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ECO-COMPASS

Author : Xiaosu Yi
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038976903
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book ECO-COMPASS written by Xiaosu Yi and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, mainly man-made materials, such as carbon and glass fibers, are used to produce composite parts in aviation. Renewable materials, such as natural fibers or bio-sourced resin systems, have not yet found their way into aviation. The project ECO-COMPASS aims to evaluate the potential applications of ecologically improved composite materials in the aviation sector in an international collaboration of Chinese and European partners. Natural fibers such as flax and ramie will be used for different types of reinforcements and sandwich cores. Furthermore, bio-based epoxy resins to substitute bisphenol-A based epoxy resins in secondary structures are under investigation. Adapted material protection technologies to reduce environmental influence and to improve fire resistance are needed to fulfil the demanding safety requirements in aviation. Modelling and simulation of chosen eco-composites aims for an optimized use of materials while a Life Cycle Assessment aims to prove the ecological advantages compared to synthetic state-of-the-art materials. This Special Issue provides selected papers from the project consortium partners.

Eco Structures

Author : Sabrina Leone
Publisher : White Star
ISBN 13 : 9788854404977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Eco Structures written by Sabrina Leone and published by White Star. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This portfolio of leading-edge ecostructures by prestigious firms the world over proffers blueprints for the future of architecture. The book presents innovations that show how advanced technology answers the challenge to use less and recycle more, how using local materials reduces costs, how incorporating elements of nature conserves our ecology, how buildings can take on the shapes of their natural surroundings to harmonize with the land, and how existing structures can be modernized by eco-friendly engineering and sustainable materials.

Eco-Homes

Author : Doctor Jenny Pickerill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780325320
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Homes written by Doctor Jenny Pickerill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. Despite this, relatively few eco-houses are being built. Featuring over thirty case studies of eco-housing in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina and the United States, Eco-Homes examines the ways in which radical changes to our houses – such as making them more temporary, using natural materials, or relying on manual heating and ventilation systems – require changes in how we live. As such, it argues, it is not lack of technology or political will that is holding us back from responding to climate change, but deep-rooted cultural and social understandings of our way of life and what we expect our houses to do for us.

Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030

Author : Giuliana Iannaccone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319002694
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030 by : Giuliana Iannaccone

Download or read book Smart-ECO Buildings towards 2020/2030 written by Giuliana Iannaccone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to provide a basis for design and construction of resource-efficient buildings. The main concepts follow the vision of a European Sustainable Building as defined in the 2-years Smart-ECO research project funded by European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program. The focus is concentrated on innovations enabling the building sector to meet the requirements originating from the sustainability concept. Innovation is considered at different scales: micro (product, service and process), meso (sector, supply chain, region and system) and macro (economy-wide). Furthermore, the book focuses on aspects of relevance when striving to implement innovative technologies in building design: an integrated design process is indispensable to obtain a Smart-ECO building, independently of how effective a single technology is. Each chapter provides information on fundamental aspects of innovations towards resource-efficient buildings, shows examples and makes further guidance by way of a dedicated bibliography. Case studies are predominantly recent projects or experiences improving understanding and encouraging implementation.

Integrated Life Cycle Design of Structures

Author : Asko Sarja
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000687163
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Life Cycle Design of Structures written by Asko Sarja and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the process of design has concentrated on the construction phase itself, with the primary objective being to optimise efficiency and minimise costs during development and construction. With the move towards a more sustainable development comes the need for this short-term approach to be expanded to encompass the entire service life of the structure. This book describes how to optimise the service life of structures, through an optimum integrated life cycle design process. Sustainability and material performance issues are detailed. Integrated Life Cycle Design of Structures provides a comprehensive account of this rapidly emerging field. It is essential reading for civil and structural engineers, designers, architects, contractors, and clients.

Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials

Author : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857097725
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials written by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials reviews ways of assessing the environmental impact of construction and building materials. Part one discusses the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology to building materials as well as eco-labeling. Part two includes case studies showing the application of LCA methodology to different types of building material, from cement and concrete to wood and adhesives used in building. Part three includes case studies applying LCA methodology to particular structures and components. - Reviews ways of assessing the environmental impact of construction and building materials - Provides a thorough overview, including strengths and shortcomings, of the life cycle assessment (LCA) and eco-labeling of eco-efficient construction and building materials - Includes case studies showing the application of LCA methodology to different types of building material, from cement and concrete to wood and adhesives used in building

Eco-Architecture VI

Author : V. Echarri
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784661112
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Architecture VI written by V. Echarri and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the papers deal with topics such as building technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, cultural sensitivity, life cycle assessment, resources and rehabilitation as well as many others. This book follows five successful meetings which started in the New Forest, UK in 2006, then followed in the Algarve (2008), A Coruna (2010), Kos (2012) and Siena, Italy (2014). Eco-Architecture signifies a new approach to the design process intended to harmonise its products with nature. This involves concepts such as minimum use of energy at each stage of the building process, taking into account the amount required during the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, assembly, building formation, maintenance and eventual future recycling. The adaptation of the architectural design to the natural environment, is another important issue. The book will be of interest to architects, engineers, planners, physical scientists, sociologists and economists and contained within these proceedings are case studies from many different places around the world. Topics covered consist of: Design with nature; Energy efficiency; Tall buildings and environment; Ecological impacts of materials; Biomaterials; Bioclimatic design; Water quality; Green facades; Ecological; Education and training; Adapted reuse; Transformative design; Sustainability indices in architecture; Bioclimatic design and passive systems; Recycle, reuse, reduce and recovery; Mixing it up and building flexibility; Architectural visualisation and New techniques: building information modelling.

Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure

Author : Bruno Peuportier
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000260828
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure written by Bruno Peuportier and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and AgroParisTech) and the VINCI group, aims to create measurement and simulation tools which integrate all the dimensions of eco-design (greenhouse gas emissions, impact on biodiversity and resource levies, etc.) to become real decision-making tools, based on a scientific approach, for all actors in the city (designers, builders and users). This book reviews the second five-year sequence of the Chair, first presenting methodological advances in eco-design: life cycle assessment and quantification of uncertainties; local environmental impacts of transport and biodiversity. The interdisciplinary partnership, also associating the human sciences, shows its interest in taking into account the human factor in the modelling of urban systems. This modelling is based on several numerical simulation tools, presented in the third part. This theoretical set results in more substantial proposals for the renewal of techniques and systems, in terms of energy management strategies in buildings, urban agriculture, participatory data collection and digital transformation in transport. This book is intended for urban planners, local authorities, building owners, architects, design offices, companies, building managers, teacher-researchers and anyone interested in the environmental quality of our living spaces.

Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures

Author : Sylvain Pioch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119865948
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Book Synopsis Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures by : Sylvain Pioch

Download or read book Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures written by Sylvain Pioch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an insight into how to create aesthetically pleasing, environmentally integrated, multi-functional developments in the ocean or on the coastline. Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures provides practical and realistic solutions for delivering projects that strive to minimize negative environmental impacts. Using case studies and examples, this book presents a toolkit of options, allowing decision makers and planners to see what is possible and to make informed choices about the risks and benefits of eco-design. It is intended for researchers, engineers, students and decision makers, or anyone who is curious to see how nature can be integrated into development.

Eco's Chaosmos

Author : Cristina Farronato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085863
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Eco's Chaosmos written by Cristina Farronato and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fiction writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and the hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between cosmos and chaos, order and disorder, is reflected in the word chaosmos. In this brilliant assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and re-play them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyzes The Name of the Rose in relation to William of Ockham's epistemology, C.S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She discusses Foucault's Pendulum as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to Early Modern hermetic thought, correlates The Island of the Day Before as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews Baudolino as an historical/fantastic novel that once again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. Eco's Chaosmos demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.

