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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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- 9781003030720
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- xxii, 264p. : ill.
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- 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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- 9781138968899
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- xx. ;ill. :233 p.
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- 690.0286. ZHE e
Creating healthy and sustainable buildings : an assessment of health risk fac…
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy probl…
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- 9783030194123
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- xviii, 160p. : ill.
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- 720.47 DOV c
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