Design In The Built Environment

Author : Rob Fleming,Saglinda H Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351659178

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Sustainable Design for the Built Environment by Rob Fleming,Saglinda H Roberts Pdf

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 extensive online resources including videos and PowerPoints for each chapter, this book will be essential reading for students of sustainability and sustainable design.

Author : Wendy R. McClure,Tom J. Bartuska
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118174159

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The Built Environment by Wendy R. McClure,Tom J. Bartuska Pdf

This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.

Author : Michael U. Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136473531

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Design Innovation for the Built Environment by Michael U. Hensel Pdf

Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability. How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace? How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly? Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are emerging which are triggered directly by the need to renovate practice. One significant prevailing mode is what has come to be known as ‘research by design’. This book delivers an overview of this pluralistic domain. Bringing together a range of leading architects, architectural theorists, and designers, it outlines the developments in current practice from leading individuals based in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Europe. Edited by a recognized expert, this book exposes the undercurrent of research, which is taking place and how this will contribute to the renovation of architectural practice.

Author : Ronald Fraser Reekie
Publisher : Crane Russak, Incorporated
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006799640

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Design in the Built Environment by Ronald Fraser Reekie Pdf

Author : Runming Yao
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447147817

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Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments by Runming Yao Pdf

Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management. An integrated approach in delivering a sustainable built environment is desired by the built environment professional institutions. The aim of this book is to provide an advanced understanding of the key subjects required for the design and management of modern built environments to meet carbon emission reduction targets. In Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments, an international group of experts provide comprehensive and the most up-to-date knowledge, covering sustainable urban and building design, management and assessment. The best practice case studies of the implementation of sustainable technology and management from the BRE Innovation Park are included. Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments will be of interest to urban and building designers, environmental engineers, and building performance assessors. It will be particularly useful as a reference book for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the built environment field.

Author : Herbert Robinson,Barry Symonds,Barry Gilbertson,Ben Ilozor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118944868

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Design Economics for the Built Environment by Herbert Robinson,Barry Symonds,Barry Gilbertson,Ben Ilozor Pdf

The drive towards environmentally friendly buildings and infrastructure has led to a growing interest in providing design solutions underpinned by the core principles of sustainability to balance economic, social and environmental factors. Design Economics for the Built Environment: Impact of sustainability on project evaluation presents new directions, reflecting the need to recognise the impact of climate change and the importance of sustainability in project evaluation. The aim is to provide a new approach to understanding design economics in the context of the changing policy environment, legislative and regulatory framework, and increasing economic, environmental and social pressure as result of the sustainability agenda. The book follows a structured approach from theories and principles in the earlier chapters, to the practical applications and emerging techniques focusing on value and social, economic and environmental considerations in making design decisions. It starts with the policy context, building on various theories and principles such as, capital cost, value of design and resource-based theories, the new rules of measurement (NRM) to explore cost planning, the relationship between height and costs, key socio-economic and environmental variables for design appraisal, eco-cost/value ratio (EVR), whole life theory and the treatment of carbon emission as external costs, productivity and efficiency, fiscal drivers and legal framework for carbon reduction, procurement and allocation of risks in contracts. Case studies, practical examples and frameworks throughout reinforce theories and principles and relate them to current practice. The book is essential reading for postgraduate students in architecture, building and quantity surveying and is also a valuable resource for academics, consultants and policy-makers in the built environment.

Author : Ron Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000705362

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Smart Buildings by Ron Bakker Pdf

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

Author : Mainak Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030258795

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Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment by Mainak Ghosh Pdf

This edited volume is a compilation of the ‘built environment’ in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design. The chapters concentrate on various independent issues, integrated as a holistic approach, both in terms of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, predominantly focusing on the Global South. The book builds fabric knitting into the generic understanding of environment, perception and design encompassing ‘different’ attitudes and inspirations. This book is an important reference to topics concerning urbanism, urban developments and physical growth, and highlights new methodologies and practices. The book presumes an understanding unearthed from various dimensions and again woven back to a common theme, which emerges as the reader reads through. Various international experts of the respective fields working on the Global South contributed their latest research and insights to the different parts of the book. This trans-disciplinary volume appeals to scientists, students and professionals in the fields of architecture, geography, planning, environmental sciences and many more.

Author : Paul L Knox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315452753

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Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988) by Paul L Knox Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Newton,Keith Hampson,Robin Drogemuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134041824

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Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment by Peter Newton,Keith Hampson,Robin Drogemuller Pdf

Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this into a global challenge. This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation: Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly – and the reduction of their ecological ‘fingerprints’, the extension of their service lives, and their re-use and recyclability. It also explores the prospects for applying the principles of the assembly line. Virtual Design, Construction and Management, viewed as increasing sustainable development through automation, enhanced collaboration (such as virtual design teams), real time BL performance assessment during design, simulation of the construction process, life-cycle management of project information (zero information loss) risk minimisation, and increased potential for innovation and value adding. Integrating Design, Construction and Facility Management over the Project Life Cycle, by converging ICT, design science engineering and sustainability science. Integration across spatial scales, enabling building–infrastructure synergies (such as water and energy efficiency). Convergences between IT and design and operational processes are also viewed as a key platform increased sustainability.

Author : Sebastian Macmillan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415315258

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Designing Better Buildings by Sebastian Macmillan Pdf

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Author : Leslie Holes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135818241

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Creating the Built Environment by Leslie Holes Pdf

We spend most of our lives in buildings and almost every building is unique. The purpose of this book is to explain what buildings are and to provide an integrated overview of how they are built and sustained. The book does not presume any specialist knowledge of buildings, seeking instead to explain why the different groups involved in designing, constructing, managing and occupying them follow certain procedures. It is particularly concerned with the generation and circulation of information between these groups. In taking this view, the book considers the recommendations of Sir Michael Latham's 1994 report Constructing the Team which called for better cohesion and communication between specialists in the construction industry.

Author : John Carpenter
Publisher : Thomas Telford Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0727765825

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Designing a Safer Built Environment by John Carpenter Pdf

Designing a Safer Built Environment places the statutory obligations on designers into the real world of commercial projects.

Author : Chitrarekha Kabre
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Buildings
ISBN : 0367615746

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Synergistic Design of Sustainable Built Environments by Chitrarekha Kabre Pdf

This book is a practical tool or handbook for architects, building professionals, researchers and students that explains and demonstrates how design wisdom of passive solar architecture can be integrated with the best of modern technological advancement to create sustainable and regenerative designed humane architecture.

Author : Aggregate
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822977896

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Governing by Design by Aggregate Pdf

Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level. Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.