental Plants and Spice Crops

This third volume of the 4-volume set focuses on the diseases prevalent in ornamental plants and spice crops. The management of any disease successfully involves its detailed study regarding symptoms causal agent disease cycle and epidemiology. To address this the authors in this volume all nationally known scientists in their respective fields who are engaged in teaching research and extension services have contributed their experience and knowledge on recent developments in the field of plant diseases. Focusing on ornamental plants (such as carnations chrysanthemums [or crown daisies] dahlias gladioli marigolds roses zinnias) and spice crops (such as black pepper coriander ginger turmeric and others) the authors offer detailed accounts of the main diseases affecting these plants. Included are introductions to the plants disease symptoms causal organisms disease cycles epidemiology and management of the diseases of these economically important crops. The volumes provide an abundance of information for understanding and managing plant diseases with emphasis on diagnostic techniques. The collection includes:Volume 1: Fruit CropsVolume 2: Vegetable CropsVolume 3: Ornamental Plants and Spice CropsVolume 4: Important Plantation Crops Medicinal Crops and Mushrooms | Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Diagnosis and Management Volume 3: Ornamental Plants and Spice Crops

GBP 139.00
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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers project managers academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects the book addresses some key themes challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking organisational and individual identity storytelling and narration. The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as ‘innovation’ and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today. | Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

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Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. The need for life cycle assessment to inform environmental design within the built environment is critical due to the complex range of materials and processes required to construct and manage our buildings and infrastructure systems. After outlining the framework for life cycle assessment this book uses a range of case studies to demonstrate the innovative input-output-based hybrid approach for compiling a life cycle inventory. This approach enables a comprehensive analysis of a broad range of resource requirements and environmental outputs so that the potential environmental impacts of a building or infrastructure system can be ascertained. These case studies cover a range of elements that are part of the built environment including a residential building a commercial office building and a wind turbine as well as individual building components such as a residential-scale photovoltaic system. Comprehensively introducing and demonstrating the uses and benefits of life cycle assessment for built environment projects this book will show you how to assess the environmental performance of your clients’ projects to compare design options across their entire life and to identify opportunities for improving environmental performance. | Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment

GBP 44.99
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Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways. This unrivalled edited collection of chapters analyses problems and presents possible solutions related to the employment and conditions of workers in the construction industry. It provides comprehensive coverage of the relationship between the global workforce and the built environment and is divided into four topical areas: how labour and the built environment relate to development; employment generation in the built environment; quality of employment in the built environment; and the impact of the built environment on labour in other sectors. Underpinning the entire book is the premise that the way the built environment is produced and its main products – buildings cities and towns – have an impact on large numbers of workers. At the same time the quality of the built environment requires construction workers who are well trained and with good working conditions. While cities and towns are the engines of economic growth they will not be able to fulfil their economic potential if poverty in the workforce is not addressed. Those who are unemployed underemployed or work in unfavourable conditions cannot fully contribute to production and at the same time are limited in their ability to purchase goods and services – therefore limiting economic growth and restricting improvements in their living standards. In addition investments in infrastructure housing and inner-city redevelopment cannot be sustainable if labour issues – i. e. poverty – are not addressed. This book aims at analysing this complex set of issues comprehensively and will be essential reading to a wide range of researchers across the interdisciplinary intersections of construction business and management economic development urban studies sociology political science and project management. | Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements The Built Environment at Work

GBP 160.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment including buildings urban areas and cities and construction materials and components. Split into five distinct sections international experts researchers and professionals present the recent developments in the field of embodied carbon from various perspectives and at different scales of material building and city. Following an introduction to the embodied carbon question the chapters in Section 1 then cover the key debates around issues such as the politics of embodied carbon links between embodied carbon and thermal mass and the misuse of carbon offsets. Section 2 reviews the embodied carbon policies in a selected number of countries. Sections 3 4 and 5 approach the topic of embodied carbon from urban- building- and material-scale perspectives respectively and use case studies to demonstrate estimation techniques and present opportunities and challenges in embodied carbon mitigation. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers in Architecture Urban Planning Engineering and Construction disciplines. Presenting case studies of embodied carbon assessment this book will also help practicing architects engineers and urban planners understand embodied carbon estimation techniques and different mitigation strategies. | The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

