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  • Cozy Minimalist Home

    More Style, Less Stuff

    by Myquillyn Smith ...
    Go beyond décor trends to make your home beautiful, stylish, and comfortable. . .on any budget.Writing for the hands-on woman who'd rather move her own furniture than hire a designer, Myquillyn Smith--author of the *The Nesting Place--*helps you think through every room in your house, one purposeful design decision at a time. With people, priorities, and purpose in mind, you can create a warm, ... Read more

    15,57 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 2

    Change Management

    by Dominik Holzer ...
    ePart 2 Change Management: A BIM Manager might be hired for their technical skills, but their success relies heavily on their ability to be an agent of change within their organisation, facilitating transition to BIM processes and mentoring staff through the cultural and procedural shifts. This ePart outlines strategies to manage an organisation’s transition to BIM successfully and to master ... Read more

    37,95 €

  • 200 Types of House Plans as per Vastu Shastra

    by AS Sethu Pathi ...
    This book contains 200 varieties of house plans as per Vastu Shastra. As per Vastu Shastra the main door of the house facing towards East, West and North direction is very good. East and North direction considering very good in Vastu Shastra. Main door facing towards south direction is very bad so we must want to avoid that direction. So in this book I included house plans as per Vastu Shastra, ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 1

    Best Practice BIM

    by Dominik Holzer ...
    ePart 1 Best Practice BIM: Seeking to get BIM right? This ePart provides a touchstone for good practice by introducing a number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which represent benchmarks for successful BIM implementation. It explains what good BIM looks like and the pitfalls to avoid with ‘bad BIM’ and ‘pseudo BIM’. It highlights the part that the BIM Manager can play in achieving excellence ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • AutoCAD 2019 For Architectural Design

    by Tutorial Books ...
    Learn to design Home Plans in AutoCADIn this book, you will discover the process evolved in modeling a Home in AutoCAD from hand drawn sketches to a completed two storied home. You will start by importing hand sketches, and then create two dimensional floor plans and elevations. Later, you will move on to 3D modeling and create exterior and interior walls, doors, balcony, windows, stairs, and ... Read more

    20,99 €

  • Earth 2035

    by Tom Orrowchild ...
    Earth2035 is a compelling and visionary nonfiction work exploring humanity's role in the survival of Earth and its ecosystems. Through a philosophical and scientific lens, the book presents the challenges facing our planet-climate change, overpopulation, unsustainable growth, pollution, and biodiversity loss-while proposing intelligent, actionable solutions through global cooperation. Using the ... Read more

    6,35 €

  • Sustainability in Interior Design

    by Siân Moxon, Sian Moxon ...
    Series series Portfolio Skills
    The environmental impact of interior architecture and design practice is immense. This book highlights the need for designers to adapt the way they work and relearn lessons that have been lost.Contrary to many preconceptions, sustainable design can be sophisticated and stylish. And by its nature, a sustainable approach means considering the whole life cycle of a project and therefore improving the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    by Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett ...
    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • The Passivhaus Designer's Manual

    A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

    Edited by Christina Hopfe ...
    Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world, with almost 50,000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types, the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards, Passivhaus provides a robust ‘fabric first’ approach ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • Cities After Crisis

    Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up

    by Carlos Vazquez ...
    Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de ... Read more

    Free

  • Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry

    Edited by Temitope Omotayo, Temitope Egbelakin, Olabode Ogunmakinde, Adebayo Sojobi ...
    Series series Spon Research
    Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction industry hinged on the construction industrial fourth and fifth revolution, otherwise known as construction industry 4.0 and 5.0.This book provides a wide range of expert views and case studies on the future of the construction industry from the ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • casa quadrata casa rotonda

    by Ruggero Pierdomenico ...
    Studi di composizione architettonica per habitat unifamiliare , con particolare attenzione alla forma , agli spazi vivibili e flessibilità d’uso , alla ottimizzazione di strutture , tecnologie ed impianti , al fabbisogno di energia ecosostenibile .( tutti i contenuti inseriti sono stati creati da Ruggero Pierdomenico ) ... Read more

