0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 matches in All Departments

Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings - An output of the CTBUH Sustainability Working Group (Hardcover):... Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings - An output of the CTBUH Sustainability Working Group (Hardcover)
Antony Wood, Ruba Salib
R5,483 Discovery Miles 54 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tall buildings are not the only solution for achieving sustainability through increased density in cities but, given the scale of current population shifts, the vertical city is increasingly being seen as the most viable solution for many urban centers. However, the full implications of concentrating more people on smaller plots of land by building vertically - whether for work, residential or leisure functions - needs to be better researched and understood. It is generally accepted that we need to reduce the energy equation in both operating and embodied terms of every component and system in the building as an essential element in making it more sustainable. Mechanical HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) in tall office buildings typically account for 30-40 percent of overall building energy consumption. The increased efficiency (or possibly even elimination) of these mechanical systems through the provision of natural ventilation could thus be argued to be the most important single step we could make in making tall buildings more sustainable. This guide sets out recommendations for every phase of the planning, construction and operation of natural ventilation systems in these buildings, including local climatic factors that need to be taken into account, how to plan for seasonal variations in weather, and the risks in adopting different implementation strategies. All of the recommendations are based on analysis of the research findings from richly-illustrated international case studies. Tried and tested solutions to real-life problems make this an essential guide for anyone working on the design and operation of tall buildings anywhere in the world. This is the first technical guide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat s Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group looking in depth at a key element in the creation of tall buildings with a much-reduced environme

Best Tall Buildings - A Global Overview of 2014 Skyscrapers (Hardcover): Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Daniel Safarik Best Tall Buildings - A Global Overview of 2014 Skyscrapers (Hardcover)
Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Daniel Safarik
R3,426 Discovery Miles 34 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world's foremost authority on tall buildings. This book chronicles the annual awards process, in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings and design innovations that advance the potential of integrated sustainability in cities across the world. One winner is chosen from each of four geographical regions (Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa). The title of overall Best Tall Building Worldwide is then presented to one of the four regional winners. Additionally, the Urban Habitat Award recognizes significant contributions to the urban realm, in connection with tall buildings. The 10 Year Award recognizes proven value and performance (across one or more of a wide range of criteria) after a building has been complete and in operation for at least a decade. The CTBUH Innovation Award recognizes a specific area of recent innovation in the tall building industry that has been incorporated into the design of, or significantly tested in, the construction, operation, or refurbishment of a tall building project. The Performance Award recognizes a building with proven value and performance over a minimum of three years. The CTBUH also gives two annual Lifetime Achievement awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the design or technical advancement of tall buildings. More than an awards book, this volume serves as a global overview of tall building construction and activity in a given year, providing in-depth description of the buildings' design and significance and accompanied by stunning images, detailed drawings and plans. The book also features the official current list of the "100 Tallest Buildings in the World," as the CTBUH is the internationally recognized official arbiter of tall building height. This book provides fascinating and inspiring reading for all those interested in the planning, design, and construction of tall buildings.

Best Tall Buildings 2013 - CTBUH International Award Winning Projects (Hardcover, New): Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Safarik... Best Tall Buildings 2013 - CTBUH International Award Winning Projects (Hardcover, New)
Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Safarik Daniel
R2,428 Discovery Miles 24 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world's foremost authority on tall buildings. This book chronicles the annual awards process, in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings and design innovations that advance the potential of integrated sustainability in cities across the world. One winner is chosen from each of four geographical regions (Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa). The title of overall Best Tall Building Worldwide is then presented to one of the four regional winners. The CTBUH Innovation Award recognizes a specific area of recent innovation in the tall building industry that has been incorporated into the design of, or significantly tested in, the construction, operation, or refurbishment of a tall building project. The 10 Year Award recognizes proven value and performance (across one or more of a wide range of criteria) after a building has been complete and in operation for at least a decade. Additionally, the CTBUH awards two annual Lifetime Achievement awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the design or technical advancement of tall buildings. More than an awards book, this volume serves as a global overview of tall building construction and activity in a given year, providing in-depth description of the buildings' design and significance and accompanied by stunning images, detailed drawings and plans. The book also features the official current list of the "100 Tallest Buildings in the World" as the CTBUH is the internationally recognized official arbiter of tall building height. This book provides fascinating and inspiring reading for all those interested in the planning, design, and construction of tall buildings.

The Tall Buildings Reference Book (Hardcover, New): David Parker, Antony Wood The Tall Buildings Reference Book (Hardcover, New)
David Parker, Antony Wood
R4,709 Discovery Miles 47 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the ever-changing skylines of cities all over the world show, tall buildings are an increasingly important solution to accommodating growth more sustainably in today s urban areas. Whether it is residential, a workplace or mixed use, the tower is both a statement of intent and the defining image for the new global city.

