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Race for sustainability : energy, economy, environment and ethics / by Hickson, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Building hopes beyond green buildings -- section 4. The sun shines on renewables -- section 5. …”
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Facilities management managing maintenance for buildings and facilities / by Levitt, Joel, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Introducing the author -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to facilities management -- The job of the facilities manager -- Building safety -- Building security -- Disaster and disaster recovery -- Lean maintenance for buildings -- Green buildings, LEED, and energy savings -- Legal contracts in facility management -- Contracting -- Building handbook and maintenance manual -- In-house maintenance and building crews -- Purchasing and stocking materials -- Computerization -- Other technology systems -- Budgeting for maintenance of buildings, facilities, and equipment -- Maintenance fitness questionnaire -- Let's get maintenance organized! …”
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Facilities management managing maintenance for buildings and facilities / by Levitt, Joel, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Introducing the author -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to facilities management -- The job of the facilities manager -- Building safety -- Building security -- Disaster and disaster recovery -- Lean maintenance for buildings -- Green buildings, LEED, and energy savings -- Legal contracts in facility management -- Contracting -- Building handbook and maintenance manual -- In-house maintenance and building crews -- Purchasing and stocking materials -- Computerization -- Other technology systems -- Budgeting for maintenance of buildings, facilities, and equipment -- Maintenance fitness questionnaire -- Let's get maintenance organized! …”
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Frontiers of engineering reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2011 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction [Additive manufacturing] -- Additive manufacturing technologies: technology introduction and business implications -- Additive manufacturing in aerospace: examples and research outlook --- Additive manufacturing is changing surgery -- The shape of things to come: frontiers in additive manufacturing -- Introduction [Semantic processing] -- Automatic text understanding of content and text quality -- Advancing natural language understanding with collaboratively generated content -- Large-scale visual semantic extraction -- Searching for statistical diagrams -- Introduction [Engineering-sustainable buildings] -- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon buildings -- Expanding design spaces -- Opportunities and challenges for multiscale modeling of sustainable buildings -- Accelerating green building market transformation with information technology -- Introduction [Neuroprosthetics] -- Retinal prosthetic systems for treatment of blindness -- The evolution of brain-computer interfaces -- Ultra low-power biomedical and bio-inspired systems.…”
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Frontiers of engineering reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2011 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction [Additive manufacturing] -- Additive manufacturing technologies: technology introduction and business implications -- Additive manufacturing in aerospace: examples and research outlook --- Additive manufacturing is changing surgery -- The shape of things to come: frontiers in additive manufacturing -- Introduction [Semantic processing] -- Automatic text understanding of content and text quality -- Advancing natural language understanding with collaboratively generated content -- Large-scale visual semantic extraction -- Searching for statistical diagrams -- Introduction [Engineering-sustainable buildings] -- Challenges and opportunities for low-carbon buildings -- Expanding design spaces -- Opportunities and challenges for multiscale modeling of sustainable buildings -- Accelerating green building market transformation with information technology -- Introduction [Neuroprosthetics] -- Retinal prosthetic systems for treatment of blindness -- The evolution of brain-computer interfaces -- Ultra low-power biomedical and bio-inspired systems.…”
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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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Policies, programs and people that shape innovation in housing / by Sanderford, Andrew, McCoy, Andrew P., Koebel, C. Theodore, Martin, Carlos Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…Innovating the house -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Green building technology diffusion -- References --…”
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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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10th Nordic conference on construction economics and organization /

Table of Contents: “…: a structural analysis -- Quality evaluation of contractor's schedule in the bidding phase -- Activity cruciality as measure of network schedule structure resilience -- Construction programmes and programming: a critical review -- Procurement research: current state and future challenges in the Nordic countries -- Exploitative learning in inter-organizational projects: evidence from dutch infrastructure practices -- The transition from design-bid-build contracts to design-build -- Exploring the dynamics of supplier innovation diffusion -- Understanding collaborative working in a facilitated interdisciplinary environment -- Ensuring successful knowledge transfer in building renovation projects -- Public private collaboration in the context of zero emission neighbourhood -- Strategizing and project management in construction projects: an exploratory literature review -- Building information, data and digitalization -- BIM-enabled education: A systematic literature review -- A BIM-enabled learning environment: a conceptual framework -- "I work all day with automation in construction: I am a sociomaterial-designer" -- Developing smart services to smart campus -- An overview of BIM adoption in the construction industry: benefits and barriers -- BIM for construction education: initial findings from a literature review -- Model for smart, self-learning and adaptive resilience building -- Investigating the drop-out rate from a BIM course -- Innovations in the construction process -- Senior residence concepts in Norway: challenges and actions for a sustainable development -- 3D-printing technology in construction: results from a survey -- Product and manufacturing systems alignment: a case study in the timber house building industry -- Opening the black box of accessibility regulation -- Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Social sustainability in modelling of value creation in housing refurbishment -- Reviewing the role of sustainability professionals in construction -- Exploring the evolution and impact of building environment assessment methods in achieving green building -- Stakeholders of construction and real estate -- Challenging the rhetoric of construction briefing: insights from a formula 1 sports venue -- Underlying causes for risk taking behaviour among construction workers -- Towards developing a framework for user-driven innovation in refurbishment -- Reconstructing knowledge integration in the Norwegian AEC-industry -- Institutional complexity for Chinese international contractors -- Built environments -- BIM related innovation in healthcare precinct design and facilities management -- Location is crucial in retrofit: strategy selection in different regions -- Construction education and research -- From theoretical to practical competence on health and safety -- A test platform of viable methods to improve production and learning on construction sites.…”
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Policies, programs and people that shape innovation in housing / by Sanderford, Andrew, McCoy, Andrew P., Koebel, C. Theodore, Martin, Carlos Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…Innovating the house -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Green building technology diffusion -- References --…”
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The CSI construction product representation practice guide

Table of Contents: “…Sustainability 12.3 Domestic (US and Canadian) 'Green' Building Rating Systems 12.4 Owner 12.5. Energy Performance and Conservation 12.6. …”
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The CSI construction product representation practice guide

Table of Contents: “…Sustainability 12.3 Domestic (US and Canadian) 'Green' Building Rating Systems 12.4 Owner 12.5. Energy Performance and Conservation 12.6. …”
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Soft magnetic materials : selected, peer reviewed paper [i.e. papers] from 2011 International Conference on Soft Magnetic Materials (ICSMM 2011) on May 23-24, in Male, Maldives /

Table of Contents: “…Cai -- Application of Attapulgite Clay Mineral Modified by Flame Retarder in Green Building Materials / J.N. Chen -- Stable Antiferromagnetism of Orthorhombic BiCrO3 under Pressure: a Theoretical Study / Y.J. …”
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Soft magnetic materials : selected, peer reviewed paper [i.e. papers] from 2011 International Conference on Soft Magnetic Materials (ICSMM 2011) on May 23-24, in Male, Maldives /

Table of Contents: “…Cai -- Application of Attapulgite Clay Mineral Modified by Flame Retarder in Green Building Materials / J.N. Chen -- Stable Antiferromagnetism of Orthorhombic BiCrO3 under Pressure: a Theoretical Study / Y.J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view