Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health (2012) (Springer Optimization and Its Applications #56)

Synopsis

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing. This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve how buildings are engineered and designed in order to utilize more sustainable construction methods while promoting the health of the building's occupants. Contributions to the study of environmental design have come from a diversity of fields including applied mathematics, optimization, computer science, medical research, psychology, management science, architecture, and engineering. The techniques developed in these areas of research can be used to increase building performance, occupant satisfaction, productivity, and well being, and reducing the incidence of health conditions and chronic diseases related to the use of a designed space. This book provides architectural practitioners, civil engineers as well as other interdisciplinary researchers with the techniques needed to design, implement, and test for sustainability and health promotion in new or existing structures.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781441907455

Related ISBNs:

9781441907448

Publisher:

Springer New York

Date of Addition:

01/04/21

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Business and Finance, Technology, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Stamatina Th. Rassia

Edited by:

Panos M. Pardalos