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Author : Pui-man Kwan
Release : 2004
Genre : Energy conservation
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Book Synopsis Building Energy Conservation and Environmental Assessment for Office Buildings in Hong Kong by : Pui-man Kwan
Download or read book Building Energy Conservation and Environmental Assessment for Office Buildings in Hong Kong written by Pui-man Kwan. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wahidul Biswas
Release : 2020-02-05
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Environmental Impact Assessment of Buildings by : Wahidul Biswas
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment of Buildings written by Wahidul Biswas. This book was released on 2020-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue covers a wide range of areas—including building orientation, service life, use of photocatalytically active structures and PV facades, implications of transportation system, building types (i.e., high rise, multilevel, commercial, residential), life cycle assessment, and structural engineering—that need to be considered in the environmental impact assessment of buildings, and the chapters include case studies across the globe. Consideration of these strategies would help reduce energy and material consumption, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with all phases of a building’s life cycle. Chapter 1 demonstrates that green star concrete exhibits the same structural properties as conventional concrete in Australia. Chapter 2 showed that the use of TiO2 as a photocatalyst on the surface of construction materials with a suitable stable binding agent, such as aggregates, would enable building walls to absorb NOx from air. This study found that TiO2 has the potential to reduce ambient concentrations of NOx from areas where this pollutant becomes concentrated under solar irradiation. Chapter 3 presents the life cycle assessment of architecturally integrated glass–glass photovoltaics in building facades to find the appropriate material composition for a multicolored PV façade offering improved environmental performance. Chapter 4 shows that urban office buildings lacking appropriate orientation experienced indoor overheating. Chapter 5 details four modeling approaches that were implemented to estimate buildings’ response towards load shedding. Chapter 6 covers the life cycle GHG emissions of high-rise residential housing block to discover opportunities for environmental improvement. Chapter 7 discusses an LCA framework that took into account variation in the service life of buildings associated with the use of different types of materials. Chapter 8 presents a useful data mining algorithm to conduct life cycle asset management in residential developments built on transport systems.
Author : Huasheng Huang
Release : 2000
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Building Hong Kong by : Huasheng Huang
Download or read book Building Hong Kong written by Huasheng Huang. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into four parts which focus on various aspects of environmental considerations in architecture.
Author : Yuk-Fu Pok
Release : 2017-01-26
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Book Synopsis Building Energy Conservation and the Environment in Hong Kong by : Yuk-Fu Pok
Download or read book Building Energy Conservation and the Environment in Hong Kong written by Yuk-Fu Pok. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Building Energy Conservation and the Environment in Hong Kong: a Case Study of Glazing Wall Office Building" by Yuk-fu, Pok, 卜玉富, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3125411 Subjects: Buildings - Energy conservation - China - Hong Kong Buildings - Environmental engineering - China - Hong Kong Architecture and energy conservation - China - Hong Kong Architecture and solar radiation - China - Hong Kong
Author : Pranab Kumar Nag
Release : 2018-12-31
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis Office Buildings by : Pranab Kumar Nag
Download or read book Office Buildings written by Pranab Kumar Nag. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together concepts from the building, environmental, behavioural and health sciences to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of office and workplace design. Today, with changes in the world of work and the relentless surge in technology, offices have emerged as the repositories of organizational symbolism, denoted by the spatial design of offices, physical settings and the built environment (architecture, urban locale). Drawing on Euclidian geometry that quantifies space as the distance between two or more points, a body of knowledge on office buildings, the concept of office and office space, and the interrelationships of spatial and behavioural attributes in office design are elucidated. Building and office work-related illnesses, namely sick building syndrome and ailments arising from the indoor environment, and the menace of musculoskeletal disorders are the alarming manifestations that critically affect employee satisfaction, morale and work outcomes. With a focus on office ergonomics, the book brings the discussion on the fundamentals of work design, with emphasis on computer workstation users. Strategic guidance of lighting systems and visual performance in workplaces are directed for better application of ergonomics and improvement in office indoor environment. It discusses the profiles of bioclimatic, indoor air quality, ventilation intervention, lighting and acoustic characteristics in office buildings. Emphasis has been given to the energy performance of buildings, and contemporary perspectives of building sustainability, such as green office building assessment schemes, and national and international building-related standards and codes. Intended for students and professionals from ergonomics, architecture, interior design, as well as construction engineers, health care professionals, and office planners, the book brings a unified overview of the health, safety and environment issues associated with the design of office buildings.