    19,00 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook to Building a Circular Economy

    by David Cheshire ...
    This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals. To avoid a climate catastrophe and achieve a regenerative built environment, the use of new materials and any excess waste in resources need to be cut out from the very beginning of the design process. This requires far-reaching change in established industry processes. How might this begin? What are the ... Read more

    41,40 €

  • Mapping in Architectural Discourse

    Place-Time Discontinuities

    by Marc Schoonderbeek ...
    Series series Architectural Borders and Territories
    This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the relationship between research and design in architecture through cartography and spatial analysis.It proposes three distinct modalities: tool, operation and concept, showing how these methods lead to discursive aspects of architectural work and ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Green Buildings and the Law

    Edited by Julie Adshead ...
    Series series CIB
    In countries such as the UK, the energy used in constructing, occupying and operating buildings represents approximately fifty percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure to improve the environmental performance of buildings during both construction and occupancy, particularly to reduce carbon emissions from buildings, has become intense.Understandably, legislation and regulation are driving ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

    Select Proceedings of ICSTEESD 2018

    Edited by Mohan Lal Kolhe, Pawan Kumar Labhasetwar, H. M. Suryawanshi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD 2018). The chapters are broadly divided into three focus areas, viz. energy, environment, and sustainable development, and discusses the relevance and applications of smart technologies in these fields. A wide variety of topics such as ... Read more

    190,79 €

  • Climate Action Leaders

    Solutions and Opportunities

    by Thomas L. Brewer ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book is a unique compendium and handbook that identifies and describes many specific, tangible climate change actions taken by leaders in various sectors. It is partly a casebook of constructive, innovative examples, designed to inspire and inform further actions.There are three principal categories of cases in the book: technologies, government policies, and business practices. The chapters ... Read more

    104,93 €

  • EU Islands and the Clean Energy Transition

    by Gabriel Winter-Althaus, Antonio Pulido-Alonso, Lourdes Trujillo, Enrique Rosales-Asensio ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book explains the challenges and barriers of island energy systems in the European Union. It reviews the research projects carried out to date, and proposes a new feasible scheme that could be advantageous to many isolated energy systems.The book contains a thorough literature review, to ensure the originality of its ideas. It provides a clear insight of the opportunities and difficulties ... Read more

    42,92 €

  • Sustainable Infrastructures

    Proceedings of EGRWSE-23, Volume 3

    Edited by Arvind Kumar Agnihotri, Krishna R. Reddy, Ajay Bansal ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book contains peer-reviewed and selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE) 2023, held at NIT Jalandhar. It discusses the recent innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted in waste management and engineering, geotechnical and ... Read more

    218,46 €

  • Ecohydrology-Based Landscape Restoration

    Theory and Practice

    by Mulugeta Dadi Belete ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration.Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration integrates landscape restoration practices with ecohydrology science and principles in order to help address the limitations of current management practices in developing countries. Focusing on both the ... Read more

    25,56 €

  • The Universe of Design

    Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning

    by Jean-Pierre Protzen, David Harris ...
    This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design.When people – alone or in groups – want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and he developed theories – including his notion of "wicked problems" – that are used in many fields today. From product design, architecture and planning – ... Read more

    80,35 €

  • The Architect's Eye

    by Tom Porter ...
    This book explores the important relationship between the way we see and the way we draw architectural ideas. The text deals with sensory experience of space, the spatial cues represented in architectural drawing and the relationship between drawing type and design intent. It also addresses new forms of drawing provided by new technological aids such as animated computer graphics and virtual ... Read more

    127,86 €

  • Urban Experience and Design

    Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm

    Edited by Justin B. Hollander, Ann Sussman ...
    Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our conscious ... Read more

    48,70 €

  • A Green Vitruvius

    Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design

    by Vivienne Brophy, J. Owen Lewis ...
    2000 years ago the roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture establishing the concept of the pattern book offering design principles and solutions that is still referred to in every architect's education. A Green Vitruvius is intended as a green pattern book for today.Now fully updated, this well established textbook provides advice suitable for undergraduate and ... Read more

    80,35 €