| Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health Contributor(s): Rassia, Stamatina Th (Editor), Pardalos, Panos M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1441907440 ISBN-13: 9781441907448 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Technology & Engineering | Civil - General - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Design - Product |
| Dewey: 720.47 |
| LCCN: 2011937580 |
| Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |