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Smart Cities and Construction Technologies
This book includes nine chapters presenting the outcome of research projects relevant to building, cities, and construction. A description of a smart city and the journey from conventional to smart cities is discussed at the beginning of the book. Innovative case studies of underground cities and floating city bridges are presented in this book. BIM and GIS applications on different projects, a…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781838801991
- Collation
- xiii, 157 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.760285 ZHA s
The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice
What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a v…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048188949
- Collation
- vi, 272p ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 643.12 JAN m
The covert life of hospital architecture
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space synt…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800080881
- Collation
- xxi, 187 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 725.51 COV J
Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recogniti…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911576877
- Collation
- xiii, 332 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.47690809411 SEL M
Nanoparticle engineering for chemical-mechanical planarization : fabrication …
Increasing reliance on electronic devices demands products with high performance and efficiency. Such devices can be realized through the advent of nanoparticle technology. This book explains the physicochemical properties of nanoparticles according to each step in the chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process, including dielectric CMP, shallow trend isolation CMP, metal CMP, poly isolati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1100491609
- Collation
- xi. :ill. : 222 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 621.38152. JEA
Climate adaptation and resilience across scales : from buildings to cities
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptiv…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003030720
- Collation
- xxii, 264p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.927 RAJ c
Environmental management in construction : a quantitative approach
Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now virtually essential for environmental management to be considered at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic Envir…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138968899
- Collation
- xx. ;ill. :233 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 690.0286. ZHE e
Construction supply chain economics
This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the economic structural and behavioural characteristics of sectors integral to the construction indust…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203962480
- Collation
- vi. ;481 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 690.0687 KER c
On the politics of educational theory : rhetoric, theoretical ambiguity, and …
On the Politics of Educational Theory considers the political significance of educational theory as a specific genre of public discourse. Rather than understanding educational theories solely as addressing issues of childrearing and instruction, this book aims to view educational theories in a broader socio-political context. It explores the role of educational theories in the construction of c…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138602557
- Collation
- viii, 144 p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.1 SZK o
Embedded system design : embedded systems foundations of cyber-physical syste…
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts with an introduction to the field and a survey of specification models and languages for embedded and cyber-physical systems. It provides a brief overview of hardware devices u…
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- Fourth edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030609108
- Collation
- xxii, 433p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 004.21 MAR e
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