Preface -- Climate Action Planning -- Creating a Framework for Community Action -- Community Engagement and Collaboration -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting -- Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities -- Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment -- Strategies for Resilient Communities -- Pathways to Successful Implementation -- Communities Leading the Way -- Time to Take Action -- Appen…
Part I: Product Life Cycle Design and Business Strategy -- EcoDesign of Products and Life Cycles -- Sustainable Consumption -- Business Innovation -- Part II: Technologies for the Future and Sustainability -- From Big Data to Smart Data -- Cyber-Physical Systems -- Environmental Effects of Latest Technology Trends -- Part III: Social Perspectives in EcoDesign -- Social Vision and Scenarios for…
"A plea for a renewed commitment to authentic urbanism and an invitation to learn from history as our cities enter a future of unprecedented change." Alex Steffen, author of "Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that Can Save the Planet" "One of Chuck Wolfe's great gifts is an extraordinary photographer's eye for capturing visual images of everyday, but evocative, city life. Another is an uncommonly s…
Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries -- Urbanism and Sustainability concept -- Energy & Sustainability Concept.This edited volume consists of three parts. It is a culmination of selected research papers presented at the second version of the international conference on Improving Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries (ISCDC) and the second version of the international conferen…
1.Development and Application of Water-saving and Moisture-retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing -- 2.Characteristics of excavation-induced deformation associated with different propped retaining walls in soft soil -- 3.Slope Stability Analysis of the Embankment Filled with River Sand and Weathered Mudstone Rock -- 4.Investigating Effects of Indivi…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…
State-of-the-art in building facades -- Biomaterials for building skins -- Designing building skins with biomaterials -- Best practices -- Service life performance -- Portfolio of bio-based façade materials -- Future perspectives.Open AccessThis book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades,…
How the Hut Came to Be -- Quonsets, Alaska, and World War II -- War, Design, and Weapons of Mass Construction -- After the War: Quonset Huts and Their Integration Into Daily American Life -- The Huts That Wouldn’t Go Away: Alaska Adopts the Hut -- Quonsets Today: Concluding Thoughts.Julie Decker x Acknowledgments xii Introduction The Hut That Shaped a Nation Julie Decker and Chris Chiei xv Ch…
American Tract Society Building -- Bayard-Condict Building -- Park Row Building -- Flatiron Building -- West Street Building (now 90 West Street) -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower -- Bankers Trust Company Building (originally 14 Wall Street) -- Woolworth Building -- Municipal Building -- Candler Building -- Equitable Building -- Bush Tower -- Shelton Towers Hotel (now Marriott East S…
Retrofitting gravity load designed r.c frames using frp -- Condition monitoring of overhead line equipment (ohle) structures using ground-bourne vibrations from train passages -- Application of nano-silica in concrete for bridges in vietnam for sustainable development -- Frp tubes filled with reinforced concrete subjected to cyclic axial loading -- Ultimate flexural capacity prediction of recta…