Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses

David Kincaid “Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses”
Taylor & Francis | 2002-12-31 | ISBN: 0419235701 | 120 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

This book provides guidance for professionals on the potential for and management of building refurbishment for change of use. Change of use refurbishment activity is becoming increasingly important as changing work patterns and IT reduce the space demands for offices and industrial buildings in cities where social and environmental concerns give significant demand for urban housing. The key issues and opportunities of adaptive reuse must be better understood by investors, marketers, potential users, regulators and the construction industry generally, as the era dominated by the development of new commercial buildings comes to an end in the West.

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Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses

David Kincaid “Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses”
Taylor & Francis | 2002-12-31 | ISBN: 0419235701 | 120 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

This book provides guidance for professionals on the potential for and management of building refurbishment for change of use. Change of use refurbishment activity is becoming increasingly important as changing work patterns and IT reduce the space demands for offices and industrial buildings in cities where social and environmental concerns give significant demand for urban housing. The key issues and opportunities of adaptive reuse must be better understood by investors, marketers, potential users, regulators and the construction industry generally, as the era dominated by the development of new commercial buildings comes to an end in the West.

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Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture

Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore

Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-11-29
ISBN:1402065906
Number of pages: 362
Format: PDF
Size: 1.2 Mb
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Book Description:
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
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Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture

Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore

Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-11-29
ISBN:1402065906
Number of pages: 362
Format: PDF
Size: 1.2 Mb
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Book Description:
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on architectural and environmental designing. These essays are preceded by an introductory text structuring the field of philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture as one in which a series of similar philosophical, societal and ethical questions are asked. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing. The emerging discipline of designing socio-technical systems is shown to form an intermediate between engineering and architecture to which the philosophical and ethical analyses of both domains apply. This volume thus announces a challenging cross-fertilization between the philosophy and ethics of engineering and of architecture that will lay down the integrated ground works for the renewed interests in the importance of design in modern society.
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Risk Management and Construction

Roger Flanagan, George Norman “Risk Management and Construction"
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 1993-08-27
ISBN: 0632028165
Number of pages: 224
Format: PDF
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The construction industry is subject to more risk and uncertainty than perhaps any other industry. Yet, surprisingly, managerial techniques used to identify, analyse and respond to risk were not applied in the industry until the 80's. Existing texts deal with the theoretical concepts of risk and the techniques that identify and manage it. This book provides a set of tools that enable these management techniques to be put into practice in the construction industry.
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