Advances in Structures

Author : Lijuan Li
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 3038135585
Total Pages : 4699 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Structures written by Lijuan Li and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 4699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected, peer-reviewed papers from the 2011 International Conference on Structures and Building Materials, (ICSBM 2011), 7-9 January, 2011, Guangzhou, China

The effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on patterns, structures and functions of terrestrial ecosystems

Author : Guoqi Wen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832537960
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on patterns, structures and functions of terrestrial ecosystems written by Guoqi Wen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction

Author : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081026420
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction by : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal

Download or read book Nanotechnology in Eco-efficient Construction written by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the latest technologies, Nanotechnology in eco-efficient construction provides an authoritative guide to the role of nanotechnology in the development of eco-efficient construction materials and sustainable construction. The book contains a special focus on applications concerning concrete and cement, as nanotechnology is driving significant development in concrete technologies. The new edition has 14 new chapters, including 3 new parts: Mortars and concrete related applications; Applications for pavements and other structural materials; and Toxicity, safety handling and environmental impacts. Civil engineers requiring an understanding of eco-efficient construction materials, as well as researchers and architects within any field of nanotechnology, eco-efficient materials or the construction industry will find this updated reference to be highly valuable. - Addresses issues such as toxicity and LCA aspects - New chapters covering safety handling on occupational exposure of nanoparticles and the assessment of personal exposure to airborne nanomaterials - Discusses the effects of adding nano-particles on the durability and on the properties of geopolymers

Eco-architecture III

Author : Santiago Hernández
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845644301
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Eco-architecture III written by Santiago Hernández and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains most of the papers presented in the Eco-Architecture 2010 conference, which was the third edition of the International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature. Previous editions, that were very successful were held previously in the New Forest, UK, in 2006 and the Algarve, Portugal in 2008 and demonstrated the importance of a forum like this to discuss the characteristics and challenges of such architectural vision. Eco-Architecture implies a new approach to the design process intended to harmonise its products with nature. This involves ideas such as minimum use of energy at each stage of the building process, taking into account the amount required during the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, assembly, building erection, maintenance and eventual future recycling. Presentations in the conference were related to topics like building technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, ecological and cultural sensitivity, life cycle assessment, quantifying sustainability in architecture, resources and rehabilitation, and issues from education, research and practice. Case studies from different places around the world were also presented.

Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy

Author : Susanne Elsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351119842
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy written by Susanne Elsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible. They require urgent and sustainable long-term solutions. Eco-Social Transformation and Community-Based Economy provides a transdisciplinary conception of community based socially productive approaches to eco-social transformation and sustainability. It introduces interdisciplinary discourses, basic theoretical concepts, participatory and community-based research, development strategies and practical prospects and considers them in the context of both eco-social transformation and eco-social work, especially with disadvantaged groups. With case studies that demonstrate the creative power of local embeddedness, diversity and cooperation, this book presents integrative local approaches as convincing examples of possible ways forward. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and activists working in community development, social development, social work and human geography.

Eco-Socialism

Author : David Pepper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861885
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Socialism written by David Pepper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

Author : Beatrix Busse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293139
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare written by Beatrix Busse and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic, lexicographical, pragmatic, social and contextual criteria. Going beyond the conventional paradigm of power and solidarity and with recourse to Shakespearean drama as both text and performance, the study sees vocatives as foregrounded experiential, interpersonal and textual markers. Shakespeare’s vocatives construe, both quantitatively and qualitatively, habitus and identity. They illustrate relationships or messages. They reflect Early Modern, Shakespearean, and intra- or inter-textual contexts. Theoretically and methodologically, the study is interdisciplinary. It draws on approaches from (historical) pragmatics, stylistics, Hallidayean grammar, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, socio-historical linguistics, sociology, and theatre semiotics. This study contributes, thus, not only to Shakespeare studies, but also to literary linguistics and literary criticism.