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Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings
Presents updates on the integration of intelligence, health, well-being and sustainability in built environments
Riadh Habash (Author)
9780323988261, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 12 April 2022
284 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 1 kg
Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings presents a comprehensive roadmap for designing and constructing high-performance clean energy-efficient buildings, including intelligence capabilities underpinned by smart power, 5G and Internet-of-Things technologies, environmental sensors, intelligent control strategies and cyber-physical security. This book includes a special emphasis on health pandemic resiliency that discusses strong engineering control strategies to respond and recover from infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the foundational aspects of healthy buildings, with a special emphasis on assessing indoor environmental qualities. In addition, it introduces the necessary principles that assist engineers and researchers in understanding and designing buildings that meet health and sustainability goals.
1. Building as a system 2. Building as a living system 3. Building as an energy system 4. Building as a smart system 5. Building as a human-cyber-physical system 6. Building as a control system 7. Building as a bioelectromagnetics ecosystem 8. Building as a hygiene system 9. Urbanization as an intelligent system
Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN], Materials science [TGM]