Electronic Books

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A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability: From Nano to Macroscale / Julian Wang, Donglu Shi, Yehao Song

Demonstrates the importance of smart and dynamic building skins in in sustainable buildings Provides the scientific basis ...

Advanced Physicochemical Treatment Processes

Leading pollution control educators and practicing professionals describe how various combinations of different physicochemical ...

Beyond the Limits to Growth : New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan

This book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...

Building Systems for Interior Designers, 3rd Edition / Corky Binggeli

The ultimate interior designer's guide to building systems and safety Building Systems for Interior Designers, Third Edition ...

Characterization of Corrosion Products on Steel Surfaces

It is well known that corrosion products, i.e. rust, on iron and steel surfaces cannot be assigned a typical crystallographic ...

Designers' Guide to EN 1991-1-4 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures, general actions part 1–4. Wind actions

EN1991-1-4, Eurocode 1: Actions on structures -General actions - Part 1-4: Wind actions, is the head code for wind actions ...

Digital Technologies in Construction Engineering : Selected Papers / Sergey Vasil'yevich Klyuev

Includes the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers ...

Groundwater Management in Asian Cities : Technology and Policy for Sustainability

The number of city dwellers who do not have access to piped water and rely on groundwater is also increasing. In many Asian ...

HDPE Geomembranes in Geotechnics

HDPE (High-density polyethylene) geomembranes are nowadays widely used for large-area liners and construction sealings in ...

Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

Potentially dangerous environmental changes are happening in the atm- phere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous ...

Sol-Gel Methods for Materials Processing : Focusing on Materials for Pollution Control, Water Purification, and Soil Remediation

In this volume several contributions from invited speakers and participants at the NATO advanced research workshop on "Sol-gel ...

Systems Analysis for Water Technology

This book presents in a concise format the methods used to develop mathematical models for water and wastewater treatment. ...

The exploitation of natural resources and the consequences: The proceedings of GREEN 3: the 3rd International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the European Environment held in Berlin, Germany, June 2000

As the pressure to conserve agricultural land and green-field sites has grown it has become increasingly important to reclaim ...

Vision 2050 : Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth

Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. "Vision 2050" is built upon three ...

Water Resource Systems Planning and Management

This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources ...

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