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Green Construction Project Management and Cost Oversight walks the reader through each phase of the project, offering invaluable guidance on selecting markets, rating sites, choosing construction professionals, raising capital, understanding financing options, and mastering cash flow management. This book is a practical reader-friendly guide directly targeting and addressing the needs of the construction industry, as well as private and instit...

Urban design as a form of place making has become a significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy, and professional practice. Suitable for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design, including crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject.

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility? Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to...

Best practice is the concern of this book. An architect has to be an administrator as well as designer, and smooth economical administration will provide the conditions under which client relations can be constructive and good design can be acheived. The book is divided into 76 short sections covering the entire process, from preliminary enquiries to final fees, each with a small flow chart showing who is involved and when. This sixth revised ...

Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially.Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique ar...

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The design and construction of tall buildings has taken a global upswing, with the incomplete Burj Dubai already the world's tallest building and projects started or on the boards for the 150-story Chicago Spire. This title offers readers with an insight into the tall buildings rating and awards criteria.

With over 90, 000 workers in the water environment industry and technological developments rapidly advancing understanding in this area, water has become one of the most important issues of our time. Career scope for those working in the water and wastewater engineering sphere is expanding. This accessible student textbook introduces the reader to the key concepts of water technology by explaining the fundamentals of hydrobiology, aquatic ecos...