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Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 320
Assessment of Energy-Efficient Building Details for Seismic Regions
This open access book presents a methodology for the assessment of structural building details, taking into account the contemporary guidelines for earthquake-resistant and energy-efficient buildings. A review of structural details for energy-efficient buildings revealed that in some cases the structural system is interrupted, leading to solutions which are not suitable for earthquake-prone reg…
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- 978-3-030-97556-2
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iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable …
This open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, an…
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- 978-3-030-92096-8
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- XLI, 371
The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II…
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- 9780262345798
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The Maryland eastern shore and tile
Thus the Eastern Shore (properly, perhaps, pronounced Eastern Sho'), a climate paradise, with long penetrating fingers of the Bay extending inward to form frequent fine water highways, became a center of culture and development which even the once-disbelieved transfer of sea trade to Boston, New York and Philadelphia failed to abate or tarnish. This level land, boasting recurring views of wa…
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- 108683320
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- cdl; americana
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- nrlf_ucb:GLAD-117788651
The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
A college campus offers an ideal setting for exploring and practicing sustainability. Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the dire threat it poses to the planet. They provide opportunities for both research and implementation; they have the capacity to engage students, staff, and faculty in collaborative enterprises that inspire campu…
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- 9780262321570
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- 1 online resource
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Maintenance architecture
An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335355
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- 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages)
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Design on the edge: the making of a high-performance building
Tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281065
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Re-manufacturing networks for tertiary architectures
This book deals with re-manufacturing, recondition, reuse and repurpose considered as winning strategies for boosting regenerative circular economy in the building sector. It presents many of the outcomes of the research Re-NetTA (Re-manufacturing Networks for Tertiary Architectures). New organisational models and tools for re-manufacturing and re-using short life components coming from tertiar…
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- 9788835142232
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Developing Disaster Resilient Housing in Vietnam: Challenges and Solutions
This book provides a comprehensive understanding on disaster resilient housing within the Vietnam context particularly and the developing world generally. The book has identified the root causes of housing vulnerability, restrictions to safe housing development, concepts of disaster resilient housing, key issues/factors implementers and building designers need to consider, and ways of achieving…
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- -
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- 9783319267432
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- xxiv, 245 pages
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- 691
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