GBP 205.00
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Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack

Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack

Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack takes the reader step by step through the process of developing synthesizer modules beginning with the elementary and leading up to more engaging examples. Using the intuitive VCV Rack and its open-source C++ API this book will guide even the most inexperienced reader to master efficient DSP coding to create oscillators filters and complex modules. Examining practical topics related to releasing plugins and managing complex graphical user interaction with an intuitive study of signal processing theory specifically tailored for sound synthesis and virtual analog this book covers everything from theory to practice. With exercises and example patches in each chapter the reader will build a library of synthesizer modules that they can modify and expand. Supplemented by a companion website this book is recommended reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of audio engineering music technology computer science electronics and related courses; audio coding and do-it-yourself enthusiasts; and professionals looking for a quick guide to VCV Rack. VCV Rack is a free and open-source software available online.

GBP 35.99
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Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially. However with no dedicated mixed methods research design textbook in this domain students have struggled to conduct research projects involving a mixed methods research design. Mixed Methods Research Design for the Built Environment provides a useful research methodology resource for students academics and researchers across various disciplines in the built environment such as construction management and project management property and real estate management quantity surveying and commercial management building surveying building services engineering civil and geodetic engineering and other built environment disciplines. The book can also be useful for students and academics outside the built environment knowledge domain. This textbook offers practical and step-by-step guidance on how to apply mixed methods research design including an elucidation of the various philosophical and methodological underpinnings upon which the choice of a particular variant of the mixed methods research design is predicated. It provides practical case examples and guidance on the processes involved to design and undertake mixed methods research the advantages and disadvantages of using mixed methods research and how multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative data can be combined and applied to carry out research projects.

GBP 42.99
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Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture? This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed built used and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances including Internet of Things (IoT) 3D printing innovative materials and robotics Smart Buildings also outlines the opportunities for architecture including improved communication flexibility wellbeing productivity and data collection. Bringing together multidisciplinary contributions and case studies from across the globe this book provides an inspiring practical guide on how technology can inspire new architectural ideas improving quality comfort health and wellbeing in the built environment | Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

GBP 45.00
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Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

Winner of the 2020 IDEC award Homelessness and the Built Environment provides a practical introduction to the effective physical design of homes and other facilities that assist unhoused persons in countries identified as middle- to high-income. It considers the supportive role that design can play for unhoused persons and other users and argues that the built environment is an equal partner alongside other therapies and programs for ending a person’s state of homelessness. By exploring issues trends and the unique potential of built environments this book moves the needle of what is possible to assist people experiencing trauma. Examining important architectural and interior architectural design considerations in detail within emergency shelters transitional shelters permanent supportive housing day centers and multi-service complexes such as space planning choices circulation and wayfinding visibility lighting and materials and finishes it provides readers with both curated conclusions from empirical knowledge and experienced designers’ perspectives. Homelessness and the Built Environment is an imperative and singular reference for interior designers architects and building renovation sponsors design researchers and students forging new discoveries and policy makers who seek to assist communities affected by homelessness. | Homelessness and the Built Environment Designing for Unhoused Persons

GBP 31.99
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Soundscape and the Built Environment

