
Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings
- 1st Edition - April 12, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Author: Riadh Habash
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 8 2 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 6 4 0 - 3
Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings presents a comprehensive roadmap for designing and constructing high-performance clean energy-efficient buildings, including… Read more
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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.
- Describes the basic elements of building a digital ecosystem, along with informatics-driven performance architecture
- Features various models used in the design of controllers for major systems such as HVAC and lighting
- Explores the notion of building bioelectromagnetics to ensure health and safety from human exposure to EM fields
1 Building as a system
1.1 Sustainability by closing the loop
1.2 Intelligence for sustainability and health
1.3 Hierarchy of buildings development
1.4 Duality of sustainability and health
1.5 Building as a responsive and adaptive system
1.6 Building as a human-cyber-physical system (HCPS)
1.7 Resilience and systems thinking
1.8 Programs, standards, and rating systems
2 Building as a living system
2.1 Building as a living organism
2.2 Foundations of healthy buildings
2.3 Indoor air quality
2.4 Healthy ventilation
2.5 Thermal comfort
2.6 Acoustic comfort
2.7 Visual comfort
2.8 Water quality
2.9 Electromagnetic safety
2.10 Safety and security
3 Building as an energy system
3.1 Energy efficiency through a sustainability lens
3.2 Bioclimatic architecture
3.3 Life-cycle energy consumption
3.4 Distributed energy resources
3.5 Energy storage systems
3.6 Building as a charging station
3.7 Electrification and decarbonization
3.8 Electricity in buildings
3.9 Electrical load estimation
3.10 Clean electricity
3.11 Switching between AC and DC
4 Building as a smart system
4.1 Sustainability through smartness and intelligence
4.2 Electrical grid
4.3 Smart building loads
4.4 Grid-interactive efficient buildings
4.5 Smart load management strategies
4.6 5G digital ecosystem
4.7 High-performance wireless
4.8 Tactile internet
4.9 Internet-of-things
4.10 Wireless sensor and actuator networks
4.11 Internet of energy
4.12 Smart urban mobility
4.13 Net-zero energy buildings
5 Building as a human-cyber-physical system
5.1 Digital transformation
5.2 Digital sustainability
5.3 User experience
5.4 Ambient intelligent architecture
5.5 Computational intelligence
5.6 Big data
5.7 Artificial IoT
5.8 Building as a human-cyber-physical platform
5.9 Building information modeling
5.10 BIM-digital twin-driven sustainable design
5.11 Surveillance and privacy
5.12 Security in human-cyber-physical systems
5.13 BIM, digital twin, and blockchain
6 Building as a control system
6.1 Control systems engineering
6.2 Thermal modeling approaches
6.3 Analog control systems
6.4 Digital control systems
6.5 Adaptive control systems
6.6 Intelligent control systems
6.7 Building automation and control systems
6.8 HVAC control
6.9 Lighting control
6.10 Research trends
7 Building as a bioelectromagnetics ecosystem
7.1 Nonionizing electromagnetic fields
7.2 Interaction mechanisms
7.3 Safety standards and protection guidelines
7.4 Electromagnetic living environment
7.5 Biological and health effects
7.6 Electromagnetic safety in the built environment
7.7 Design for minimum exposure
7.8 Electromagnetic risk management
8 Building as a hygiene system
8.1 Historically thinking
8.2 Infectious disease outbreaks
8.3 Routes of transmission
8.4 Infection control strategies
8.5 Design considerations for indoor air quality
8.6 Environmental electromagnetic disinfection
8.7 Pandemic intelligent solutions
9 Urbanization as an intelligent system
9.1 Urban history
9.2 Urban intelligence
9.3 Urban sustainability
9.4 Urban health
9.5 Urban adaptability
9.6 Urban therapy
9.7 Urban knowledge
9.8 Intelligence for pandemic response
9.9 Intelligence for postpandemic experience
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 12, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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