Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Understanding Sustainable Architecture By Helen Bennetts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis | ISBN: 0415283515 | edition 2002 | PDF | 144 pages | 5 mb

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a concise review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavor to design environmentally sustainable buildings and other built environments. The authors set out a coherent framework within which they discuss the important ethical, cultural, and conceptual issues of sustainable architecture. Through a series of self-reflective questions, the importance of ecological, social, and built contexts is argued, and problem framing is linked to succesful practice.

Architecture et efficacité énergétique: Principes de conception et de construction

Roberto Gonzalo, Karl J. Habermann, Yves Minssart, "Architecture et efficacité énergétique: Principes de conception et de construction "

Birkhauser Basel | 2008 | ISBN: 3764384514 | 221 pages | PDF | 37,4 MB

Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling

Murray B. Woolf, "Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling"

McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 ed | 2007 | ISBN: 0071486607 | 456 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

Building Type Basics for Museums

Building Type Basics for Museums

Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0471349151 | edition 2001 | CHM | 272 pages | 22,0 mb

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects. Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-use format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.Building Type Basics for Museums provides the essential information needed to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details, it combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture

Leonard R. Bachman - Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture

Wiley | 2002 | ISBN: 0471388270 | Pages: 496 | PDF | 14.08 MB

Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and Construction

Dictionary of Landscape Architecture and Construction
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | ISBN: 0071441425 | edition 2005 | PDF | 493 pages | 11,9 mb

In an industry that involves the skills, expertise, and labor of a wide-range of professionals and workers, good communications become crucial, and a common vocabulary is key to successful projects. Many of the terms used in landscape architecture, land planning, environmental planning, and landscape construction are unavailable, or so new, or industry-specific that they can�t be found in conventional dictionaries. This unique resource delivers definitions as well as how-to information via details and photos, going above and beyond the scope of a typical professional dictionary. With straightforward definitions and clear illustrations on each page, everyone from architects, designers, and contractors through grounds maintenance workers will benefit from this important resource. In addition, an appendix with labeled construction details will illustrate not just what a term means, but also how it�s applied in the profession.

Photovoltaics And Architecture

Randall Thomas, "Photovoltaics And Architecture "
Taylor & Francis | 2001 | ISBN: 0415231825 | 168 pages | PDF | 7,5 MB