Soundscape and the Built Environment

Soundscape Basics and Practical Implications Soundscape research represents a paradigm shift as it involves human and social sciences and physical measurements to account for the diversity of soundscapes across countries and cultures. Moreover it treats environmental sounds as a resource rather than a waste. Soundscape and the Built Environment is the first book to systematically discuss soundscape in the built environment. It begins with a presentation of theory and basic background answering questions such as: what is soundscape how is it important and how does it affect people in terms of their health and perception on the acoustic environment. The book then sets out tools for implementing a soundscape approach with measurement techniques mapping and good soundscape practices. It also delivers a series of examples of the application of the soundscape approach in planning design and assessment. Discusses soundscape and environmental noise Explores cultural variations and the way they influence soundscape Introduces binaural measurement technology and psychoacoustics Examines the physical psychological and physiological restorative mechanism of high-quality acoustic environments Presents soundscape mapping based on human perception of sound sources Includes real-world examples and case studies highlighting the key issues in soundscape intervention Soundscape and the Built Environment is written by a group of leading international figures and derives from a four-year EU COST project on Soundscapes of European Cities and Landscapes. It presents a consensus on the current state of the art and is not merely a collection of different views. It is written for acoustic consultants urban planners designers and policy makers as well as for graduate students and researchers.

GBP 69.99
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i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

The conference presented a multidisciplinary interactive forum to researchers students academicians industry professionals policymakers and scientists focusing on three key tracks namely Architecture and Built Environment Planning and Practices and Design and Society. Presenters shared experiences research results and scholarly contributions and discussed the practical challenges encountered and solutions to be adopted. The selected contributions are enclosed within the proceedings. | i-Converge: Changing Dimensions of the Built Environment Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Dimensions of the Built Env

GBP 38.99
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Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers ‘see’ subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to analyze designs before they are built this new edition brings readers up-to-date on scientific tools relevant for assessing architecture and the human experience of the built environment. The new edition includes: Over 100 full color photographs and drawings to illustrate key concepts. A new chapter on using biometrics to understand the human experience of place. A conclusion describing how the book’s propositions reframe the history of modern architecture. A compelling read for students professionals and the general public Cognitive Architecture takes an inside-out approach to design arguing that the more we understand human behavior the better we can design and plan for it. | Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

GBP 39.99
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Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth. In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development. This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same. The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques. It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden. In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth-altering cataclysmic disaster. The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design. | Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

GBP 39.99
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Flood Hazards Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment

Flood Hazards Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment

A 360-degree view of the response to flood risk As major flooding events around the world show the impact of flooding on the built environment can cause widespread chaos. These flood events form part of a wider pattern of increasing flood frequency coupled with increased vulnerability of the built environment to flood hazard. Flood risk can unite or divide communities and the responses to potential risk can range from denial to perfect adaptation. Drawing on the experience of communities and experts Flood Hazards: Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment offers guidance on managing urban flooding and flood risk. It brings together a diversity of viewpoints and experiences on flood impacts and responses from leading academics flood restoration specialists emergency responders architects planning consultants insurers policymakers and community representatives. By including the perspective of the community and the views of households and businesses at risk this volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on flood management. The chapter organization loosely corresponds to the phases of the disaster management cycle covering emergency preparation and response; recovery repair and reconstruction; and mitigation and adaptation. Contributors examine the types of impacts and discuss forecasting and emergency warning. They describe processes and good practice in recovery of flood-damaged property from the perspectives of the insurance industry restorers and loss adjusters. The book also deals with business continuity land-use planning property-level and infrastructure protection and urban drainage looking at the regulation and design of the built environment as one way to reduce risk. A section on community response to flooding sheds light on the experiences of flood-affected families. Written for students practitioners and researchers in flood risk management as well as for professionals who may encounter flood-related issues in the course of their work this cross-disciplinary book makes a valuable contribution towards designing a future built environment that is more resilient to flood risk. | Flood Hazards Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment

GBP 69.99
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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region. As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic the future trajectories for living environments city-making processes and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners positioning the Arctic as a dynamic diverse and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban architecture and landscape systems and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic. This is a unique resource for researchers creative practitioners policymakers and community decision-makers as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

