Sustainable Built Environments

Sustainable design is a collective process whereby the built environment achieves unprecedented levels of ecological balance through new and retrofit construction, with the goal of long-term viability and humanization of architecture. Focusing on the environmental context, sustainable design merges...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Loftness, Vivian (-), Haase, Dagmar
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York 2013.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33020826*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Sustainable Built Environment
  • Bioclimatic Design
  • Biofuels and Sustainable Buildings
  • Daylight, Indoor Illumination, and Human Behavior
  • Daylighting Controls, Performance and Global Impacts
  • Facades and Enclosures, Building for Sustainability
  • Geothermal Conditioning: Critical Sources for Sustainability
  • Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Improvement, Evidence-Based Design for
  • Natural Ventilation in Built Environment
  • Passive House (Passivhaus)
  • Passive Solar Heating in Built Environment
  • Rating Systems for Sustainability
  • Regenerative Development and Design
  • Resource Repletion, Role of Buildings
  • Sustainability Performance Simulation Tools for Building Design
  • Sustainable and Healthy Built Environment
  • Sustainable Built Environment, Introduction
  • Sustainable Design and Construction, Integrated Delivery Processes and Building Information Modeling
  • Sustainable Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning
  • Part II: Sustainable Landscape Design and Green Roof Science and Technology
  • Biodiversity in Cities, Reconnecting Humans with Nature
  • Green Infrastructure and Climate Change
  • Green Roof Infrastructures in Urban Areas
  • Green Roof Planning in Urban Areas
  • Green Roofs, Ecological Functions
  • Landscape Planning for Minimizing Land Consumption
  • Landscape Planning for Sustainable Water Usage
  • Landscape Planning/Design of Shrinking Landscapes
  • Sustainable Landscape Design, Urban Forestry, and Green Roof Science and Technology, Introduction
  • Sustainable Landscapes
  • Urban Forest Function, Design and Management
  • Urban Redevelopment and Quality of Open Spaces.