Overview
- Presents leading-edge research at the intersection of Sustainability, Ecology, Engineering, and Design
- Energy, building performance and physics research is examined within the context of health, life quality and ecology
- Includes coverage of energy efficiency, modeling energy performance, retrofitting, lighting, green materials, low-carbon building design, lean construction and historical preservation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 papers)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability and the Policy Landscape
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Sustainability and Technology
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Surveying, Measuring and Modelling
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Measuring
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Mohammad Dastbaz is Dean of Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology and Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University. Professor Dastbaz’s research work over recent years has been focused on the use and impact of emerging technologies in society, particularly learning, training and the development of “eGovernment.” Dr. Dastbaz has led EU and UK based funded research projects and has been the Symposium Chair of Multimedia Systems in IEEE’s Information Visualisation (IV) conference since 2002. He has over 50 refereed publications, including numerous journal paper articles, conference papers, book chapters and books on e-learning, eGovernment, and the design and development of Multimedia Systems. Professor Dastbaz is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and UK’s Higher Education Academy as well as the professional member of ACM and IEEE’s computer society.
Dr. Christopher Gorse is Director of Leeds Sustainability Institute, Head of the Centre for the Built Environment and Professor of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Beckett University. He is an Engineering Professors Council Member, Chartered Builder, Vice Chair for the Association of Researchers In Construction Management leading research projects in the energy, sustainability and building performance. Chris is an established author with publications in management, law, construction and refurbishment. While working in the construction industry, he operated as an engineer and project manager working on both building and civil engineering projects and continues to undertake legal and technical consultancy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design
Book Subtitle: Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS)
Editors: Mohammad Dastbaz, Chris Gorse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32646-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32645-0Published: 20 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81337-0Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32646-7Published: 19 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 389
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 114 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Building Construction and Design, Sustainable Development