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Eco-Resorts: Planning and Design for the Tropics

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Eco-Resorts: Planning and Design for the Tropics

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Eco-Resorts is the first design guide for low-impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and meet the needs and expectations of the client and building inhabitants.

The Ecology of Building Materials, Second Edition

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The Ecology of Building Materials, Second Edition

The Ecology of Building Materials explores key questions surrounding sustainability of building materials. With legislation such as the Code for Sustainable Homes being introduced to regulate the required sustainability of new builds, it is essential that sustainability starts with the raw materials of a project. The book provides technical data to enable architects to choose the most appropriate sustainable materials for a project, as well as providing information and guidance on a wide range of issues such as recycling, Life Cycle Analysis, and manufacturers’ environmental claims.

RF Front-End: World Class Designs

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RF Front-End: World Class Designs

Book Description
It all starts with a design…this next book in the World Class Designs Series takes the best of our RF Front End design material and creates a singular guide and catalyst for future projects!

Building Services Handbook, Fifth Edition: Incorporating Current Building & Construction Regulations

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Building Services Handbook, Fifth Edition: Incorporating Current Building & Construction Regulations

Building Services Handbook summarises the application of all common elements of building services practice, technique and procedure, to provide an essential information resource for students as well as practitioners working in building services, building management and the facilities administration and maintenance sectors of the construction industry. Information is presented in the highly illustrated and accessible style of the best-selling companion title Building Construction Handbook.

Temples of the Earthbound Gods

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Temples of the Earthbound Gods

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In Rio de Janeiro, the spiritual home of world football, and Buenos Aires, where a popular soccer club president was recently elected mayor, the game is an integral part of national identity. Using the football stadium as an illuminating cultural lens, Temples of the Earthbound Gods examines many aspects of urban culture that play out within these monumental architectural forms, including spirituality, violence, rigid social norms, anarchy, and also expressions of sexuality and gender.

Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 2 – Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

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Sustainable Solar Housing: Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies

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* * An auspicious and comprehensive two-volume treatment of current solar energy strategies and technologies employed in buildings

* * Offers the reader a solid platform for assessing environmental and economic concerns for housing projects, and offers guidance on implementing the most appropriate course of action