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Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on the authors’ wide range of experience to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement. It considers the ways that we interact with our environments presenting a comprehensive account of how people negotiate and use the urban landscape. Set within current debates concerning urban futures societal issues sustainable cities health and well-being the book explores our innate need for contact with the natural world through biophilic design thinking to expand our knowledge base and promote a wider understanding of the importance of these interactions on our collective well-being. It responds to questions such as what are the urban qualities that support our well-being? As an urbanised society what are the environmental determinants that promote healthy and satisfying lifestyles? Beginning with an overview of concepts relating to biophilia and environmental engagement it moves through current theory and practice different pathways and their characteristics before presenting real world examples and applications through illustrated case studies in different world situations. With a particular focus on the experience of individuals the book is essential reading for students researchers and practitioners of architecture landscape architecture urban planning design and health sciences interested in the future of our cities and the importance of green spaces. | Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Practice in the Built Environment

GBP 34.99
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Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear concise easy-to-read format. This book takes the reader deep into the foundations of sustainable design and creates a holistic and integrative approach addressing the social cultural ecological and aesthetic aspects in addition to the typical performance-driven goals. The first section of the book is themed around the origins principles and frameworks of sustainable design aimed at inspiring a deeper broader and more inclusive view of sustainability. The second section examines strategies such as biophilia and biomimicry adaptation and resilience health and well-being. The third section examines the application of sustainability principles from the global urban district building and human scale illustrating how a systems thinking approach allows sustainable design to span the context of time space and varied perspectives. This textbook is intended to inspire a new vision for the future that unites human activity with natural processes to form a regenerative coevolutionary model for sustainable design. By allowing the reader an insightful look into the history motivations and values of sustainable design they begin to see sustainable design not only as a way to deliver green buildings but as a comprehensive and transformative meta-framework that is so needed in every sector of society. Supported by online resources including additional reading for each chapter and classroom assignments this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.

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Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students is a step-by-step guide to get students through their final year research project. Trusted and developed over three previous editions the new fourth edition shows you how to select a dissertation topic write a proposal conduct a literature review select the research approach gather the data analyse and present the information and ultimately produce a well-written dissertation. The book simplifies dissertation research and writing into a process involving a sequence of learnable activities and divides the process into three parts. Part One covers the necessary groundwork including: identifying the problem writing a proposal and reviewing the literature. Part Two covers the research design and includes: approaches and techniques for data collection and constructing and sampling a questionnaire. Part Three covers: measurement of data analysis of data with SPSS structuring and writing the whole dissertation and supervision and assessment. This new edition is packed with updated examples and research samples making this the ideal resource for students involved in research in built environment subjects such as construction management construction project management facilities management real estate building surveying quantity surveying and civil engineering.

GBP 36.99
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Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving planning designing funding constructing occupying and managing the built environment to face the challenges and grasp the opportunities that lie ahead over the next few decades. Four major themes form the basis of the volume: (1) Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place. (2) Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership. (3) Innovation Reform and Exemplars. (4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations. Within these structural themes are a diverse range of 'Discourses' addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today – whether by organisations individuals cities or communities – to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reading for students practitioners agencies and corporations across the built environment especially in the fields of urban planning real estate development architecture civil engineering and construction. | Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations for the Future A Built Environment Bricolage

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A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

A Philosophy of Landscape Construction outlines a philosophy of values in landscape construction demonstrating how integral structures such as pavements and walls constitute a key element to how people interact with and inhabit the final design. The book discusses how these structures enable assist and care for people negotiating between the dynamic processes of site ecosystems and the soil on which they are founded. They articulate spatial functional cultural and ecological meanings. Within this theoretical framework designers will learn to recognize and insert a set of core values into the most technical design stages to reach their full potential. By offering a new perspective on landscape construction moving away from the exclusively technical characteristics this book allows landscape architects to realise the ideal vision for their designs. It is abundantly illustrated with examples from which designers can learn both successes and failures and will be an essential companion to any study of built landscapes. | A Philosophy of Landscape Construction The Vision of Built Landscapes

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Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

First published in 1988 this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up modified and carried out. The author explores the world-view of architects and planners considering their approach to design and the factors which influence this — work patterns career paths and the firms in which they operate. The author also studies their place in the political decision-making process as it affects urban questions and then explores how architects and planners roles are changing. | Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

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