Energy efficiency is an integral part of making buildings greener, which has become a key issue for both developing and developed countries. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners from a number of interconnected disciplines have all shown increa...Loe edasi...
Resilient Cities and Infrastructures in Earthquake Zones: Sustainable Solutions explores strategies and technologies to enhance the resilience of infrastructure in earthquake-prone areas, focusing on innovative approaches to mitigate seismic risks....Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the most recent developments in sustainable engineering, emphasizing cutting-edge materials, techniques, and technologies that have paved the way to a more sustainable future. It provides readers with an...Loe edasi...
This open access book presents key findings from the German Research Foundations priority program SPP 2020, offering insights into the fatigue behavior of high-strength and ultra-high-strength concretes, including fibre-reinforced types. Readers wil...Loe edasi...
Over the past decade, the security environment has undergone rapid transformation driven by climate change, geopolitical tensions, digitalization, energy transition, and AI integration. These shifts have created a new risk reality where traditional...Loe edasi...
This book provides a rigorous theoretical analysis of the evolution of non-state actors within the contemporary global security architecture. Utilising Securitisation Theory, the authors examine how national movements transition from revolutionary o...Loe edasi...
This book serves as an addition, hence En Plus, to the classic textbook Finite Element Procedures by the same author (now available in two volumes). This book covers the major developments in finite element methods during the last two dec...Loe edasi...
This book explains all aspects of building acoustics including the design considerations, empirical formulations, measurement methodology, and uncertainty quantifications. It presents a database of the acoustical materials tested in the Reverberat...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive guide covers the complete cement production process—from raw material extraction to finished products. This comprehensive guide covers the complete cement production process—from raw materi...Loe edasi...
The efficient and reliable handling of bulk solids is central to a vast range of industries, from mining and energy to pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and food processing. Despite its industrial importance, bulk solids handling has too often been appr...Loe edasi...
This textbook provides a thorough exploration of wind effects on the built environment, serving as a valuable reference for students, researchers, and practicing engineers. Wind has always influenced the design and performance of structures, from ea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, ISBN-13: 9781941332863)
This book insists on materials not as passive inputs but as unruly agents, shaped by and shaping the political, ecological, and cultural processes around them....Loe edasi...
Investigates the potential of mycelium as a sustainable material within architecture and design. It combines theoretical perspectives, practical methodologies and digital fabrication processes to present techniques, critical analysis and emerging ap...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the ergonomics of the built environment as a holistic, user-centered, and practice-oriented discipline that integrates human factors into architectural and urban design. It examines how the physical, cogni...Loe edasi...
What building today tells us about tomorrow’s Earth—and our place on it. Geology is the architecture of our planet, and what we build has always been dependent on what the earth has already made. Yet in recent decades, we, rather than...Loe edasi...
GIS and BIM in Infrastructure Projects: An Introduction to Applications Across the Lifecycle demonstrates how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can complement Building Information Modelling (BIM) throughout infrastructure development. While BIM...Loe edasi...
GIS and BIM in Infrastructure Projects: An Introduction to Applications Across the Lifecycle emphasizes that infrastructure lifestyle planning cannot be done in isolation but must consider surrounding facilities, utilities, neighbourhoods, and top...Loe edasi...
Hazardous construction materials can be of significant economic importance in building and real estate industries.Examples of this include the assessment of potential contaminated sites, the remediation of construction pollutants or the cos...Loe edasi...
This book presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, construction technologies, and maintenance and management of constructed facilities....Loe edasi...