The Tall Buildings Reference Book addresses all the issues of building tall, from the procurement stage through the design and construction process to new technologies and the building s contribution to the urban habitat. A case study section highlights the latest, the most innovative, the greenest and the most inspirational tall buildings being constructed today.

A team of over fifty experts in all aspects of building tall have contributed to the making of the "Tall Buildings Reference Book," creating an unparalleled source of information and inspiration for architects, engineers and developers.

Best Tall Buildings - A Global Overview of 2014 Skyscrapers (Paperback): Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Daniel Safarik Best Tall Buildings - A Global Overview of 2014 Skyscrapers (Paperback)
Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Daniel Safarik
R1,956 Discovery Miles 19 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world's foremost authority on tall buildings. This book chronicles the annual awards process, in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings and design innovations that advance the potential of integrated sustainability in cities across the world. One winner is chosen from each of four geographical regions (Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa). The title of overall Best Tall Building Worldwide is then presented to one of the four regional winners. Additionally, the Urban Habitat Award recognizes significant contributions to the urban realm, in connection with tall buildings. The 10 Year Award recognizes proven value and performance (across one or more of a wide range of criteria) after a building has been complete and in operation for at least a decade. The CTBUH Innovation Award recognizes a specific area of recent innovation in the tall building industry that has been incorporated into the design of, or significantly tested in, the construction, operation, or refurbishment of a tall building project. The Performance Award recognizes a building with proven value and performance over a minimum of three years. The CTBUH also gives two annual Lifetime Achievement awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the design or technical advancement of tall buildings. More than an awards book, this volume serves as a global overview of tall building construction and activity in a given year, providing in-depth description of the buildings' design and significance and accompanied by stunning images, detailed drawings and plans. The book also features the official current list of the "100 Tallest Buildings in the World," as the CTBUH is the internationally recognized official arbiter of tall building height. This book provides fascinating and inspiring reading for all those interested in the planning, design, and construction of

Best Tall Buildings 2013 - CTBUH International Award Winning Projects (Paperback): Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Safarik Daniel Best Tall Buildings 2013 - CTBUH International Award Winning Projects (Paperback)
Antony Wood, Steven Henry, Safarik Daniel
R1,960 Discovery Miles 19 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is the world's foremost authority on tall buildings. This book chronicles the annual awards process, in which the CTBUH recognizes outstanding tall buildings and design innovations that advance the potential of integrated sustainability in cities across the world. One winner is chosen from each of four geographical regions (Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa). The title of overall Best Tall Building Worldwide is then presented to one of the four regional winners. The CTBUH Innovation Award recognizes a specific area of recent innovation in the tall building industry that has been incorporated into the design of, or significantly tested in, the construction, operation, or refurbishment of a tall building project. The 10 Year Award recognizes proven value and performance (across one or more of a wide range of criteria) after a building has been complete and in operation for at least a decade. Additionally, the CTBUH awards two annual Lifetime Achievement awards to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the design or technical advancement of tall buildings. More than an awards book, this volume serves as a global overview of tall building construction and activity in a given year, providing in-depth description of the buildings' design and significance and accompanied by stunning images, detailed drawings and plans. The book also features the official current list of the "100 Tallest Buildings in the World" as the CTBUH is the internationally recognized official arbiter of tall building height. This book provides fascinating and inspiring reading for all those interested in the planning, design, and construction of tall buildings.

Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings - An output of the CTBUH Sustainability Working Group (Paperback,... Guide To Natural Ventilation in High Rise Office Buildings - An output of the CTBUH Sustainability Working Group (Paperback, New)
Antony Wood, Ruba Salib
R2,055 Discovery Miles 20 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tall buildings are not the only solution for achieving sustainability through increased density in cities but, given the scale of current population shifts, the vertical city is increasingly being seen as the most viable solution for many urban centers. However, the full implications of concentrating more people on smaller plots of land by building vertically - whether for work, residential or leisure functions - needs to be better researched and understood. It is generally accepted that we need to reduce the energy equation - in both operating and embodied terms - of every component and system in the building as an essential element in making it more sustainable. Mechanical HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) in tall office buildings typically account for 30-40 percent of overall building energy consumption. The increased efficiency (or possibly even elimination) of these mechanical systems - through the provision of natural ventilation - could thus be argued to be the most important single step we could make in making tall buildings more sustainable. This guide sets out recommendations for every phase of the planning, construction and operation of natural ventilation systems in these buildings, including local climatic factors that need to be taken into account, how to plan for seasonal variations in weather, and the risks in adopting different implementation strategies. All of the recommendations are based on analysis of the research findings from richly-illustrated international case studies. Tried and tested solutions to real-life problems make this an essential guide for anyone working on the design and operation of tall buildings anywhere in the world. This is the first technical guide from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Tall Buildings & Sustainability Working Group looking in depth at a key element in the creation of tall buildings with a much-reduced environmental impact, while taking the industry closer to an appreciation of what constitutes a sustainable tall building, and what factors affect the sustainability threshold for tall.

Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings - Theory, Design Guidance and Case Studies (Paperback): Alberto Lago, Dario Trabucco,... Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings - Theory, Design Guidance and Case Studies (Paperback)
Alberto Lago, Dario Trabucco, Antony Wood
R4,722 R4,328 Discovery Miles 43 280 Save R394 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Damping Technologies for Tall Buildings provides practical advice on the selection, design, installation and testing of damping systems. Richly illustrated with images and schematics, this book presents expert commentary on different damping systems, giving readers a way to accurately compare between different device categories and gain and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. In addition, the book covers their economical and sustainability implications. Case studies are included to provide a direct understanding on the possible applications of each device category.

The Guest from the Future - Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin (Paperback, Cloth First Pub): Gyorgy Dalos, Gy Rgy Dalos The Guest from the Future - Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin (Paperback, Cloth First Pub)
Gyorgy Dalos, Gy Rgy Dalos; Translated by Antony Wood
R575 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R102 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.

For Akhmatova, Berlin was a "guest from the future," her ideal reader outside the nightmare of Soviet life and a link with a lost Russian world; he became a figure in her cryptic masterpiece "Poem without a Hero." For Berlin, this "most memorable" meeting with the beautiful poet of genius was a spur to his ideas on liberty and on history. But there were tragic consequences: the Soviet authorities thought Berlin was a British spy, Akhmatova became a suspected enemy, and until her death in 1966 the KGB persecuted her family. Though Akhmatova was convinced that she and Berlin had inadvertently started the Cold War, she remembered him gratefully and he inspired some of her finest poems.
György Dalos--who inteviewed Berlin and many others who knew Akhmatova well, and who examined hitherto-secret KGB and Poliburo files--tells the inside story of how Stalin and other Soviet leaders dealt with Akhmatova. He ends with the touching story of her posthumous rehabilitation, when Russians astronomers discovered a new star and name it after her.

Selected Poetry (Paperback): Alexander Pushkin Selected Poetry (Paperback)
Alexander Pushkin; Translated by Antony Wood 1
R401 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R75 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020 Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.

The Uncensored ""Boris Godunov - The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation (Hardcover):... The Uncensored ""Boris Godunov - The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation (Hardcover)
Chester Dunning, Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, Antony Wood
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Boris Godunov is the most fascinating and problematic of all of Pushkin's texts. The story of The Uncensored Boris Godunov is really a kind of detective novel: why the earlier draft has not been preferred by Pushkin scholars, why perhaps it should be, and how history proper and literary history in particular have clouded the issue of what could have been the definitive text.

Ratcatcher (Paperback): Tsvetaeva Ratcatcher (Paperback)
Tsvetaeva
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Out of stock

Ignored upon its publication in 1926 in a Russian-emigre periodical, Marina Tsvetaeva's extraordinary narrative poem The Ratcatcher is today deemed by critics and readers to be the zenith of her impressive oeuvre. Written in Prague and Paris in the mid- 1920s and now available in the United States for the first time, The Ratcatcher is at once a paean to literary tradition and a scathing attack on the materialistic, unspiritual lifestyle embraced by post-Bolshevik Russia.

The Ratcatcher retells the legend of the German town of Hamlin, which in the year 1284 was so badly overrun by rats that the Burgomaster promised a large sum of money (and his daughter's hand in marriage) to anyone who could remove them. A colorfully dressed wandering piper lured all the rats away and drowned them in a nearby river. When the reward was refused him, he returned to the town and lured away all the children (and the Burgomaster's adult daughter), disappearing with them into the side of a mountain.

Filled with irony and cloaked in satire, The Ratcatcher brims with the tension between the artist and the philistine, energy and sloth, honesty and hypocrisy, the naked and the overdressed -- a condemnation of the qualities Tsvetaeva felt were embodied by Russia's ex-revolutionaries, who in her opinion had grown as prosperous as the bourgeoisie they ousted. The Ratcatcher has been called "the angriest celebration of music ever written".

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Aqualine Back Float (Yellow and Blue)
R277 Discovery Miles 2 770
Harry Potter Wizard Wand - In…
 (3)
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, … DVD R53 Discovery Miles 530
Chicco Anti-Mosquito Natural Perfumed…
R40 Discovery Miles 400
Pink Fresh Couture by Moschino EDT 100ml…
R1,458 Discovery Miles 14 580
Elecstor GU-10 5W Rechargeable LED Bulb…
R69 R59 Discovery Miles 590
Mediabox NEO TV Stick (Black) - Netflix…
R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890
Bullsh!t - 50 Fibs That Made South…
Jonathan Ancer Paperback  (2)
R270 R180 Discovery Miles 1 800
Bestway Dolphin Armbands (23 x 15cm…
R33 R31 Discovery Miles 310
South African Family Law
Paperback  (5)
R1,015 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950

 

Partners