Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture - Impacts on Health (Hardcover, 2012)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 56
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	2012
Editors:	Stamatina Th. Rassia • Panos M. Pardalos
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
Edition:	2012
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-0744-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Environmental factors
LSN:	1-4419-0744-0
Barcode:	9781441907448

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